BettingJobs are working with a B2B iGaming technology company who are looking for a Sportsbook Technical Product Owner with an excellent knowledge of sports betting products from both an end user and operator perspective, including;
• Third party content feeds
• Front end display and functionality
• Bet acceptance and settlement processes.
• Regional product differentiations.
Key Responsibilities:
• Working closely with senior management to ensure that the company develops product that fits with its strategic goals.
• Working collaboratively to produce and manage the Company’s development road map and ensuring that there is always a suitably prioritized backlog of user stories ready for implementation.
• Being the ambassador for the product and the primary contact for queries relating to the product.
• Suggesting quality ideas to improve the sportsbook products and producing user specifications with sufficient details about the product features that they can be clearly understood by the development teams.
• Breaking down the specification into epics/features/user stories that guide the Agile development team.
• Understand the business value behind feature requests and be able to prioritise them in the development backlog.
• Helping to solve product related problems and highlighting risks and opportunities.
• 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, the competitors, customer usage behaviour and technology trends to ensure that we maintain market leading products.
Essential Requirements:
• You will take responsibility for the delivered products that you own.
• You should have a fundamental understanding of the customer experience of using sportsbetting products.
• You should be familiar with the regional differences of sportsbetting products.
• Having experience of both retail and online sportsbetting 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 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.
