Product Manager in Manchester

Kitman Labs is the performance intelligence company, disrupting and transforming the way the sports industry uses data to unlock the potential of the world's top athletes. Driven by a passion to innovate in the areas of sports performance, analytics and user experience, we have assembled a team of the industry's top data scientists, sports performance scientists, product specialists and engineers. Kitman Labs' advanced Intelligence Platform (iP) is now used by over 2000 teams in 50 leagues on 6 continents, including the NFL, Premier League, National Women's Soccer League and MLS.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced and driven Product Manager to lead core product initiatives from conception through to launch and beyond. This role will require a strategic thinker with a strong emphasis on executing on product vision, stakeholder management, and facilitating a successful product lifecycle. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of how sports organisations operate and a genuine passion for building products that make a real difference to coaches, sports scientists and performance staff. This role requires a flexible approach to working hours and occasional weekend work to support our US-based clients and global roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with Lead Product Managers to align product strategy with client outcomes and company objectives
• Own the full product lifecycle for your area, from discovery and ideation through to release and iteration
• Develop a deep understanding of how sports organisations operate, building strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders to stay close to the problem space
• Define and manage a prioritised roadmap, ensuring the team is always focused on the highest-impact work
• Actively monitor the competitive landscape and emerging market trends in sports performance technology, using those insights to sharpen prioritisation and inform product strategy
• Partner with engineering and design squads to translate insights into well-scoped, outcome-driven deliverables
• Foster the principle of building the smallest valuable thing and iterating based on evidence and feedback
• Define clear success metrics for your product area and use data to guide decisions and measure outcomes
• Build and communicate a commercial case for your roadmap investments, demonstrating clear linkage between product decisions and business outcomes such as retention, expansion and customer value
• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly to stakeholders across the business
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success and Marketing to support successful go-to-market execution

Experience and skills we're looking for

• Track record in a Product Manager role within a B2B SaaS environment, owning a product area end-to-end
• Strong understanding of the full product development lifecycle, from discovery through to release and ongoing iteration
• Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills, with experience translating complex user needs into clear product requirements
• Strong background in building products with design at the centre of the approach
• Customer-centric mindset with the ability to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative inputs to inform decision-making
• Commercially minded, with a clear understanding of how product decisions influence revenue, retention and customer value — and the ability to articulate that to senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to track and analyse the competitive landscape, synthesising market signals into actionable product insights
• Proficient in using AI tools, such as Claude, Gemini or similar, to accelerate discovery, research, prototyping and decision-making, and have an understanding of how AI/ML capabilities can be applied within a product context
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, sales and customer success to drive results
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and managing trade-offs across scope, quality and time
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, at direct-to-customer standard
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated and highly organised

Ideally, you will have

• Experience working with or within professional sports organisations, clubs, federations or leagues
• Familiarity with sports performance, sports science or athlete health workflows
• An understanding of how performance staff, such as coaches, sports scientists, physiotherapists or analysts, use technology in their day-to-day work

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance for employee & dependants
• Meaningful equity
• Pension plan
• Life cover
• Income protection
• Wellbeing benefits

Location

While this role allows for remote work, occasional face-to-face gatherings are recommended.

Diversity

In addition to building a team with diverse skill-sets, Kitman Labs is committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on age, civil or family status, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please let us know. You can find information about how we process, share and keep your personal data safe by reading our privacy policy. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analysing CVs/resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.