Senior Manager, Gaming Product & Creator Programs

National Basketball Association (NBA); New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life/AD&D insurance

Short- and long-term disability

Fertility and family-forming assistant

Wellbeing allowance

Educational assistance

Mental health coaching/therapy

Tax advantaged accounts (HSA and FSA)

401(k) retirement plan

Time off: vacation, sick time, and个人日

Job summary

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is seeking a Senior Manager, Gaming Product & Creator Programs for the NBA Take-Two Media gaming team. You will invent competitions, formats, and experiences fans want to play and watch, and own Creator League end to end, designing creator events for operations and turning it into decision-ready decks.

You report to the Head of Gaming and your work goes live in front of an audience.

Qualifications

• 5–6 years across strategy, product, and creator or content programs.
• Fluency in sports, creators, and gaming; curiosity about the third.
• Original ideas about competition; bring examples.
• Excellent decks: land a messy problem in 3–5 slides with a clear story, POV, and actionable recommendation.
• End-to-end ownership: owned something start to finish, including what went wrong.

Responsibilities

• Own the gaming product roadmap; invent original competition concepts, formats, and creator events.
• Serve as product lead end to end for Creator League.
• Build decks for Head of Gaming and COO decisions.
• Decide which creators to build around across our programs.
• Be the resource for the sales team on questions about our gaming products.

Skills

Strategy & product

Creator programs

Deck presentations

End-to-end ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

About The Role

We’re hiring a Senior Manager, Gaming Product & Creator Programs for the gaming team at NBA Take-Two Media. You own gaming product, which means inventing the competitions, formats, and experiences our fans want to play in and watch. This is not another bracket where five players run 2K. We build creative ways for players, creators, and audiences to compete together, and you are the person who comes up with them. You also own the Creator League product end to end, design the creator events our operations team runs, and turn all of it into short, clear decks that get decisions made. You report to the Head of Gaming and your work goes live in front of an audience.

WORK OPTION: In Office

What You’ll Be Doing

• Gaming Product: Own the roadmap. Invent original competition concepts, formats, and creator events
• Creator League: Serve as product lead end to end
• Executive Communication: Build the decks that go to the Head of Gaming and COO
• Creator Talent Identification: Decide which creators we build around across our programs
• Sales Support: Serve as the resource for our sales team on any questions about our gaming products

What You Bring

• Experience: Five to six years across strategy, product, and creator or content programs
• Sports, Creators, and Gaming Fluency: Real instinct in at least two of the three and genuine curiosity about the third. You know which gaming creators are trending up, not just which ones are big
• Original Ideas About Competition: You watch a creator tournament, a game show, or a stunt format and immediately think about what you would have done differently. Bring examples
• Excellent Decks: Core to the job, not a side skill. You can land a messy problem in three to five slides with a clear story, a point of view, and a recommendation someone can act on
• End to End Ownership: You have owned something start to finish, including the parts that went wrong
• Comfort With Ambiguity: You decide with incomplete information and move fast

How This Role Works With The Team

You work alongside a program manager who handles project management, a league operations lead who owns competitive formats and rules, and external partners for creator management and broadcast production. Your job is judgment and ownership.

Salary Range

$115,000-$140,000

Job Posting Title

Supplemental Staff

Employment & Benefits

Employees currently are eligible to receive an annual discretionary performance bonus, awarded at the sole discretion of the Company and subject to any terms and conditions set by the Company.

Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company-sponsored employee benefit programs:

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life/AD&D insurance
• short- and long-term disability
• fertility and family-forming assistance
• wellbeing allowance
• educational assistance
• mental health coaching/therapy
• tax advantaged accounts such as HSA and healthcare/dependent care FSAs
• a 401(k) retirement plan
• time off benefits that include vacation, sick time, and personal days

We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.

The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.

About The NBA

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2024-25 season featured a record-tying 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness.