About this role
Product Manager, Internal CMS | Contract
About the Role
Looking for a hands-on Product Manager / Product Builder to work directly on our internal Content Management System (CMS), including the authoring, publishing, and operational tools used by editors, producers, and operations teams to bring content and coverage to fans.
This is a highly tactical, execution-focused contract role. You will work closely with the people who use these tools every day, translate their needs into well-defined product opportunities, design and prototype workflows, and partner with engineering to deliver improvements within fixed development cycles.
In this role, product management and product design come together . You will frame problems, design user flows, build AI-assisted prototypes, validate solutions with editors and producers, and work with engineering through production launch and measurement.
Key Responsibilities
- Prototype solutions using AI-assisted and product design tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Figma, and Make , enabling stakeholders to react to tangible solutions before engineering commits development capacity.
- Design end-to-end CMS authoring and publishing workflows , including critical states and edge cases such as errors, empty states, concurrent edits, permissions, and deadline-sensitive publishing.
- Translate opportunities into clearly shaped product bets, including defined scope, success criteria, constraints, risks, and expected outcomes before development cycles begin.
- Conduct lightweight product discovery with editorial, production, and operations users through shadowing, usability testing, session reviews, and rapid experimentation.
- Establish measurable success criteria before development begins, including metrics such as:
Time to publish
- Error rates
- Task completion
- Feature adoption
- Workflow efficiency
- Analyze post-launch results and determine what should be improved or changed in subsequent product cycles.
- Manage day-to-day alignment across engineering, editorial, privacy, compliance, and business stakeholders to keep delivery moving.
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams on technical trade-offs, backend constraints, APIs, data models, and permissions.
- Ensure product experiences consistently leverage the design system and can be delivered with minimal engineering rework.
What Success Looks Like
- Development cycles begin with a clearly shaped product brief and validated workflow rather than a loosely defined idea.
- New features and workflows are delivered in reliable increments and consistently follow the established design system.
- Editors and producers experience measurable improvements in workflow speed, usability, and reliability.
- Each product bet includes a post-launch readout detailing what improved, what did not, and what should change in the next cycle.
- Engineering teams view the Product Manager as a trusted partner in technical and product trade-offs rather than simply a requirements handoff.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience delivering internal tools, workflow products, CMS platforms, or similar solutions as a Product Manager, Product Designer, or a combination of both.
- Strong hands-on interaction and UX design skills , including:
Clear information hierarchy
- Intuitive workflows
- Sensible defaults
- Error handling
- Edge-case design
- Production-quality user experiences
- Experience working closely with backend technologies and constraints, including APIs, data models, integrations, roles, and permissions .
- Demonstrated ability to design solutions within technical constraints rather than treating technical implementation separately from product design.
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted prototyping and development tools , ideally including Cursor and Claude Code.
- Experience with Figma or equivalent product design/prototyping tools.
- Strong understanding of product analytics, experimentation, and outcome-based measurement.
- Ability to define success metrics before development and evaluate product performance after release.
- Experience conducting user discovery, usability testing, and rapid product validation.
- Ability to onboard quickly, operate independently, and deliver effectively with minimal oversight.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Profile
We are especially interested in candidates who have experience with:
- Internal CMS or content publishing platforms
- Editorial or newsroom workflows
- Media, streaming, sports, or digital content products
- Workflow-heavy enterprise applications
- AI-assisted product development and prototyping
- Fast-paced environments with fixed delivery cycles
- Cross-functional product, design, and engineering ownership
Working Environment
This team operates around shaped product bets, fixed delivery cycles, builder ownership, and outcome-focused success metrics .
Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers work collaboratively rather than operating through traditional handoffs. Contractors are expected to function as fully integrated members of the product squad, with the same access to tools and the same expectations around speed, quality, collaboration, and ownership.
The internal CMS sits directly within fast-moving sports and editorial workflows, where deadlines and live events make speed and reliability especially important. This creates a rapid feedback loop in which product improvements can be validated directly with the people using the platform.