Program Manager, Business Operations

About the role

FloSports is a world-class sports media company strategically positioned to be the essential destination for passionate sports fans, delighting them with live event coverage, breaking news, highlights, stats, rankings, and team and player profiles. We are growing Our Sports every day by continuing to invest in our ever-expanding ecosystem, which consists of over a dozen sport verticals and hundreds of streaming partners. FloSports is creating the home for college conferences/leagues and sports like grappling, hockey, track & field, racing, cheer, wrestling, and more, and we are looking for innovative and passionate people like you to help us!

The Role: FloSports is looking for a highly collaborative and execution-oriented Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs that support the company’s growth and operational evolution. Based in Austin, Texas, this role reports to the Director of Business Operations. A few characteristics which will make you successful in this role: You’re entrepreneurial, aren’t afraid of failure, and have demonstrated success while overcoming roadblocks; you’re collaborative and a quick study to understand what is important to many different stakeholders across the organization; you’re humble, receptive to feedback, and willing to roll up your sleeves and do the work yourself when needed; you can synthesize ambiguous problems and break them down into structured, manageable steps to solve.

Responsibilities

• Manage New Sport Vertical Launches
  • Lead the end-to-end program for launching new sports verticals, from pre-launch program design and planning through launch and post-launch growth.
  • Coordinate the commercial, operational, technical, production, partner, content, marketing, and customer-experience components of each launch.
  • Build and maintain an integrated roadmap for planned and potential vertical launches.
  • Lead post-launch reviews and incorporate lessons learned into FloSports’ vertical-launch framework.
• Lead Technology and Operational Transformation Programs
  • Lead cross-functional programs that introduce new technology, workflows, or operating models into FloSports’ business.
  • Support initiatives centered around new content-capture models, partner production technology, remote production capabilities, workflow automation, and operational tooling.
  • Develop phased implementation plans that may include product development, pilots, field testing, partner onboarding, training, deployment, and ongoing support.
  • Ensure new capabilities are operationally supportable, scalable, and aligned with the customer and partner experience.
  • Coordinate change-management activities to drive adoption, clarify new responsibilities, and transition programs into sustainable business operations.
• Coordinate Merger and Acquisition programs
  • Lead cross-functional due diligence across internal business units and senior external stakeholders (e.g., advisors, legal counsel, target leadership) to audit risk profiles, uncover operational dependencies, and evaluate target synergies.
  • Establish and implement scalable integration frameworks, governance structures, and playbooks that standardize post-merger execution and executive reporting.
  • Own Day 1 readiness plans including orchestrating workstream execution and communications to guarantee seamless business continuity upon deal close.
  • Drive post-merger synergy realization, tracking critical-path dependencies, operational efficiencies, and integration KPIs to ensure full capture of deal value.
• Apply Data and Financial Rigor
  • Build and maintain program budgets, forecasts, business cases, and financial models in partnership with Finance and functional leaders.
  • Evaluate potential initiatives using cost-benefit, ROI