Product Senior Director, Discovery & Engagement

FanDuel

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New York City, NY - USA

profile Monthly Salary: $ 186000 - 256300
Posted on: Yesterday
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

FanDuel is seeking a Senior Director of Product Discovery & Engagement to provide vision direction and strategic leadership to our Discovery and Engagement efforts within the Sportsbook. This role is accountable for defining and executing product strategy across multiple domains ensuring tight alignment to broader Business Unit and FanDuel-level objectives while balancing near-term delivery with long-term innovation.

As a Senior Director you will operate as a portfolio owner and strategic leader not just a people manager. You will oversee multiple product teams and leaders guide investment and prioritization decisions across initiatives of varying risk and horizon and ensure that customer insight market dynamics and technology considerations are deeply embedded in roadmap and execution decisions.

You will be a visible and trusted leader across Product Technology Commercial and Executive teamsclearly communicating product strategy risk posture and innovation plans and influencing decisions to drive the right outcomes for the business and our customers. This role requires strong judgment systems thinking and the ability to scale product excellence through others.

Success in this role means creating clarity where there is ambiguity aligning teams around a shared vision and ensuring FanDuel delivers differentiated customer-centric experiences at scaletoday and over the long term.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

Strategic Leadership & Vision

  • Own and evolve the product vision and strategy across multiple domains ensuring alignment to Business Unit objectives and FanDuels broader enterprise strategy.
  • Provide strategic oversight of the product portfolio balancing short-term vs long-term investments high- vs low-risk initiatives and innovation vs operational excellence.
  • Ensure product strategy roadmaps and investment decisions are consistently grounded in customer insight market dynamics industry trends and available technologies including informed build-vs-buy decisions.
  • Clearly articulate product strategy priorities and tradeoffs to senior executives and cross-functional leaders influencing decisions and driving alignment across the organization.

Customer Insight & Market Leadership

  • Champion the voice of the customer across verticals and domains ensuring customer needs pain points and behaviors meaningfully shape strategy and execution.
  • Hold teams accountable for high-quality research practices providing constructive feedback on research plans synthesis and how insights are translated into product decisions.
  • Leverage insights from adjacent industries and external markets translating learnings into differentiated product opportunities for FanDuel.
  • Ensure analytics experimentation and customer research are consistently embedded across teams as core decision-making inputs.

Product Delivery & Portfolio Management

  • Ensure execution and investment across the product portfolio align to strategic priorities expected outcomes and agreed funding models.
  • Oversee execution across multiple teams and workstreams ensuring clarity of ownership disciplined prioritization and effective dependency management.
  • Set clear expectations for outcome-driven delivery holding teams accountable for measurable impact rather than output.
  • Partner with Product Technology and Commercial leadership to proactively manage risk sequencing and tradeoffs across the portfolio.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Executive Communication

  • Build and maintain strong partnerships with senior leaders across Product Technology Commercial and other key functions to deliver shared outcomes.
  • Clearly communicate product portfolio strategy risk profile and innovation plans to product peers and senior executive stakeholders.
  • Act as a trusted thought partner to executives shaping decisions through data-informed perspectives sound judgment and strategic recommendations.
  • Influence across the organization without relying on formal authority aligning diverse stakeholders around shared goals and priorities.

Team Leadership & Organizational Impact

  • Provide oversight across multiple product teams and leaders ensuring alignment between individual team goals domain strategy and broader company roadmaps.
  • Lead and develop senior product leaders who themselves manage multiple teams scaling impact through strong delegation coaching and accountability.
  • Establish and evangelize a clear product vision and operating model across vertical or horizontal areas driving consistency while enabling autonomy.
  • Act as a go-to leader and subject matter expert for the domain providing strategic insight direction and perspective across the company.
  • Foster a culture of high ownership strong judgment customer empathy and continuous learning across the product organization.

THE STATS
What were looking for in our next teammate

  • Proven experience operating as a Director Senior Director or equivalent senior product management leader owning strategy and outcomes across multiple teams domains or a significant product portfolio.
  • 10 years of product management experience with demonstrated progression into senior leadership roles responsible for strategy execution and organizational impact.
  • Strong track record of leading leadersincluding hiring coaching and developing senior product managers and product leaders who themselves manage teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to define and scale product strategy balancing short-term delivery with long-term vision and translating strategy into clear roadmaps and investment decisions.
  • Deep experience partnering with Engineering Design and Commercial leadership to drive complex cross-functional initiatives and manage portfolio-level tradeoffs.
  • Strong judgment and fluency in customer research analytics experimentation and market analysis using evidence to inform strategy and executive decision-making.
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities balancing scope resourcing risk and time horizons at portfolio scale.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous high-stakes environments providing clarity direction and decisiveness when information is incomplete.
  • Recognized as a trusted executive partner able to clearly communicate strategy risk and outcomes to senior leaders and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
  • Experience and/or passion for sports betting iGaming or adjacent regulated high-scale consumer businesses strongly preferred.
  • Bachelors degree or similar higher-level education preferred

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: Americas #1 Sportsbook FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform FanDuel Casino; the industrys unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.

In addition FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states Canada and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles Atlanta and Jersey City as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The companys affiliates have offices worldwide including in Ireland Portugal Romania and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment the worlds largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning mental health support and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave) annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance) 401k with up to a 5% match commuter benefits pet insurance and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location role and level.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe as one of our principles states We are One Team!. As such we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ethnicity ancestry religion creed sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity gender expression veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued respected and included.

FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please email.

The applicable salary range for this position is $186000 - $256300 USD which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience location business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical vision and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation including but not limited to cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

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