Lead, Real-Time Sports Data & API Platform

Jobtailor; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in California is seeking an accomplished Senior Product Manager to own the product strategy and quarterly roadmap for sports data delivery and insights. You will shape live data pipelines, APIs, and downstream integrations supporting fan-facing and business-critical use cases.

Collaborate with engineering on architecture for real-time and near-real-time systems, manage vendor relationships, and ensure data governance and SLAs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience in data-driven platforms.
• Strong knowledge of sports data ecosystems, live data feeds, betting markets, and workflows.
• Technical fluency to partner with engineering on APIs, integrations, and data architecture.
• Hands-on experience with APIs and data integrations (Postman and endpoints testing).
• Experience managing third-party vendors and data providers.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and quarterly roadmap execution for sports data delivery and insights capabilities.
• Define product requirements for live data pipelines, APIs, and downstream integrations that support fan-facing and business-critical use cases.
• Partner with engineering on architecture, sequencing, and tradeoffs across real-time and near-real-time systems.
• Lead vendor and data-provider relationships, including integration planning, issue resolution, and quality management.
• Drive alignment across analytics, product, editorial, commercial, and operations teams to meet performance and business needs.

Skills

Product Management

Sports Data Ecosystem

API & Data Integration

Vendor Management

Real-Time Data Systems

Data Governance

Analytics Background

Streaming Architectures

API Testing

Tools

Postman

Job description

Jobtailor in California is seeking an accomplished Senior Product Manager to own the product strategy and quarterly roadmap for sports data delivery and insights. You will shape live data pipelines, APIs, and downstream integrations supporting fan-facing and business-critical use cases.

Collaborate with engineering on architecture for real-time and near-real-time systems, manage vendor relationships, and ensure data governance and SLAs.