FOX Sports is the global innovator in sports production and we are looking to maintain our creative excellence in the digital world with the consumer products that we create for our customers.
At FOX Corporation, we write the software and build the products millions of sports and entertainment consumers choose to enjoy. Our strong product development team is expanding as the demand for digital entertainment continues to grow.
Now's your chance to get into the sports and entertainment industry while also advancing your technical skills.
Love sports? Love analyzing data to help create features enjoyed by millions of sports fans? Love working with talented and passionate development teams? Then this role is for you!
The Director, Technical Product Management position is responsible for analyzing data, evaluating options and creating the technical documentation the software development teams will use to created digital products. This position involves a mixture of individual and collaborative work.
You’ll be joining a growing team that’s passionate about sports and sports fans. You’re empowered to discover and deliver impactful solutions and drive the business.
Responsibilities:
- Data Analysis: Evaluate partner data offerings to pinpoint the most valuable data and determine the optimal ways to present the data to sports fans
- Research: Evaluate the competitive landscape to understand a problem from every angle
- Innovate: Generate exciting, unique ways to present information and solve problems
- Document: Author wireframes, data contracts, system designs, user stories, product briefs and more
- Ownership: Own feature delivery from conception to production release verification
- Collaborative Problem-Solving: Work closely with cross-functional teams to address technical challenges, ensuring optimal product performance and seamless user experiences
- Scalability and Reliability: Contribute to designing, optimizing, and maintaining systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and high availability, especially during high-traffic events
- Maintain and improve existing products incorporating feedback, metrics and analysis
- Participate in product brainstorming sessions
- Stay current on software development practices and the technology industry
- Stay current on sports products, topics and trends
Requirements:
- Detail oriented: Comprehensive problem-solving including edge case analysis, future proofing and maintainability
- Communication: Must be a strong communicator, both written and oral
- Technical focus: Go deep to comprehend technical workflows, documentation, conversations, etc.
- Self-Motivated: Hunger to be the best and a key cog in a very successful collection of teams
- Passion: Strong affinity for sports, statistics, data and interactive systems
- Innovative Mindset: A passion for exploring approaches to improve performance and elevate user experience.
- Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work effectively within a team, contributing ideas and solutions while valuing collective success.
- Continuous improvement: Willingness to adapt to evolving technologies and embrace learning opportunities
- API Fluency: Strong familiarity with reading and creating RESTful API
- FOX Tech is a globally distributed team; You’ll need to be open to attending occasional meetings and/or trouble shooting sessions outside your normal work hours.
- Significant experience with Postman, Swagger, Charles and similar tools
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web essentials
What we're really looking for is someone who...
- Takes great pride in authoring detailed analysis & documentation
- Strives for team efficiency and productivity
- Is excited to show new features to friends and family
- Is always looking to improve, learn from and share knowledge with his/her peers
- Evaluates project scope and provides accurate time estimates
- Consistently meets deadlines, anticipates issues and raises concerns early
- Solves problems without being asked
- Enjoys working with others
- Is flexible and open to feedback
- Enjoys designing software, talking about software and using software on all platforms and devices
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
At FOX, we foster a culture and environment where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent across our company. We live in a diverse world, with different ideas and different perspectives that come together to spark new ideas and make great things happen. That means reflecting the diversity of the world around us is critical to our company’s success. We ensure that our viewers, communities and employees feel heard, represented, and celebrated both on screen and off.
