Job Description
About Sleeper
Sleeper is on a mission to connect people over sports through games and community. As one of the fastest-growing platforms in the fantasy sports and real-money gaming space, we’re redefining how sports fans engage—whether it’s through season-long leagues, pick’em contests, or real-time interactions with friends.
Our team is lean, passionate, and product-driven. We obsess over user experience and believe that building delightful, fast, and reliable products is the best way to grow. Backed by some of the most respected investors in Silicon Valley, including Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst, we’re building the future of sports engagement.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to be the connective tissue across engineering, design, and growth as we scale the platform behind tens of millions of passionate sports fans.
This is Sleeper’s first dedicated project management hire. You’ll hold the full context of every project you run, drive accountability against deadlines, and keep cross-functional work moving. You’ll be the person who makes sure design has the specs, engineering has what they need to ship, and growth knows what’s launching and when.
You’ll work closely with leadership across the company and have the latitude to shape how project management functions at Sleeper from the ground up.
What You’ll Do
• Own end-to-end execution across multiple concurrent projects—partnering with engineering, design, and growth from kickoff through launch.
• Hold the full context of every project you run, tracking scope, dependencies, blockers, and timelines across teams.
• Lead working sessions and standups, drive accountability against deadlines, and surface risk early through clear written communication.
• Contribute to specs and project documentation alongside engineering and design, ensuring scope is well-defined and decisions are recorded.
• Coordinate cross-functional rollouts so growth, design, and engineering are aligned on what’s shipping and when.
• Build leverage through AI tooling—automate the routine parts of your workflow so you can scale your impact.
Who You Are
• 7+ years of project, program, or delivery management experience, with a track record of running multiple complex programs simultaneously at fast-moving consumer tech, gaming, or fintech companies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills—you can translate between engineers, designers, and business stakeholders without losing nuance.
• Highly organized with a track record of running multiple concurrent projects without dropping the ball.
• Comfortable working with engineers—you can earn their respect, push back when scope or timelines feel off, and stay collaborative even under pressure.
• Technically fluent enough to read a PRD, ask the right questions about technical tradeoffs, and use tools like Claude Code or Codex day-to-day.
• You actively look for ways to automate the boring parts of your job and have an opinion on how AI tools make project management more leveraged.
• Bonus: Passion for sports, gaming, or building consumer products at scale.
Why Join Sleeper?
• Massive Impact – Your work will touch millions of users and help shape the next generation of sports entertainment.
• High Ownership – We trust our team to make high-leverage decisions and drive meaningful outcomes.
• Startup Agility – Move fast, ship often, and see your work in the hands of users quickly.
• Culture-First Team – We’re a team of builders, thinkers, and sports lovers who value humility, collaboration, and having fun along the way.
What We Offer
• Competitive salary ($135,000–$175,000/year not inclusive of stock options and benefits)
• Equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company matching
• Generous PTO and hybrid work policy (San Francisco)
• Opportunities for fast career growth in a high-impact role
• A small, focused team where your contributions truly matter
