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Fanatics

China-based licensed sports merchandise retailer

Senior Principal Product Manager

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNew York, NY, USA$250k - $320kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • 12–15 years of product management experience, including ownership of large-scale, high-impact digital platforms.
  • Demonstrated experience shaping multi-year product strategy with measurable commercial impact.
  • Proven ability to lead senior product leaders and influence across multiple domains or verticals.
  • Strong enterprise thinking, balancing innovation, risk management, scalability, and operational performance.
  • Exceptional executive communication and storytelling skills, with experience influencing C-level stakeholders.
  • Deep experience in high-frequency, high-scale transactional environments.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve a mission-critical area of the customer experience, while ensuring that strategy, execution, and product quality standards scale across multiple teams and adjacent domains.
  • Partner with executive leadership to shape long-term direction, investment priorities, and competitive positioning, while ensuring operational excellence across high-scale transactional systems.
  • Work with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Commercial, Data, and Operations to align product strategy with business objectives and long-term growth ambitions.
  • Define strategy and elevate standards across the organization, operating at both domain and enterprise levels.
  • Shape the multi-year vision for a core sportsbook experience, align it to 1-, 3-, and 5-year business objectives, and establish clear investment rationale across short- and long-term horizons.
  • Serve as the senior product authority for the domain, setting quality standards for customer experience, reliability, scalability, and commercial impact.
  • Influence portfolio-level prioritization decisions and align domain investments with enterprise strategy.
  • Prepare and lead executive-level forums that define direction, risk posture, innovation strategy, and measurable performance outcomes; advise on high-stakes decisions.
  • Oversee multiple senior product leaders and teams, ensuring effective delegation, clear accountability, and consistent execution across complex, interdependent systems.
  • Elevate product craft standards across teams by embedding best practices in discovery, experimentation, analytics, and outcome measurement.
  • Identify structural, capability, or organizational gaps and recommend improvements to increase product effectiveness.
  • Partner with Engineering leadership to ensure architectural decisions support long-term scalability, extensibility, and performance at enterprise scale.
  • Anticipate market shifts, competitive dynamics, and industry trends, translating them into forward-looking product opportunities.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in sports betting, gaming, fintech, ecommerce, or similarly complex digital ecosystems is strongly preferred.
  • Track record of elevating product standards, mentoring senior leaders, and strengthening organizational capability.

About the Company

Fanatics

China-based licensed sports merchandise retailer

Fanatics China is a joint venture between Fanatics Inc. and Hillhouse Capital that localizes and scales licensed sports merchandise for China. It designs, manufactures, and markets fan gear for Chinese consumers, operating a multi-channel model that includes building and running e-commerce sites for global leagues and teams, exploring online marketplaces, and developing physical retail concepts. Its product workflow combines technology, data, and on-demand manufacturing to manage the entire supply chain, enabling fast response to demand. The company differentiates itself through a China-focused approach backed by Hillhouse’s network and investments, its end-to-end vertical commerce model, and partnerships with hundreds of sports organizations, which together help it navigate China’s complex retail landscape. The goal is to satisfy a previously underserved Chinese market for licensed sports merchandise by creating localized products and channels that connect fans with official gear.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$5.2B
Headquarters
Huangpu, China
Founded
1995

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