Company Overview

Fanatics is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise and changing the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel and jerseys. Through an innovative, tech-infused approach to making and selling fan gear in today's on-demand culture, Fanatics operates more than 300 online and offline stores, including the e-commerce business for all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and more than 200 collegiate and professional team properties, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs (Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City). Fanatics offers the largest collection of timeless and timely merchandise whether shopping online, on your phone, in stores, in stadiums or on-site at the world's biggest sporting events.

About the Team

Fanatics is first and foremost a technology company. We are powered by cutting-edge tech created by our small agile teams using the latest tools and technologies under our highly analytical, forward thinking, and open-minded leadership. As the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, we challenge ourselves by improving our new fully responsive NodeJS cloud commerce platform, Elasticsearch engine, and deep data science capabilities while building the best-in-class retail manufacturing and supply chain technologies. Our tech teams work together to revolutionize data science and engineering initiatives, provide highly scalable real-time and streaming platforms, and create secure e-commerce and in-stadium fan experience products. Our own e-commerce platform transacts in over 190 countries, 17 languages, and 14 currencies. Our motto is “#GSD”—get stuff done—and we do just that. If you want to be at the nexus of sports, commerce, and technology, come be a part of our industry-leading team here at Fanatics Tech.

The selected candidate will:

• Manage software development, delivery and integration of e-commerce projects in a fast paced, Agile development environment.
• Help manage planning, scheduling, estimating, forecasting, coordinating, controlling, and delivering all activities for projects and related release initiatives.
• Drive day-to-day progress of project(s) and release initiatives with regard to time, budget, scope and quality
• Help integrate activities with other IT departments to set priorities and establish backlog to support the needs of the Company.
• Monitor costs and resource allocation to ensure optimal capacity for team.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or related discipline with IT focus.
• 5-7 yr experience in working with retail business stakeholders and a highly technology driven engineering org.
• Prior experience delivering eCommerce-based projects – backend to front end.
• Prior experience in large scale web development.
• Prior experience with an eCommerce, cloud-based website.
• Good understanding of technical environment and CI/CD release life-cycle.
• Sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving through technology solutions.
• Project management mastery with ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in cross-functional environment.

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

The selected candidate will:

• Manage software development, delivery and integration of e-commerce projects in a fast paced, Agile development environment.
• Help manage planning, scheduling, estimating, forecasting, coordinating, controlling, and delivering all activities for projects and related release initiatives.
• Drive day-to-day progress of project(s) and release initiatives with regard to time, budget, scope and quality
• Help integrate activities with other IT departments to set priorities and establish backlog to support the needs of the Company.
• Monitor costs and resource allocation to ensure optimal capacity for team.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or related discipline with IT focus.
• 5-7 yr experience in working with retail business stakeholders and a highly technology driven engineering org.
• Prior experience delivering eCommerce-based projects – backend to front end.
• Prior experience in large scale web development.
• Prior experience with an eCommerce, cloud-based website.
• Good understanding of technical environment and CI/CD release life-cycle.
• Sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving through technology solutions.
• Project management mastery with ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in cross-functional environment.

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.