About the role
PlayOn Sports powers over 250,000 live high school sports events a year across NFHS Network, GoFan, and MaxPreps. The Growth team’s mission is to make it effortless for high school sports fans to find, subscribe to, and stay subscribed to PlayOn’s products. As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, you’ll be the technical anchor of a cross-functional pod alongside PM and Design — setting technical direction for our subscription growth surface, shaping how we run experiments at scale, and multiplying the effectiveness of the engineers around you. We’re looking for someone who has seen consumer subscription growth done well at scale and is ready to own it here. You operate beyond the ticket queue: you spot the problems worth solving before they’re assigned, you influence how the whole pod works, and you raise the floor of what “done well” means for growth engineering at PlayOn. The outcomes you'll deliver Ship a steady cadence of subscription growth experiments across web, mobile, and CTV with measurable impact on conversion, retention, or ARPU. Measurably reduce the pod’s experiment cycle time within six months by improving the tooling, process, or infrastructure that slows shipping. Establish the Growth team’s standard for experiment hygiene — feature flags, end-to-end validated instrumentation, Core Web Vitals preserved — so the whole pod ships at that bar. Define the technical roadmap for the Growth surface: the architecture decisions and platform investments that determine how fast the pod can move over the next 12–18 months. \n In this role, you can expect to Serve as the technical lead of the cross-functional product trio, owning technical strategy and driving feasibility assessments alongside PM and Design. Set the architectural direction for how PlayOn runs subscription growth experiments across NFHS Network, GoFan, and MaxPreps. Design, implement, and measure rapid experiments, iterating based on data to optimize conversion, retention, and engagement. Build internal tooling and experiment scaffolding that compounds the pod’s velocity over time. Leverage AI coding tools and agent-assisted workflows to accelerate experiment delivery and raise the quality bar for the pod. Identify and drive resolution of cross-team technical dependencies when growth work requires coordination beyond the pod. Mentor engineers on the pod through code and design reviews that move knowledge, not just catch bugs. To thrive in this role, you have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time at staff level or equivalent, with deep focus on consumer subscription growth. A track record of technical leadership beyond
