About this Senior Technical Product Manager - Monitoring & Performance role at PrizePicks
At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 550 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together?
As Senior Technical Product Manager for Monitoring & Performance, you’ll own the products and platforms that keep PrizePicks fast, observable, and resilient at scale. You’ll partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, and SRE to turn performance and reliability from a reactive scramble into a competitive advantage. Your customers are our own engineers, and your job is to make their day-to-day measurably better.
What you’ll do:
- Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to find the bottlenecks, gaps, and opportunities across our internal development lifecycle.
- Own the full product lifecycle for performance and monitoring initiatives - from discovery through delivery and iteration.
- Translate engineering needs into clear requirements and user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
- Prioritize initiatives by impact, urgency, and feasibility so the team ships the highest-value work first.
- Define success metrics, then use data to measure impact, surface insights, and inform trade-offs.
- Act as the voice of our internal engineers, making sure what we build solves real problems and is easy to adopt.
- Communicate goals, progress, and decisions clearly - to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
What success looks like:
You’ll know you’re winning when:
- Application performance and scalability are trending up, and everyone can see it.
- Errors and incidents drop in frequency, severity, and time to resolution.
- Developer satisfaction is climbing — our engineers feel the difference.
- Release frequency increases while regression time shrinks.
- Developer productivity is measurably higher than the day you started.
- The infrastructure technical debt backlog is shrinking instead of growing.
What you have:
- 5+ years in product management or a closely related discipline.
- 3+ years working on platform, developer experience, and/or infrastructure products.
- A success record of interfacing between developer and infrastructure teams.
- Comfort with scrum/agile ceremonies and processes.
- A track record of thriving in high-growth or startup environments.
- The ability to learn quickly and ask the right questions about new technical and domain concepts.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
What makes you stand out:
- Industry experience in fintech and/or gaming.
- Hands-on background as a product, infrastructure, or site reliability engineer.
- Familiarity with modern observability and monitoring tooling, SLOs/SLIs, and incident management practice.
- Experience driving adoption of error budgets to make roadmap decisions.
Where you’ll live:
- While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates. #LI-Remote
Working at PrizePicks:
The typical salary range for this position is $170,000 to $180,000. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your
recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process.
This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting.
Date Posted: 8/19/26
Benefits you’ll receive:
In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks:
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Annual bonus
- Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
- Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
- Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
- Company-wide in-person events and team outings
- Lifestyle enhancement program
- Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
- Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development
You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
