About the role and why it’s unique:

As the Manager of Product Analytics on the Data team, you’ll play a crucial role in driving data-informed product decisions that will shape the future of our fantasy sports and online sportsbook products. You will lead a team of skilled product analysts, manage cross-functional projects, and be a strategic partner in product development. Your insights will help us understand user behavior, evaluate the performance of new features, and continually improve our products to make them more enjoyable and rewarding for our users.

At Underdog, we thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment where innovation is constant, and each day brings new challenges and opportunities. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of shaping our product strategy through data-driven insights, balancing the need for high product velocity with the rigor and depth of thorough analysis.

What you’ll do:

• Lead a Team: Manage, coach, and develop a team of product analysts, ensuring high quality and impactful insights.
• Drive Experimentation: Develop and execute experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing, multivariate testing, and contextual bandits to inform product decisions. Use tools like Amplitude Experiment, LaunchDarkly, StatSig, Optimizely, or Eppo to manage and analyze experiments.
• Product Performance Analysis: Evaluate the performance of new and existing features, using data to provide actionable insights and recommendations. Create analytical frameworks to measure and monitor product KPIs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, and other stakeholders to define business problems, perform deep analysis, and drive the product roadmap.
• Data Evangelism: Be an authority on data-driven decision-making within the product and engineering organization. Facilitate the democratization of data across teams and levels of the business.
• Advanced Analytics: Utilize advanced analytics techniques to dive deep into user interaction and engagement data, uncovering insights and opportunities to improve the product.
• Storytelling with Data: Translate complex data analyses into clear and compelling narratives that inform strategic product decisions.

Who you are:

• Experienced Leader: 5+ years in an analytics role, preferably within a product analytics org, with at least 1 year of experience managing and coaching a team of analysts or data scientists.
• Technical Expertise: Expert proficiency in SQL, with extensive experience using tools like Amplitude, Mixpanel, Looker, Sigma, or Tableau. You have a strong understanding of statistical analysis and experimentation design.
• Product-Focused: Deep understanding of how product analytics can drive business growth. You have experience with event-based data collection and related technical concepts.
• Strategic Thinker: Ability to think critically and strategically about how data can inform product decisions and drive user engagement.
• Collaborative Partner: Comfortable working cross-functionally to create alignment between technical and business teams. You excel at communicating complex analysis in a way that drives decision-making.
• Passionate about Sports: You’re excited about the opportunity to shape the future of fantasy sports and have a genuine interest in sports gaming.

Even better if you have:

• Experience with the sports industry, fantasy sports, or sports betting.
• Expertise in advanced A/B testing tools like LaunchDarkly, Optimizely, StatSig, or Eppo.
• Experience with agile product development environments.

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $180,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.

What we can offer you:

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents