--- title: 'Product Director, Sportsbook at Fanatics Betting & Gaming' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-director-sportsbook-fanatics-betting-gaming-new-york-ny-29z9ja2nwq31' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-14' --- # Product Director, Sportsbook at Fanatics Betting & Gaming - **Company:** Fanatics Betting & Gaming - **Location:** New York NY, United States - **Compensation:** $163k–$235k - **Posted:** 2026-08-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticsfbg/jobs/4360732009 ## Job description ## About Us Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. Fanatics Betting & Gaming is building one of the most ambitious and customer-focused sportsbooks in the industry. We combine product excellence, deep sports expertise, and cutting-edge technology to create seamless, high-performance betting experiences at scale. As part of a fast-growing and highly competitive market, we are committed to delivering intuitive, reliable, and differentiated products that customers trust and return to every day. ## The Role We are looking for a Product Director to join the Fanatics Betting & Gaming Sportsbook team. This is a senior leadership role where Product, Design, and Engineering work closely together to deliver exceptional customer experiences. As part of one of the fastest-growing sportsbooks in the industry, you will play a critical role in shaping and evolving one of the most important customer journeys within our platform. You will own the end-to-end strategy, vision, and execution for a critical, high-frequency area of the sportsbook experience. You'll define how customers discover, engage with, and transact through our product—ensuring every interaction is intuitive, reliable, scalable, and commercially impactful. Just as importantly, you'll build and lead a high-performing product organisation. You'll manage, coach and develop Product Managers, create clear growth opportunities for both managers and individual contributors, and foster a culture of accountability, customer obsession, and continuous improvement. Success in this role will be measured not only by the products you deliver, but by the strength of the team you build. You'll collaborate closely with leaders across Engineering, Design, Data, Trading, Commercial, Marketing, CRM, and Operations to evolve key customer journeys, solve complex business problems, and deliver measurable outcomes through insight, experimentation, and exceptional product judgment. The ideal candidate is an exceptional people leader and product strategist who enjoys building teams as much as building products. You'll combine outstanding product craft with executive presence, commercial thinking, and the ability to influence across all levels of the organisation. ## What You'll Do As a Product Director, you will define and drive the strategy for a critical area of the sportsbook, ensuring it delivers exceptional customer value and measurable business impact. - Partner with Product and Commercial leadership to understand the long-term business strategy and translate it into a compelling product vision and roadmap for your domain. - Own and evolve a multi-year product strategy, balancing innovation, optimisation, scalability, operational excellence, and commercial impact. - Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers, creating an environment where individuals are challenged, supported, and able to grow into the next stage of their careers. - Build a high-performing product organisation by raising the quality of product thinking, encouraging ownership, and creating a culture of continuous learning and accountability. - Prepare and deliver clear, structured executive presentations that communicate strategy, roadmap priorities, performance insights, and key trade-offs through compelling, data-driven narratives. - Lead multiple product teams, providing strategic direction, clear prioritisation, and coaching to enable high-quality execution. - Establish clear customer and business outcomes for your teams and create accountability through measurable results. - Embed customer insight, experimentation, and analytics into product decisions, continually raising the bar for product craft across your organisation. - Partner closely with Engineering leadership to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of high-traffic transactional systems. - Work across Data, CRM, Commercial, Platform, Trading, and Operations teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives and align investments with enterprise priorities. - Clearly communicate strategy, priorities, trade-offs, and risk to senior leadership, influencing decisions through structured thinking and sound product judgment. - Build organisational capability through effective delegation, coaching, succession planning, and developing future product leaders. - Proactively manage dependencies and sequencing across complex systems, ensuring alignment without compromising pace or delivery. This role requires a strategic mindset, deep product expertise, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate confidently at both executive and execution levels. You'll be equally comfortable shaping long-term strategy, coaching leaders, and helping teams solve difficult product problems. ## What We're Looking For - 10+ years of experience in Product Management, ideally leading complex, high-scale, customer-facing digital products. - Proven experience leading multiple Product Managers or Product Leaders, with a genuine passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams. - Experience building healthy product organisations by raising product craft, improving ways of working, and creating an environment where great product managers can thrive. - Demonstrated ownership of high-frequency, transactional customer experiences with measurable commercial impact. - Strong commercial acumen and expertise in data-driven product development, experimentation, and customer insight. - A structured, strategic thinker who can navigate complexity and make clear, high-quality trade-off decisions. - Outstanding executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional leaders. - Experience attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional product talent. - Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on involvement when needed. - Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with significant scale and performance requirements. - Experience in sports betting, gaming, fintech, ecommerce, or similarly complex digital platforms is preferred. Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Salary Range $163,000—$235,000 USD By submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our [Candidate Privacy Policy.](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ff494b9931735466ce28d5b/t/69de53bde2c02c25e9c38758/1776178110037/Candidate+Privacy+Policy+April+2026.pdf) ## About Fanatics Betting & Gaming ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fanatics Betting & Gaming is the online and retail sports betting and iGaming subsidiary of Fanatics, building a real-money wagering platform that integrates with the broader Fanatics ecosystem of commerce and collectibles. - **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Fanatics Inc., which is also private) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Michael Rubin (Founder & CEO of Fanatics) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Online Sports Betting & iGaming (Real-Money Wagering) - **Target customers**: B2C — sports fans and bettors in the United States - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Relentlessly enhancing the fan experience" by allowing sports fans to buy, collect, and bet through a unified digital platform. ## Products & Services - **Fanatics Sportsbook**: A native iOS and Android mobile app for online sports betting, available in 23 states and Washington D.C., covering approximately 95% of the U.S. addressable online sports bettor market. Features include "Fair Play" (refunds single-player prop bets if a player is ruled out early) and "FanCash" (up to 10% cashback on every bet, win or lose, redeemable for merchandise, collectibles, and bonus bets). - **Fanatics Casino**: An online casino platform available in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, offering slots, blackjack, roulette, live dealer games, and exclusive titles from Fanatics Game Studios (e.g., Fanatics Blackjack, Field Goal Frenzy). - **Retail Sportsbooks**: Operates 22 retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium (Northwest Stadium). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed for Fanatics Betting & Gaming as a standalone entity. Fanatics Inc. was valued at $31 billion in a 2022 funding round, though more recent reports suggest a lower valuation in private markets. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Fanatics Inc. has raised significant capital (over $7 billion in total) from investors; FBG is funded internally by Fanatics. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fanatics Inc. investors include Silver Lake, Fidelity Management & Research, SoftBank Vision Fund, BlackRock, and the National Football League (NFL). FBG partners with over 900 sports properties, including major leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL), players associations, teams, and colleges. - **Growth Signals**: Claims to be "the fastest growing sportsbook in America." Acquired PointsBet's U.S. business in August 2023 (final state closed April 2024), accelerating market expansion and integrating PointsBet's risk management and trading technology from Banach Technology. 75% of Sportsbook customers use FanCash monthly, with up to 10% of FanCash redeemed on Fanatics.com. ## Competitive Advantages - **Ecosystem Integration**: Uniquely positioned as the first true sports brand to enter legal sports betting, FBG is tightly integrated with Fanatics Commerce (licensed fan gear, Lids retail stores) and Fanatics Collectibles (trading cards, memorabilia). FanCash can be used across the entire ecosystem, creating a powerful loyalty loop. - **Massive Existing User Base**: Fanatics has a database of over 100 million global sports fans, providing a built-in acquisition channel that competitors lack. - **Proprietary Technology**: Built natively on iOS and Android for superior user experience. Acquired Banach Technology (via PointsBet) for advanced quantitative trading and risk management models. - **Innovative Product Features**: "Fair Play" and "FanCash" are unique differentiators that reduce bettor frustration and increase loyalty. ## Strategic Focus - **Market Expansion**: Continuing to launch in new states as legalization expands. Recently launched Fanatics Casino web version and standalone app (March 2025). - **Product Enhancement**: Deepening personalization through the Fanatics ecosystem, leveraging data from commerce and collectibles to offer tailored betting experiences. Investing in exclusive casino game development via Fanatics Game Studios. - **Technology Leadership**: Building on the Banach Technology acquisition to improve trading, risk management, and in-play betting capabilities. - **Prediction Markets**: Expanding into prediction markets as part of the broader Fanatics platform. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as "fast-paced," "intense," and "relentless" — employees are expected to "jump in at a moment's notice to deliver the win." The company emphasizes a "By Fans, For Fans" ethos and seeks high performers who are passionate about sports and technology. - **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Many engineering and corporate roles are listed as "Remote (US)" on the careers page, though some roles may be office-based in New York, Denver, Leeds, or Dublin. - **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work at the intersection of sports, technology, and gaming. Employees get to be part of a company that owns the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium. The company emphasizes employee welfare, wellness, and professional development. - **Engineering Culture**: Heavy investment in native mobile development (iOS/Android), data engineering, machine learning, and trading systems. Roles include Analytics Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Platform Engineer, and Engineering Manager for Market Maker. ## Sources 1. [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-betting-gaming) 2. [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/fanatics-sportsbook-online-experience) 3. [fanaticsinc.com](https://www.fanaticsinc.com/join-our-team) 4. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/fanaticsfbg) 5. 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