Product Owner

Company Description

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

**Job Description**:
**OVERVIEW**:
The Sportradar Sportsbook is a brand of Sportradar's world-leading sports betting portfolio. We work with worldwide leading operators, such as Unibet, Mondobets, Betfred, Norsk Tipping, Efbet, Mclean's Bookmakers and the UK Bookmakers Technology Consortium including Chisholm Bookmakers, JenningsBet, Corbettsport and many others. Our robust, scalable, powerful and feature-rich sports betting platform ensures that OptimaMGS is at the forefront of the gaming industry.

We are looking for a Product Owner with an excellent knowledge of

sportsbetting platforms.

**THE CHALLENGE**:

- Working closely with senior management to ensure that the company develops product that fits with its strategic goals.
- Working with internal and external Stakeholders to understand their requirements and ensuring that the project scope has been interpreted correctly.
- Create epics and user stories to convey what is needed to the engineering side of the team.
- 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.
- Aligning the development team around a vision and roadmap for the product, informed by strategic and product roadmap.
- Being the ambassador for the product and the primary contact for queries relating to the product.
- Suggesting features to improve the platform experience for both customers and operators, 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, our competitors, customer usage behaviour and technology trends to ensure that we maintain market leading products.
- Creating release notes and ensuring that they are easy for consumers to understand.

**YOUR PROFILE**:

- You should have experience in the Sportsbetting industry as a product owner working in an agile methodology.
- You should have a fundamental understanding of the customer experience and optimisation in the online gaming domain.
- You will take responsibility for the delivered products that you own.
- 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.
- Degree or higher level of education.

Additional Information
- Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences_