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The National Football League

American football league with 32 teams

Vice President Product & Design

Full-Time
$225k - $325k
Expert
Inglewood, CA, USA
In PersonAt least 40 hours per week in the office; occasional travel to NFL meetings and events, including nights and weekends.
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • 15+ years of product management experience, including leadership roles in digital media, streaming, sports, technology, or subscription-based businesses.
  • Experience leading product organizations responsible for large-scale consumer digital platforms.
  • Demonstrated success delivering complex product roadmaps that drive measurable business outcomes.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams within highly matrixed environments.
  • Strong understanding of digital consumer experiences, content ecosystems, subscription products, and engagement platforms.
  • Experience leading Product, UX/UI, Design, or adjacent digital experience functions.
  • Proven track record collaboratively shaping and delivering product roadmaps that drive business outcomes across large-scale consumer digital platforms.
  • Demonstrated success delivering product roadmaps that support acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization objectives within DTC or subscription-led businesses.
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to collaborate effectively with Strategy leaders on revenue, customer value, and growth opportunities.
  • Strong experience operating in complex organizations and aligning cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet both business objectives and fan needs.
  • Executive communication capability to translate priorities, risks, tradeoffs, and performance into clear narratives tied to business goals.
  • Strong product judgment, creative instincts, and operational discipline, with a passion for delivering exceptional consumer experiences.
Responsibilities
  • Own the product roadmap for the NFL’s fan-facing product portfolio across web, app, connected television, identity, and subscription experiences.
  • Partner with Strategy & Growth to translate enterprise priorities and agreed business objectives into product roadmap decisions, prioritization, sequencing, and execution plans.
  • Lead short-term, seasonal, and multi-year product roadmap planning and sequencing, aligned to the broader long-range business plan and agreed investment priorities.
  • Establish product management practices that improve prioritization, execution quality, and organizational alignment.
  • Hold end-to-end accountability for product roadmap execution, sequencing, delivery excellence, experience quality, product operating cadence, and post-launch value optimization across the digital portfolio.
  • Translate agreed strategic priorities into delivered product outcomes that support business goals.
  • Partner with Strategy & Growth to define KPI frameworks, measurement processes, and post-launch evaluation methodologies.
  • Drive a culture of continuous improvement through experimentation, learning, and iteration.
  • Lead the Product and Design organizations responsible for creating engaging and intuitive fan experiences.
  • Establish experience standards and design principles across content discovery, viewing, personalization, subscription, and engagement journeys.
  • Ensure consistency and quality across all fan-facing experiences.
  • Partner with Technology to align product roadmaps with technical feasibility, platform architecture, capacity management, and release planning.
  • Partner with Strategy & Growth to translate agreed business objectives, priority fan segments, value propositions, and desired outcomes into product experiences.
  • Partner with Content and Marketing to ensure product experiences, content value, and marketing execution reinforce the broader strategy.
  • Build strong executive partnerships that improve decision making and organizational coordination.
  • Communicate tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Lead and develop a high-performing Product and Design organization.
  • Build team capabilities through coaching, succession planning, and talent development.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and product excellence.
  • Travel to key NFL meetings and events, including occasional nights and weekends, especially during the NFL season.
  • Work a minimum of 40 hours per week in the office.

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The National Football League

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The NFL organizes professional American football for 32 teams and runs a season that ends with the Super Bowl. It sets the schedule, enforces rules, coordinates playoffs, and distributes content worldwide through its centralized governance and media divisions. Its 32-team framework with shared revenue and standardized operations keeps franchises stable and competitive across the league. Its goal is to crown the Super Bowl champion, grow the sport globally, and maximize fan engagement and league revenue.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Inglewood, California

Founded

1920

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What believers are saying

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  • Flag football’s LA28 debut and Nex’s NFL FLAG Heroes broaden youth adoption.
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What critics are saying

  • Sunday Ticket antitrust appeal threatens a $14.1 billion judgment and bundled rights model.
  • Fox delayed renewal talks until 2028, exposing NFL to churn and pricing pressure.
  • A loss at the Ninth Circuit could unravel league-wide media bundling by 2027.

What makes The National Football League unique

  • NFL owns America’s only must-see weekly live sports inventory across 32 clubs.
  • NFL formalized LA28 promotion with IOC and IFAF on August 16, 2026.
  • NFL piloted OneCourt tactile broadcasts with Ticketmaster for blind fans in 2026.

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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