Director, Product (Platform)

Teamworks, the Operating System for Sports™, powers more than 6,500 sports organizations worldwide, including collegiate athletic departments and teams across all major professional leagues. With almost 500 exceptional employees located in over a dozen different countries, Teamworks’ software solutions drive the operations of the most recognizable sports properties in the world.

We are seeking a transformational platform product leader to unify Teamworks’ multi-product environment into a single, modern operating system. In this role, you’ll guide the architecture, standards, and shared services that connect our products, accelerate engineering velocity, and unlock cross-product opportunities across the organization.

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a highly visible, high-leverage role where your work will directly influence company-wide architecture, empower dozens of teams, and shape how athletes, coaches, and organizations experience Teamworks for years to come.

Game Plan - How You'll Drive Impact:

• Lead Platform Consolidation: Drive the creation of Teamworks’ unified technical foundation, including a centralized identity system, shared schemas, common design system, and reusable APIs to unify our multi-product ecosystem.
• Accelerate Unified Mobile App & Unified Web Execution: Partner across Product and Engineering to stabilize the UMA rollout and define a durable unified web strategy that enables shared components, frameworks, and long-term governance.
• Build Cross-Product Integration Standards: Establish platform-wide patterns for Product-to-Product APIs, service contracts, integration governance, documentation, and the elimination of one-off approaches.
• Enable New Product Capabilities: Ensure emerging products can build rapidly on a shared platform, supporting unified data, strong service ownership, and seamless frontend and backend integration.
• Architect AI Infrastructure: Partner with Intelligence and AI teams to develop scalable data pipelines, feature stores, ML Ops foundations, and inference patterns that unlock model-driven features across the ecosystem.
• Ship a Robust API Platform: Deliver a unified API gateway with consistent authentication, rate limiting, observability, and source-of-truth domain ownership that powers both internal and third-party integrations.

Player Profile - What You Bring to the Team:

• Software & Product Background: 8+ years in software/product development, ideally in growth-stage or late-stage startups
• Proven Platform Leadership: 5+ years leading platform, shared services, data, or API product teams in B2B SaaS, with a track record of centralizing capabilities across autonomous teams.
• Leadership & Influence: 5+ years managing Product Managers and building high-performing technical product organizations. Demonstrated success driving adoption of platform services across teams by building trust, credibility, and alignment.
• Technical Fluency: Deep understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, streaming/ETL pipelines, microservices, and API/service contract design (REST/GraphQL).
• Strategic Product Thinking: Ability to translate business needs into platform roadmaps, define source-of-truth ownership, and tie infrastructure investments to measurable business outcomes.
• Systems Integration: Experience unifying acquired products, consolidating redundant systems, and bringing data and services together into a cohesive platform.

The Ideal Recruit - Skills & Experience:

• Platform product leadership in multi-product B2B SaaS environments
• Expertise with distributed systems, APIs, data layers, and cross-product infrastructure
• Experience driving platform adoption across autonomous teams
• Proven capability to support large-scale, high-growth architectural initiatives
• Systems integration and unification experience (e.g., M&A consolidation)
• Startup-ready mindset: action-oriented, comfortable with ambiguity, bias toward velocity

Champion Mindset - Traits for Success:

• Ability to design for reusability, scale, and extensibility while knowing when to centralize vs. decentralize.