Senior Product Manager, Studio Team

About this role

ABOUT GAMECHANGER:

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.

THE POSITION:

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, you'll pair with a designer to run focused validation sprints. Unlike a traditional product management role, your output isn't a shipped feature or a roadmap of releases. It's 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. You'll 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.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

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 Studio's 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, you'll 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.

WHO YOU ARE:

- 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. You're 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 don't 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. You're motivated by finding the truth about an opportunity, not by making every idea look like a winner, and you're 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.

BONUS POINTS:

- You've 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 - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.

- WFH stipend - $500 ann

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