Senior Product Manager I ( Product Owner- Sports Products)

At Nielsen, we are passionate about powering a better media future for all people by providing powerful, essential insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content—wherever and whenever it's consumed. Gracenote, a Nielsen Company, is the world's leading provider of entertainment metadata and content IDs. We sit at the intersection of media, technology, and data, helping the world's largest entertainment brands connect people to the content they love. Gracenote Sports is a global operation that collects, manages, and delivers live results and comprehensive sports data across all major global and local leagues—from the Premier League, NFL, and Formula 1 to the Olympics and IPL—serving customers who rely on accurate, real-time sports information. We are seeking a hands-on product owner to support the Gracenote Sports product team in building, consolidating, and delivering our sports data and product ecosystem. In this role, you will work closely with the lead Product Manager to ensure development teams have well-defined backlogs, clear priorities, and a deep understanding of the "what" and "why" behind their work. Critically, you will also serve as the bridge between product strategy and engineering execution—able to understand and communicate the "how" in both directions. Gracenote Sports is at a pivotal point: unifying legacy platforms into a single, consolidated database and tooling ecosystem, while simultaneously designing a data model capable of representing the full diversity of global sports and competition formats—and delivering that data through customer-facing products (Global Sports Data API, Global Sports Widgets). This role will be instrumental in accelerating that transformation by embedding product ownership directly within engineering teams and ensuring day-to-day delivery stays aligned with the broader sports product roadmap. The ideal candi