About this opportunity
Scope lists this Head of Product (UpNext) opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Role Mission
As Product Manager at UpNext, you'll own product strategy and execution for the UpNext platform: the transfer portal intelligence tool used by college coaches nationwide to track transfer portal activity, build recruit lists, and evaluate roster needs. You'll partner with UpNext leadership to set and prioritize the roadmap, and work day-to-day with ScopeLabs, UpNext's product development partner, to turn priorities into shipped features. This is a foundational product hire, you'll help define how product decisions get made as UpNext scales.
Core Responsibilities
Product Development
Document and organize feedback and feature requests from coaches, internal stakeholders, and platform usage data, prioritizing initiatives based on product intuition, user insights, and business priorities
Product interviews of customers across the full product lifecycle, including coaches, agencies, and athletes
Own the UpNext feature roadmap end-to-end: prioritization, sequencing, and communicating status to leadership
Write clear, detailed product specs (requirements, user journeys, technical specs) in partnership with ScopeLabs
Partner with ScopeLabs' engineering team to shepherd features from spec through launch across core platform surfaces: Search, Smart Lists, Insights, Team Pages, Athlete Profiles, and the Activity Feed
Conduct QA testing on new releases to ensure high-quality deliverables before they reach coaches
Identify product improvement opportunities through customer calls, platform usage, and analytics tooling
Stay close to UpNext's core data pipeline (NCAA transfer portal data, JUCO data, AI-resolved transfer destinations, and emerging high school data sources) and find new data providers to enhance the data coverage and data integrity.
Stakeholder & Team Management
Communicate roadmap status and delivery timelines to UpNext leadership
Gather and triage feedback from coaches and internal stakeholders
Represent the voice of the customer (coaches and recruiting staff) in product decisions
Process & Operations
Own UpNext's weekly release cycle process, including sprint planning and ticket triage
Manage bug triage and prioritization across the product roadmap
Suggest and drive process improvements as the product organization matures
Help evolve UpNext's product development processes as the team grows beyond its initial ScopeLabs-supported build phase
Growth Path - First 3 Months
Month 1: Foundation
Shadow existing product meetings, QA cycles, and release processes
Develop a deep understanding of the UpNext platform: Search, Smart Lists, Insights, Team Pages, Athlete Profiles, and Activity Feed
Learn the recruiting and transfer portal domain: NCAA transfer rules, portal data sources, and in-flight JUCO and high school data initiatives
Learn UpNext's spec-writing approach and begin drafting specs with mentorship from ScopeLabs
Month 2: Growing Ownership
Begin presenting in the weekly product/leadership meeting
Start owning coach and stakeholder communications
Take point on spec writing for new initiatives
Begin coordinating directly with ScopeLabs' engineering team on sprint planning and delivery
Start managing parts of the release and QA process
Month 3: Independence
Own the full feature roadmap end-to-end
Own spec creation end-to-end
Own all stakeholder and coach communications
Manage feature delivery independently in partnership with ScopeLabs
Contribute to high-level product strategy discussions for UpNext's next phase of growth
Additional Opportunities
Shape UpNext's product development processes as the team scales beyond its initial build phase
Deepen expertise in the college sports recruiting and transfer portal space
Contribute to strategic conversations about UpNext's product direction and data strategy
This is just a starter list… many more TBD!
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
Who can apply
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