Yahoo Sports hires Jarrod Schwarz as general manager
Yahoo Sports has hired Jarrod Schwarz as its new general manager, the company announced Wednesday. Schwarz, who most recently served as chief operating officer at BetMGM, will start this summer and take responsibility for the full Yahoo Sports business — product, design, technology, revenue, partnerships, and content — reporting to Ryan Spoon, president of Yahoo’s…
Credit: Yahoo Sports Yahoo Sports has hired Jarrod Schwarz as its new general manager, the company announced Wednesday. Schwarz, who most recently served as chief operating officer at BetMGM, will start this summer and take responsibility for the full Yahoo Sports business — product, design, technology, revenue, partnerships, and content — reporting to Ryan Spoon, president of Yahoo’s media group. The role has been vacant since last spring, when Spoon moved up to oversee Yahoo’s broader media operation.
It’s also a reunion, as previously noted by Puck’s John Ournad . The two go back to ESPN, where Spoon ran digital and social, and Schwarz worked alongside him in product and design. After ESPN, both landed at BetMGM, where Spoon became COO before eventually leaving for Yahoo .
Schwarz stepped into that same COO role and has now followed the same path to the same company. “I’ve spent my career at the intersection of sports, media, and technology, and Yahoo Sports is one of the few places that brings all three together at real scale,” Schwarz said in a prepared statement . “From fantasy to editorial to community, it fuels fandom at every moment that matters.
I’m looking forward to working with this talented team to deliver experiences that make us an indispensable part of every fan’s daily routine. ” Schwarz arrives with a background that spans sports, media, and technology over more than two decades. He was a vice president of product and design at ESPN, where he was involved in the development and launch of ESPN+, before moving to BetMGM, where he rose to chief operating officer.