Senior Product Manager at Sporty - OKR & Growth in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Role Level and Market Positioning
This is a mid-to-senior Product Manager role based on the breadth of responsibilities: owning a roadmap, managing cross-functional dependencies, mentoring teammates, and driving go-to-market strategy. Market benchmarks for experienced PMs in Europe typically range from €70,000–€110,000 annually (with senior roles at major tech firms reaching higher). Sporty's salary is described as "competitive" with quarterly performance bonuses, which could meaningfully lift total compensation — but the absence of published figures warrants clarification at the offer stage.
Skills You'll Build
- OKR-driven product strategy — highly transferable to any growth-stage company
- Emerging markets product experience — a differentiator increasingly valued by global fintechs and gaming companies
- Cross-functional leadership in a fully distributed team — a skill in growing demand post-pandemic
- Data-driven iteration and user research — core PM competencies that open doors at FAANG and beyond
Culture Signals
Sporty appears to be a scale-up with millions of daily users, suggesting product-market fit is established. The emphasis on OKRs, backlog ownership, and go-to-market planning points to a structured but agile culture. Green flags include: no AI in recruitment (human review within 48 hours), clear interview stages, and async-friendly working hours. A potential area to probe: the absence of explicit PTO beyond the 28 days and no mention of equity or stock options.
About the Role
As a Product Manager at Sporty, you will define and work on the digital roadmap for products used by millions of daily global users. You will collaborate with talented stakeholders across our remote-working organization to establish clear and measurable goals, and use generative research to create products that excite and engage our customers. In this role, you are expected to become an undisputed expert on your product and customer, and to ensure what goes on your product backlog is worth building.
Overseeing product strategy, partnering with development teams and leading the collaborative, dynamic planning process and prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team, you would ensure business readiness of any new product release. You would manage the scope of projects from inception to closure and ensure delivery processes are efficient and cost effective.
What You'll Be Doing
- Aligning product development goals and initiatives to company OKRs
- Evaluating new opportunities to ensure that what gets developed and delivered to our customers is the right product, and is both usable and desirable. You are expected to direct customer research and analysis initiatives to gain a deep understanding of customers' needs, pain points, and behaviors and use this knowledge to create compelling business cases that demonstrate the value of your proposed product recommendations
- Growing and maintaining an understanding of our competitive landscape through regular research and analysis. You are expected to keep abreast of new policies, regulatory changes, as well as analyzing market trends, competitors, and industry developments to identify opportunities for growth and innovation
- Defining and communicating the product roadmap. You will be responsible for providing clear vision, strategy and regular updates on the plans and progress of your product initiatives to key business stakeholders. You are also expected to unite with your engineering and design teams, actively engaging them in understanding and contributing to the customer and business problems that we aim to solve, and prioritising a product backlog for them to work from
- Collaborating with your engineering teams to translate product opportunities into clear, specific, and measurable requirements to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality working software. You are expected to prioritise a product backlog for them to work from, and to maintain a strong understanding of the technology and engineering process, ensuring that the final product meets the needs of the customer or business before its release
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with Delivery Managers, Tech Leads and Product Managers to effectively coordinate dependencies between tasks, development teams or projects
- Collaborating with internal teams, specifically the marketing team, to develop comprehensive go-to-market plans and product positioning. You are expected to identify target customer segments and support the marketing team on developing messaging that positions the product in the minds of the target customer
- Defining and tracking key metrics to measure product performance and success. You are expected to continuously monitor and analyze your product and customer feedback, making necessary adjustments to the product as needed
- Providing training and mentorship to new and current team members on your areas of expertise and responsibility
What You'll Bring
- Experience making data-driven product decisions through user research and experimentation
- Demonstrable evidence of iterating and improving products based on feedback and performance data
- A strong understanding of user-centered design principles
- The ability to influence within a fast-paced and distributed environment, and lead cross-functional planning and problem solving, particularly with engineering and design teams
- Experience defining and tracking OKRs or a similar goal-setting framework
- Excellent communication, presentation and analytical skills
- The ability to communicate clearly and efficiently in English
Even Better If You Have
- Experience in achieving product market fit for emerging markets
- Degree or Masters in a Business, Product or Technology discipline
What's in It for You
- Sporty is a remote-first company in pursuit of sustainability
- A competitive salary + individual performance-based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Core working hours are 10am–3pm in your local time zone, with flexibility outside of this
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment provided
- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
Interview Process
- Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Offline take-home assignment
- Remote video interview with Team Members (60 mins)
- Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)
If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
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