Daniel Haight
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
Foster City, CA, United States
Toptal member since April 17, 2024
Dan is a results-driven executive with experience across product management, strategy, and operations. He led the paid fantasy sports and sports betting integrations across Yahoo Fantasy, Yahoo Sports, and other Yahoo properties. He also led a payment platform and Yahoo Fantasy Wallet to manage payments across all paid games at Yahoo Sports. Dan is passionate about collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to build long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships.
Case Studies
Yahoo Paid Fantasy Compliance
Yahoo Sportsbook
Yahoo Fantasy Best Ball
Expertise
- Business Operations
- Leadership
- Online Gaming
- Operations
- Product Management
- Product Ownership
- Regulatory Compliance
- Strategy
Work Experience
Senior Director – Product Management
Yahoo Sports
- Developed and owned the product and business strategy for all Yahoo Sports paid gaming products, including Yahoo Sports' Daily Fantasy, Best Ball, and sports betting integrations.
- Managed P&L for Yahoo Sports' Daily Fantasy and led all operational aspects, including product development, business strategy, and contest operations.
- Grew Yahoo Sports' Daily Fantasy from launch to becoming the 3rd largest daily fantasy sports operator, with 3+ million users and $100 million in annual entry fees.
- Built the business operations strategy and processes that led to continually exceeding annual product and company goals.
- Created and grew Yahoo Fantasy Wallet, handling all deposits and withdrawals for over one million deposit accounts. I built and launched features such as identity verification, geo-location restrictions, self-exclusion options, and deposit limits.
- Represented product managers during sports betting strategic analysis, evaluating the industry and determining the company's best path forward. I evaluated 20+ potential partners and executed the deal implementation in the BetMGM partnership.
- Designed and launched Yahoo Sportsbook to aggregate sports betting content and odds, providing a seamless and revolutionary onboarding experience to BetMGM for users in legal betting jurisdictions.
Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
- Translated technology systems and functional requirements into realistic and documented budget requirements by working closely with program engineers, subject matter experts, and program managers.
- Prepared cost models that provided accurate and reliable bases for communicating key programmatic decision recommendations.
- Managed a team that modeled and updated lifecycle cost estimates for $3 billion, next-generation satellite communications.
Economist
Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Developed and created the first-ever nonresidential building construction index to complement the producer price index (PPI), the leading estimator of inflation among domestic producers.
- Provided previously unavailable nonresidential building construction pricing data to the American public, the US Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and businesses.
- Improved processes for data collection, ensuring timely and accurate price movement representations.
Education
Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Spanish
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Skills
Finance
Cost Estimation, Taxation
Output Software
Jira
Data & Analysis Software
Looker
Industry Expertise
Technology
Other
Google Workspace, Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Online Gaming, Slack, Google, Figma, Microsoft, Zoom, Asana, Critical Analysis, Sports Business, Media, Leadership, Teamwork, Product Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Cost Analysis, Data Research, Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Public Policy, Deal Execution, Negotiation, Product Ownership, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration
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