Technical Product Manager

As a Technical Product Manager, you will work with Learfield’s data and analytics team in aggregating, developing, and analyzing the data associated with Learfield’s Fanbase. Fanbase is Learfield’s data and analytics platform that powers our strategic fan insights across the enterprise, leveraging cutting-edge analytics to unlock the next wave of growth in college sports. By aggregating data across ticketing, sponsorship, digital and social channels, commerce, and more, Fanbase helps Learfield and our school partners to better understand how fans engage with college athletics. Fanbase allows our teams and partners to realize stronger marketing efficiency and effectiveness, as well as to increase commercial opportunities through ticket / merchandise sales, development funding, etc. This role will report to the Vice President, Data & Analytics.

Product Strategy

• Own the product vision and roadmap for core fan data and platforms capabilities.

• Translate business needs and goals into clear requirements, user stories, and success criteria.

• Prioritize team’s work based on business impact, feasibility, and dependencies.

• Maintain a well-structured, continuously groomed backlog.

Execution

• Act as product owner for data engineering team, driving sprints and release planning, for data and platform related initiatives.

• Break large initiatives into clear, executable increments with defined milestones.

• Remove blockers, resolve ambiguity, and manage dependencies and risks proactively.

• Track progress with delivery metrics and ensure on-time, high-quality releases.

• Ensure new products, features, and capabilities are fully launched, documented, and adopted – not just built.

Stakeholder Management

• Align partners on priorities, timelines, and tradeoffs.

• Communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Manage expectations with transparency around scope, risks, and progress.

• Partner with downstream teams to ensure solutions meet real consumption needs.

Technical Product Leadership

• Collaborate closely with engineering on solution design, schemas, and data contract planning.

• Understand how data is generated, ingested, stored, transformed, and consumed across systems and various end users at Learfield deeply enough to evaluate tradeoffs.

• Define data quality, reliability, and platform performance standards and ensure they are met.

Driving Measurable Value

• Define KPIs for product performance and adoption.

• Measure and communicate business impact of delivered capabilities.

• Iterate based on usage, feedback, and metrics.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ or more years of product management experience, including at least 2 years in technical or data platform product ownership.

• Strong understanding of modern data ecosystems (cloud data warehouses/lakes, ETL pipelines, orchestration, APIs, identify resolution, MDM, and data modeling).

• Demonstrated ability to drive execution through sprint leadership, backlog management, and delivery tracking.

• Ability to partner effectively with data engineers, analysts, client success teams, and business stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills with the ability to translate business needs and technical solutions.

• Experience defining success metrics and using data to measure product impact.

• Experience with customer attribute systems and marketing/CRM activation data.

• Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.

• Prior background in engineering, analytics, or technical project delivery.

Learfield offers a full spectrum of benefits for eligible employees including Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Life Insurance and Other Insurance Plans, Flexible Paid Time Off (minimum 10+ days annually), including Parental Leave, 20 Paid Holidays, 401(k) + Match, and Short/Long Term Disability. Leave benefits are consistent with state and local laws, including the Colorado Health Families and Workplaces Act.

Learfield is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.