OVERVIEW:
The Sportradar sportsbook is central platform in which all Sportradar products come together as a seamless one-stop shop for operators.
We are looking for a Head of Sportsbook product with an excellent knowledge of Sportsbetting and the e-gaming industry products from both an end user and operator perspective, including:
- Strong market knowledge and experience in the Sport betting and E-gaming industries
- Planning and coordinating product development, mainly digital products based on cloud.
- Third party content feeds
- Front end display and functionality
- Bet acceptance and settlement processes.
- Regional product differentiations.
THE CHALLENGE:
- Working closely with the unit leadership to drive the development of a product strategy that fits with the company vision and strategy.
- Working collaboratively to produce and manage the Sportsbooks product road map.
- Being the ambassador for the product and the primary contact for queries relating to the product.
- Engage with other unit’s Heads of Product, understanding and aligning the roadmaps as required.
- Managing a team of highly motivated and competent product managers to drive forward the Sportsbook product in the market.
- Understanding of the software development and product development life cycles.
- Understanding and breaking down Product initiatives into requirements and Epics.
- Understand the business value behind feature requests and create a suitable business case for Initiatives and Epics if needed.
- Ensuring that projects stay on track to achieve delivery commitments, including problem solving and trade off analysis when necessary.
- Working with the development team and monitoring the progress of projects during the development cycle to ensure that they have the correct functionality according to the scope.
- Taking part in demonstrations of software releases and collecting feedback on improvements for future development.
- Continually researching the market, our competitors, customer usage behaviour and technology trends to ensure that we maintain market leading products.
YOUR PROFILE:
- You should have at least five years' experience in Product Management.
- You should have three years management experience.
- You should have a fundamental understanding of the customer experience of using sports betting products.
- You should be familiar with the regional differences of sports betting products.
- Having experience of both retail and online sports betting products is an advantage.
- You will have a collaborative attitude with all stakeholders during the visioning and scoping of projects.
- You need to be a creative and strategic thinker with problem solving skills
- You must have attention to detail in product design.
- You will have a good understanding of the development process and product development lifecycle and have experience and full domain of Agile methodologies.
- You will require good organisational and time management skills and the ability to work across different teams to deliver a common goal
- You will have experience of defining a minimum marketable product and a minimum viable product.
- You will have experience in defining road maps and prioritizing project backlogs.
- You will have good presentation and leadership skills
- You will have a basic understanding of the technologies used in product development.
- You will need to demonstrate great communication and presentation skills in English. Spanish a second language that will be considered an advantage.
If you think you’re up to the challenge, come and help us to grow, innovate and develop!