: Lead Product Manager, Mobile Platform Experience

Role Overview

The Lead Product Manager, Mobile Platform Experience leads the technical operations and delivery of NBA’s fan-facing platforms across Mobile platforms. This leader is responsible for driving system-driven, scalable, and reliable product delivery that accelerates time-to-market, enhances platform stability, and enables continuous innovation across all device ecosystems.

The role will oversee cross-functional planning and execution across App Experience, Platform Services, Engineering, Design, QA, Program Management, and Release Operations, ensuring platform readiness and delivery excellence across Mobile platforms.

This is a highly visible, cross-functional leadership role that requires strong technical acumen, delivery discipline, and the ability to harmonize product, design, and engineering strategies into cohesive, system-led releases.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Leadership & Platform Oversight

• 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.

2. Planning & Prioritization (Program Increment Alignment)

• 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.

3. System & Technical Readiness

• Ensure all features are system-aligned leveraging CMS, and other backend services where possible.

• Partner with Platform Services to validate entitlement, metadata, playback, and personalization of API readiness.

• Conduct impact assessments across SDK upgrades, device performance, and store compliance (Apple, Google).

• Oversee gap analysis for missing services, data pipelines, or SDK updates.

4. Cross-Functional Program Leadership

• Drive coordination between Product, PMO, Engineering, QA, and Release Ops to maintain synchronized delivery cadences.

• Oversee Jira dashboards, PI dependency trackers, and readiness matrices for leadership visibility.

• Partner with QA and Release Ops on regression coverage, certification, and store submissions.

• Present platform roadmaps, risks, and post-launch learnings to Product and Program leadership.

5. Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor platform health metrics (crash rates, ANRs, startup time, memory utilization).

• Translate operational insights into PI prioritization and roadmap decisions.

• Establish KPIs around time-to-market, delivery predictability, feature parity, and stability.

• Champion automation, systemization, and reusability to eliminate redundant manual processes.

  • Expected Outcomes:

    • System-led delivery: Consistent, scalable execution across all platforms

    • Operational excellence: Improved delivery of velocity and reduced regression.

    • Cross-platform parity: Unified experiences across iOS and Android

    • Strategic clarity: A dependency-aware, data-driven roadmap that supports innovation.

    • Platform health: Sustained reliability and performance through proactive technical management.

6. Leadership Competencies

• Systems Thinking: Ability to architect scalable delivery models and minimize platform divergence.

• Cross-Functional Influence: Proven success driving alignment across engineering, design, and business teams.

• Execution Discipline: Skilled in delivery of orchestration across concurrent, interdependent workstreams.

• Analytical Rigor: Uses data and metrics to guide prioritization and assess platform health.

• People Leadership: Coaches and develops PM talent with a focus on technical depth and operational acumen.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5-7 years in Product Management or Platform Product Management with 2+ years in a leadership role overseeing mobile, web, or multi-device ecosystems.

• Industry: Experience in sports, media, or consumer digital products is strongly preferred.

Technical Proficiency:

• 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.

• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Amplitude, Figma, or equivalent systems.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required; MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.

Salary Range:

$ 172,000 – $215,000

Job Posting Title:

Employees currently are eligible to receive an annual discretionary performance bonus, awarded at the sole discretion of the Company and subject to any terms and conditions set by the Company. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company-sponsored employee benefit programs: 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; and time off benefits that include vacation, sick time, and personal days.

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About the NBA

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2024-25 season featured a record-tying 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness.