: Lead Product Manager, Mobile Platform Experience

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with a mission to inspire and connect people through basketball. They are seeking a Lead Product Manager for Mobile Platform Experience to oversee the delivery of NBA’s fan-facing platforms across mobile, ensuring system-driven, scalable, and reliable product delivery while enhancing platform stability and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the end-to-end product lifecycle for NBA’s mobile platforms
• Collaborate with a team of Platform Product Managers responsible for mobile-specific execution (i.e., iOS & Android)
• Partner with key stakeholders to define system-driven solutions that enable scalable content, personalization, and performance improvements
• Serve as the primary key point of contact for mobile platform delivery excellence ensuring stability, feature parity, and release management
• Participate in quarterly PI Planning for mobile platforms in collaboration with App Experience, Platform Services, PMO, and Engineering
• Define cross-platform dependencies, sequencing, and feasibility to ensure predictable delivery of velocity
• Translate business priorities into system-level requirements across backend services, APIs, and SDKs
• Drive stack ranking and trade-off decisions to balance innovation, performance, and technical debt reduction
• Ensure all features are system-aligned leveraging CMS, and other backend services where possible
• Partner with Platform Services to validate entitlement, metadata, playback, and personalization of API readiness
• Conduct impact assessments across SDK upgrades, device performance, and store compliance (Apple, Google)
• Oversee gap analysis for missing services, data pipelines, or SDK updates
• Drive coordination between Product, PMO, Engineering, QA, and Release Ops to maintain synchronized delivery cadences
• Oversee Jira dashboards, PI dependency trackers, and readiness matrices for leadership visibility
• Partner with QA and Release Ops on regression coverage, certification, and store submissions
• Present platform roadmaps, risks, and post-launch learnings to Product and Program leadership
• Monitor platform health metrics (crash rates, ANRs, startup time, memory utilization)
• Translate operational insights into PI prioritization and roadmap decisions
• Establish KPIs around time-to-market, delivery predictability, feature parity, and stability
• Champion automation, systemization, and reusability to eliminate redundant manual processes

Requirements:

• 5-7 years in Product Management or Platform Product Management with 2+ years in a leadership role overseeing mobile, web, or multi-device ecosystems
• Deep understanding of iOS/Android SDKs, APIs, and CI/CD processes
• Familiarity with CMS frameworks and Platform (backend) services
• Strong knowledge of QA workflows, store submission processes, and analytics instrumentation
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience required
• Experience in sports, media, or consumer digital products is strongly preferred
• MBA or advanced technical degree preferred
• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Amplitude, Figma, or equivalent systems