Job Posting: TrackMan Baseball Product Manager

Position: Product Manager, TrackMan Baseball – Baseball Research, Analytics, and Reports

Job description:
TrackMan is looking for an experienced product manager to further develop and expand their baseball research, analytics and reporting products, services, and capabilities.

TrackMan is a Danish company founded, owned and managed since 2003 by three entrepreneurs with a strong passion for sports. Today, they have a global footprint with their headquarters located in Denmark (Vedbaek) and offices in New York, Phoenix, Poland and Tokyo. They employ more than two hundred and fifty people worldwide, half of whom work in Denmark where most of their hardware and software products are developed, tested and manufactured.

Serving as product manager, you will lead TrackMan Baseball’s team of analysts, conduct research to gain key insights from TrackMan data, and develop the baseball reports and tools necessary for all TrackMan customers to use and find value in TrackMan’s unique and valuable data. Customers include not only all professional baseball teams globally, but internal users as well. As a baseball analytics expert with knowledge on the use of data throughout TrackMan’s customer organizations, you will provide guidance and insights to drive their overall business.

If you are a baseball data expert and can create and manage products, this is an exciting opportunity for you to help TrackMan further revolutionize and impact the game of baseball. In the United States, TrackMan technology is installed in all major league and all minor league stadiums, used by all 30 MLB teams for player development and evaluation, and is a core component of MLB’s award-winning StatCast system.

Baseball Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) team management

Serving as the baseball analytics lead for TrackMan baseball, you will:

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  • Lead a talented and established team of analysts and BI developers
  • Be a thought leader both internally and externally on baseball data, and its application and use across baseball
  • Survey latest methods and advancements in baseball research to support TrackMan Baseball
  • Develop leading data-driven, baseball insights benefitting TrackMan’s broad customer base
  • Assist the TrackMan Baseball team in building and managing a sales pipeline for reports and analytics-driven businesses

Product Management and Development

Serving as the product lead for TrackMan Baseball’s research, analytics, and reporting offerings, you will:

  • Identify, research, and quantify new data-driven opportunities across all segments of the baseball market, and present findings to management for consideration.
  • Interact with, and at times collaborate with, global customers and users.
  • Develop and execute an analytics/reporting/tools-based product strategy and roadmap, offering customers the ability to best use TrackMan’s valuable baseball data.
  • Develop and manage baseball analytics and BI-based products and services that serve their multiple customer users and stakeholders, including baseball operations, coaches, player development, and scouting.
  • Develop visualizations and methods for disseminating analytical results for a variety of users, including less technically and analytically inclined users.
  • Work closely with TrackMan’s Denmark-based data engineering team, and collaborate with US, European, and Asian-based counterparts in developing products and services.

Requirements:

  • Strong statistical and database understanding along with excellent verbal and written skills.
  • Extensive baseball knowledge with experience in the latest baseball research and trends.
  • Product development or product management experience.
  • Understanding of agile SW development process.
  • Strong baseball industry knowledge and experience.
  • Experience with leading Business Intelligence SW tools and statistical SW packages.
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Excellent people management and leadership skill with the ability to attract, recruit, and retain great people.
  • Strong work ethic with an attention to detail, and an ability to self-direct.
  • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university is required.
  • Advanced degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, or other quantitative discipline is desired.
  • 5+ years relevant industry experience encompassing quantitative analysis.
  • 3+ years of experience managing staff or leading development or research teams.

To Apply:
Applications are continuously assessed, so please send your application as soon as possible. To apply, please visit this site.





Meg is the editor-in-chief of FanGraphs and the co-host of Effectively Wild. Prior to joining FanGraphs, her work appeared at Baseball Prospectus, Lookout Landing, and Just A Bit Outside. You can follow her on Bluesky @megrowler.fangraphs.com.

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Just A Guy
7 years ago

What is the location for this position? Is it remote or is this person expected to work out of one of their offices in Denmark, New York, Phoenix, Poland and Tokyo?

JoserMember since 2021
7 years ago
Reply to  Just A Guy

“For additional information about the position, please contact HR Manager Lene E. Olesen at 1-480-757-7650 Ext. 295. “