What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager, Fan Data Platform position at Major League Baseball (MLB)?
The MLB Product Team is looking for a Senior Product Manager for our Fan Data Platform. This role will be responsible for enhancing the foundational Fan Data Platform that centralizes all MLB Fan Data in one single platform and enables use cases across hundreds of digital and physical touch points. This role will have a special focus on building products that support Ticketing, Marketing, and Digital Analytics, as we continue to expand and grow our products in this space. This capability plays a pivotal role in a wide variety of use cases in the Baseball industry including Analytics, Data Science, Personalization, Marketing, as well as Business Intelligence across various lines of businesses. We have a unique opportunity in the Baseball industry to leverage large scale data and drive new and exciting personalized experiences for millions of fans globally. This Senior Product Manager will play a critical role in creating them.
If you are passionate about leveraging data to build the next generation of customer experiences, this will be a great opportunity for you!
Responsibilities
Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000 (Base Salary) Bonus
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.
Top MLB Perks & Benefits
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.
California Residents: Please see our California Recruitment Privacy Policy for more details.
Colorado Residents: Colorado based applicants may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please email us at accommodations@mlb.com. Requests received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!
If you are passionate about leveraging data to build the next generation of customer experiences, this will be a great opportunity for you!
Responsibilities
- Own the Product Management function for core components of MLB’s Fan Data Platform related to Ticketing data. Focus on centralizing all ticketing data in one platform, creating new data products and enabling high value use cases across the industry
- Serve as a primary product point of contact for MLB Clubs, partnering closely to understand their business needs, gather feedback, and ensure the Fan Data Platform effectively supports club-level analytics, marketing, and operational use cases
- Drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups (Marketing, Analytics, Clubs, Ticketing partners, Engineering), balancing competing priorities , defining solutions, and influencing decision-making, and delivering high-quality products
- Create and manage features, roadmaps, day to day planning activities and rollouts by effectively partnering with stakeholder groups, while balancing quick wins for immediate needs and a longer term product vision
- Maintain a strong focus on data quality and governance
- Build and manage relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders across the Baseball industry as well as our partners
- Keep a pulse across sports and other industries, including best practices and trends. Evangelize new ideas and bring them into the organization
- Identify and define new product opportunities by deeply understanding fan behavior, business needs, and data capabilities; translate these into scalable platform solutions
- Define and track success metrics (e.g., data adoption, activation, revenue impact, data quality) and ensure product investments drive measurable business outcomes
- 4-6 years of experience as a Product Manager supporting Data Platforms
- Technical background along with hands on experience in analyzing large scale data sets with SQL, Python, R, etc
- Strong problem solving skills. Ability to translate highly unstructured business problems into tangible solutions
- Proven experience in shaping and prioritizing product roadmaps, owning large scale projects through to completion
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as scrum or kanban
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Self-starter who is energetic & enthusiastic, confident, adaptable & fan-oriented
- A love for Baseball!
- An understanding of ticketing data in the sports industry
- Experience in building large scale Data Platforms using cloud based services
- Experience with implementing and driving new use cases through CDPs
Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000 (Base Salary) Bonus
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.
Top MLB Perks & Benefits
- Competitive Benefits Package
- Company Contributed 401K Plan
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
- Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Pet Insurance
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.
California Residents: Please see our California Recruitment Privacy Policy for more details.
Colorado Residents: Colorado based applicants may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please email us at accommodations@mlb.com. Requests received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!
Salary : $150,000 - $180,000