
Lead Product Manager, Mobile Platform Experience
NBA
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $172,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
- Conduct impact assessments across SDK upgrades, device performance, and store compliance (Apple, Google)
- Drive coordination between Product, PMO, Engineering, QA, and Release Ops to maintain synchronized delivery cadences
- Monitor platform health metrics (crash rates, ANRs, startup time, memory utilization)
Requirements
- 5-7 years in Product Management or Platform Product Management
- 2+ years in a leadership role overseeing mobile, web, or multi-device ecosystems
- Experience in sports, media, or consumer digital products is strongly preferred
- 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; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life/AD&D insurance
- short- and long-term disability
- fertility and family-forming assistance
- wellbeing allowance
- educational assistance
- mental health coaching/therapy
- tax advantaged accounts such as HSA and healthcare/dependent care FSAs
- a 401(k) retirement plan
- time off benefits that include vacation, sick time, and personal days
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product ManagementPlatform Product ManagementiOS SDKAndroid SDKAPIsCI/CD processesQA workflowsanalytics instrumentationCMS frameworksbackend services
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingdecision-makingimpact assessmentsynchronizationinnovation balancing
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBAadvanced technical degree