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Product Director - Sportsbook

Product Director - Sportsbook

4 Weeks ago • 7 Years + • Product Management • Operations

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Job Description

The Product Director for Sportsbook at Sporty Group owns the product roadmap, leading a team to deliver significant business growth. Responsibilities include managing ICs, leveraging data for product development (ideation to A/B testing), collaborating across functions (Product Management, Engineering, Product Design), and prioritizing features within an agile environment. The role requires strategic decision-making, data analysis to meet customer demands, and industry leadership (conferences, talks, publications). The ideal candidate has 7+ years of mobile/digital product management experience in a sportsbook setting, a proven track record of delivering successful products at scale, and a strong entrepreneurial mindset.

Must have:

7+ years mobile/digital Product Management (Sportsbook)
Successful mobile/Digital product delivery at scale
Data-driven decision making and execution
Excellent team building and cross-functional collaboration
Strong leadership and strategic thinking

Good to have:

Odds & Risk exposure
Mathematical skills
Sports interest

Perks:

Quarterly bonuses
Flexible hours
Top-of-the-line equipment
Referral bonuses
28 days paid annual leave
Annual company retreat
Payment via DEEL

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Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivaled sports entertainment, gaming, and social profile. We serve millions of users in several countries via technology and operations hubs on over 3 continents.

The recipe for our success is our intelligent and energetic team, who are passionate about our products and serving our users. We attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life that empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.

We have already built a capable and proven team of 300+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds, and we are looking for more talented individuals to drive further growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity, and hard work that currently serve our users further via their grit and innovation.

Purpose of the role

The Director of Product Management is a vital position that owns the product roadmap for the SportsBook. This position will lead a world-class team to deliver significant business growth through superior data analysis, innovation, and execution.

Responsibilities

Own the operation of the Sportsbook’s roadmap, bringing their knowledge and expertise to bear to deliver success at scale.

Manage several ICs to ensure excellence at every level, coaching and enabling them to succeed.

Ensures that data is pivotal to development, from ideation to A/N experimentation.

Demonstrates an understanding of the issues affecting the company and makes strategic decisions to ensure the company navigates in the right direction.

Collaborate across various functions (Product Management, Engineering, Product Design) to develop overall product strategy and define the vision, roadmap, and goals for our products.

Provide fact-based data analysis to ensure new product offerings meet customer demands; provide superior quality at scale and distinguish Sporty from existing and future competitive offerings.

Oversee feature prioritization for the development teams and keep programs running on time within an agile development environment.

Ability to be an industry opinion leader, such as industry visibility, attending conferences, giving talks, publishing blog posts, hosting meetups

Requirements

Must be based in Europe.

7+ years mobile/digital Product Management, ideally at a Sportsbook.

Experience delivering successful mobile/Digital product(s), at scale, while owning vision, strategy, data and execution of that product line.

Prior start-up experience or an entrepreneurial mentality validated by success within unstructured environments, a rapid integration mindset, and a clear affinity for the customer.

An excellent team builder. Demonstrated ability to define, refine, and implement development processes, resource planning, metrics, and documentation.

Excellent customer management, project management skills and ability to work across functions to drive business goals.

Bias towards action

Past Exposure to Odds & Risk, general mathematical skills are a definite plus

Sports interest is a plus

Must be adept at using data to optimize user experiences

Benefits

Quarterly bonuses

We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this

Top-of-the-line equipment

Referral bonuses

28 days paid annual leave

Annual company retreat

Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation

Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system

Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful

Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members

Our Mission

Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone

Our Operating Principles

1. Create Value for Users

2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty

3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation

4. Be Responsible

5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty

6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy

7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability

8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride

Interview Process

Online Aptitude Test (Max time of 30 Minutes)

Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team

Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days)

24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process

Post Interview Process

Feedback call on successful interview

Offer released, followed by contract

ID Check Via Zinc & 2 references from previous employers

Working at Sporty

The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance-based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow, and de-block any issues when they're in your way.

Generally, employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups, etc. The emphasis is really on results.

As we are a highly structured and established company, we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to.

We literally build, spend, and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our team members.

Benefits

Quarterly bonuses

We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this

Top-of-the-line equipment

Referral bonuses

28 days paid annual leave

Annual company retreat

Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation

Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system

Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful

Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members

Our Mission

Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone

Our Operating Principles

1. Create Value for Users

2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty

3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation

4. Be Responsible

5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty

6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy

7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability

8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride

Interview Process

Online Aptitude Test (Max time of 30 Minutes)

Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team

Remote video interview with 3 x Team Members (45 mins each, not separate days)

24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process

Post Interview Process

Feedback call on successful interview

Offer released, followed by contract

ID Check Via Zinc & 2 references from previous employers

Working at Sporty

Generally, employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups, etc. The emphasis is really on results.

We literally build, spend, and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our team members.

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About The Company

Sporty Group

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Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platform which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.

The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.

We’re fortunate enough to have already built a capable and proven team of 500+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds with a common thirst for excellence and we are constantly looking for more talented individuals to power our growth and serve our users further via their grit and innovation.