BettingJobs are currently seeking a Trading Product Owner on behalf of a market-leading sportsbook brand. Working with a highly successful organisation that retains a start-up type culture, the Trading Product Owner will be responsible for developing and maintaining the trading product roadmap and ultimately delivering a first-class sports betting platform.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious sportsbook operation that continues to deliver a market-leading sportsbook offering. The Trading Product Owner role would be well suited to an individual with experience working in a sports trading environment in a Product Owner or similar role.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Product & Technology teams to create and manage a trading development roadmap that aligns with the broader strategy.
- Prioritising future sports integration projects, ensuring each aligns with a clear business benefit.
- Simplify complex trading concepts for effective communication across trading functions and business teams.
- Ensure smooth collaboration with both internal and external development teams for successful product deliveries.
- Foster relationships with development teams to guide user story creation, acceptance criteria, and user journeys.
- Provide detailed trading requirements documents for development team execution.
- Lead scrum teams by clarifying challenges, ensuring access to necessary resources and tools, and collaborating to develop effective trading solutions.
- Develop, negotiate, and adhere to budgets, crafting and sustaining business cases for upcoming trading needs.
- Assess and prioritize third-party and internal trading feature opportunities, incorporating data and market analysis into product planning.
- Conduct ongoing research and analysis of the Sportsbook market, including competitor benchmarking, to inform strategy and identify partnership opportunities.
Requirements:
- Experience in a Product Owner role or similar within a sports trading environment.
- Proficient in Agile software development practices to drive efficient and effective product development cycles.
- Ability to work closely with software engineers to identify and fix performance bugs, ensuring product quality in function, design, and user experience.
- Strong grasp of both technical and functional aspects of Sportsbook Trading platforms, including back-end and front-end operations.
- Experienced in enhancing trading operations through the integration of external trading tools and consoles.
- Ability to utilize market data, user feedback, and analytics to inform strategic product decisions.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to convey complex concepts to varied audiences.
- Efficient at time management, adept at prioritizing tasks to ensure every project is completed on schedule.
- Flexible working approach to accommodate collaboration with international teams across multiple time zones.
- Openness to travel for stakeholder engagement, partnership development, and participation in industry events.
This role can be remotely based within the European Union.