Senior Product Manager, Studio Team

Responsibilities

• Frame emerging business ideas as sharp, testable hypotheses with defined risks and validation criteria.
• Run focused validation sprints with a design partner, choosing the fastest credible path to an answer.
• Size opportunities, model business cases, analyze competitive and market dynamics, and assess commercial viability.
• Conduct customer discovery through surveys, interviews, ethnographic research, demand tests, and prototypes.
• Synthesize customer evidence and business analysis into clear go/no-go recommendations for leadership.
• Package validated opportunities for handoff to product teams.
• Help establish the Studio's operating playbook, sprint cadence, decision framework, and confidence standards.
• Use AI tools for research synthesis, analysis, and rapid prototyping.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing technology products, focused on mobile or consumer products.
• Experience with 0-to-1 work, such as early-stage startups, new product incubation, or founding a company.
• Strategic and business-minded, with the ability to size markets and build lightweight business cases.
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, comfortable with autonomy and ambiguity.
• Experience making data-informed decisions and conducting analysis to size opportunities and interpret experiments.
• Skilled in customer discovery, including planning, recruiting, and conducting lightweight research independently.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present findings, recommendations, and tradeoffs to executives.
• Comfortable evaluating opportunities objectively, including recommending that an initiative not proceed.
• Fluent with or eager to master AI tools for research, analysis, and rapid prototyping.
• Knowledge of or passion for sports and sports communities.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience at an early-stage startup or on an incubation, venture, or new bets team.
• Experience evaluating international expansion or new market opportunities.
• Background in strategy, consulting, or corporate development.

Compensation and Benefits

• Target salary range: $160,000–$180,000.
• Total compensation may include incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
• Unlimited vacation policy and paid volunteer opportunities.
• $4,000 technology stipend every two years after start.
• $500 annual work-from-home stipend.
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness, learning, and lifestyle stipends.
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family/dependent coverage.
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans with immediate company match.
• Life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid parental leave and family-building benefits.
• Teammate discount for DICK'S Sporting Goods and its family of brands.