Senior Product Manager, Studio Team

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership teamwork responsibility and confidence important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches parents and volunteers organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community building potential or building cool products is your sport GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first dynamic tech company based in New York City and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

GameChanger is launching a Studio team a small fast-moving group whose job is to answer one question: is this opportunity worth pursuing Partnering with our Strategy team the Studio takes new and emerging business ideas like expanding into a new sport or entering an international market and rapidly validates them with real customers. This lets us commit to the right bets faster and stop sitting on promising ideas because we lack evidence.

As the founding product manager on this team youll pair with a designer to run focused validation sprints. Unlike a traditional product management role your output isnt a shipped feature or a roadmap of releases. Its confidence: a clear evidence-backed recommendation on whether an opportunity deserves deeper investment and handoff to a product team or whether we should walk away and move on to the next idea. Youll operate more like a founder than a feature owner with no large embedded team behind you pulling in partners from User Research Strategy Data & Analytics Product Engineering and beyond when the work demands it. You will report directly to our SVP of Product.

Opportunity framing: Partner with the Strategy team to translate emerging business ideas into sharp testable hypotheses. Define the riskiest assumptions what validated looks like and what evidence would change our minds before any work begins.

Validation sprints: Run the Studios operating cadence with your design partner. Scope each sprint tightly choose the fastest credible path to an answer and keep the team moving instead of polishing.

Market and business analysis: Size opportunities model potential business cases analyze competitive and market dynamics and pressure-test whether an idea can work commercially not just whether customers like it.

Customer evidence: Get in front of real coaches players families and prospective customers alongside your designer whether that means surveys interviews onsite ethnographic research demand tests or prototypes in market.

Recommendations: Synthesize customer evidence and business analysis into crisp go/no-go recommendations for leadership including the honest recommendation to not pursue something. Package validated opportunities for a smooth handoff to a product team to build.

Team building: Help define how the Studio operates. As a founding member youll shape the playbook the sprint cadence the decision framework and the standard for what enough confidence means.

Leverage AI: Use AI tools aggressively across research synthesis analysis and prototyping support so a two-person team can evaluate far more than its size suggests.

• 5 years of experience managing technology products with a focus on mobile or consumer products ideally including 0-to-1 work such as early-stage startups new product incubation or founding a company of your own.

• A strategic business-minded thinker. Youre as comfortable sizing a market and building a lightweight business case as you are talking to customers and you care as much about whether we should pursue something as how we would.

• Entrepreneurial self-motivated and a doer. You dont wait for a mandate a researcher or an analyst. You figure out the fastest path to an answer and go get it yourself.

• Comfortable being on a bit of an island. You thrive with high autonomy and ambiguity and you proactively pull in collaborators rather than waiting for a team to form around you.

• Experienced with data-informed decision-making and capable of running your own analysis to size opportunities and interpret experiment results.

• Skilled at customer discovery. You can plan recruit for and conduct interviews and lightweight research without a dedicated research team.

• A strong communicator who can distill messy ambiguous findings into a clear narrative recommendation and tradeoffs for executives and who builds relationships and influence across all levels of the organization.

• Intellectually honest. Youre motivated by finding the truth about an opportunity not by making every idea look like a winner and youre comfortable recommending we kill something you worked hard on.

• Fluent with (or hungry to master) AI tools for research analysis and rapid prototyping and excited about how they let a small team punch far above its weight.

• Knowledgeable about (or passionate about learning) sports and the communities around them.

• Youve founded or worked at an early-stage startup or on an incubation venture or new bets team.

• Experience evaluating international expansion or entirely new market opportunities.

• Background in strategy consulting or corporate development that sharpened your market analysis and business modeling skills.

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished modern office in Manhattan NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend - $4000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Monthly physical mental wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.

• Full health benefits - medical dental vision prescription FSA HRA HSA and coverage for family/dependents.

• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard with an immediate company match.

• Life insurance - basic life supplemental life and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

• Family building benefits offered through Progyny.

• DICKS Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

The target salary range for this position is between $160000 and $180000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive equity and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience internal pay equity and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

* DICKS Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place we are unable to hire in AK DE HI IA LA MS MT OK and SC.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @ or If you receive communication from any other domain please be cautious as it is likely fraudulent.

Required Experience:

Senior IC