Senior Software Engineering Manager, Fanatics
Sports merchandise retailer
Job no longer available
Sports merchandise retailer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Fanatics' mission is to ignite and amplify the passion of global fans across their digital sports journey, and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of progressive experience in engineering management (but we always value aptitude over experience)
- Strong technical skills to translate business needs into engineering opportunities to drive the strategic agenda in a continuous delivery environment
- Hold a strong understanding of the cloud in industry/user and enterprise trends, with the ability to translate and leverage internal tools and systems to drive innovative solutions, resulting in outstanding technologies
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with the engineering team and implement appropriate tools and practices that balance quality with productivity
- Experience managing one or more engineering teams responsible for a key strategic area
- Strong executive presentation and communication skills
- Excellent influencing and problem-resolution skills
- Positive and flexible attitude to work in a fast-paced environment and a willingness to embrace new initiatives
- Strong report writing skills with the ability to gather, evaluate, and analyze relevant information while structuring material in a logical and coherent manner
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager. This role is responsible for defining, implementing, training, and executing against our engineering strategy, creating processes, and building tools within Fanatics Betting and Gaming
- The Senior Engineering Manager is an expert technologist with experience in managing a team or teams of engineers that can deliver business results and ship high-quality software with customer-facing products and internal platforms
- Recruit and build out a best-in-class Engineering organization to build scaled distributed systems and customer-facing features that are high quality and highly reliable
- Manage one or more development teams
- Develop a deep understanding of Fanatics Betting & Gaming and the opportunities for our customers
- Identify technology gaps and opportunities, taking ownership for the technology roadmap within the space and ensuring appropriate engineering investments in the underlying platform
- Drive predictability and reliability through Operational Excellence and create clear objectives and transparency through the use of data and KPIs
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, inside and outside of Engineering, and collaborate with leaders to prioritize technical efforts and provide input on product features and capabilities
- Provide leadership and technical expertise within the engineering organization
- Be a mentor and role model for engineering
- Remain current on technology and trends in engineering
- Must be open to occasional travel to events and Bet Fanatics offices for various offsite and team meetings
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Fanatics is a sports-based eCommerce company that offers teams and leagues a convenient online platform through which to sell licensed apparel and merchandise. As well as the Fanatics online store, it runs the online stores of dozens of teams and leagues including the MLB, NHL, NBA, and NASCAR. They've also signed a number of exclusive deals to become the sole vendors of officially licensed merch for top athletes across multiple leagues.
It operates using a Cloud Commerce sales system which tracks clicks and purchases on the site as well as sports and player news and updates to inform retail and marketing decisions in real time. The company was first established as Football Fanatics, a chain of bricks-and-mortar stores in malls across Florida. Since then, it has been bought out by GSI Commerce and expanded.
Looking ahead, while its commerce business remains its biggest source of revenue for now, Fanatics has expanded into livestreamed shopping around collectibles and trading cards, acquiring Tops and hiring Snap and Alphabet executive to launch this new business. It also has an NFT arm in Candy Digital, of which it’s the majority owner, as well as a fledgling betting and gaming division.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Dec 2022
$700m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2022
$1.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $4.8bn
Company benefits
- At Fanatics we place our focus on results and empowerment and encourage you to enjoy your time on and OFF the field with our competitive time off policies
- Fanatics values our internal fans too! Our programs are designed to thank and reward Fanatics athletes for their hard work and commitment to winning as a team
- From breakfast to happy hour and every hour in between – Fanatics employees can enjoy time together at one of our many company events.
- As an employee you will receive a special discount on all of your favorite sports merchandise and memorabilia
- Fanatics cares about the fans around us. We encourage you to partner up with your teammates in giving back and serving the communities where we work and play
- You never know who will show up to the office. You might just meet one of your all-time favorite athletes
- Here at Fanatics we want you to accomplish your goals. We offer tuition reimbursement
- Fanatics cares about helping and supporting our teams in their busy lifestyles. Through wellness relationships with fitness and weight management partners we are here to support you in whatever your lifestyle goals
Company values
- By fans, for fans - By Fans = Bringing passion and pride to the work we do; For Fans = Exceeding fan expectations
- One fanatics... Win as a team - Our combined efforts; growing and succeeding together; WE before ME
- Missionary, not mercenary - At Fanatics, working here is more than a paycheck, it’s doing what you love everyday
- Innovative products and fan experiences - Offering fans unique products and ultimate experiences – there is no one else doing what we do, better than we do it
- Execution and agility... Over talk - Quickly adapting and delivering our best in a fast-paced, high growth environment while maintaining humility
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
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Founders
Michael Rubin
(CEO)Michael founded GSI Commerce in 1998, before co-owning New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia 76ers since 2011. They also founded Fanatics in 2011 alongside roles at ShopRunner, Rue La La, Reform Alliance and Kynetic.
Doug Mack
(Vice Chairman and Board Director, not founder)Previously served as CEO for One Kings Lane. Co-founded and acted as CEO and Director of Scene7.
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