Product Owner - Sports Data

Product Owner – Sport Data
£42,770 – £64,150
Hybrid – 2 days a week in London, Basingstoke or Bristol

Join Our Team at Hawk-Eye Innovations

Hi, I’m Dan Payne, Product Director here at Hawk-Eye Innovations, and I’m excited to invite you to join our team as a Product Owner. If you’re passionate about creating cutting-edge products that redefine sports technology, this role is for you.

Hawk-Eye Innovations have been at the forefront of sports officiating and broadcast enhancement technology since 2001. The world's biggest sporting events trust Hawk-Eye to make the right call, when it matters most.

Your Impact:

As a Product Owner, you will help define and translate user and business requirements into actionable work and be an essential part of enhancing our tracking services, related products and features.

Your understanding of data ingestion and delivery technology, product, value and business, as well as experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders and leads, are some of the skills you may expect to use in this role.

Your week might include:
● Helping drive the future of Hawk-Eye’s data delivery services, serving as the voice of the user, client and business goals
● Working with users as well as external and internal stakeholders to analyse their needs and translate those into product requirements
● Contributing to the Vision, Roadmap and ROI of the product portfolio
● Developing the scope, defining and prioritising backlog items (epic/features/user stories) that help guide Agile software engineering teams
● Communicating the story detail and priorities to ensure the team aligns and agrees on the plan
● Collaborating with other Product team members, Engineering and Delivery to ensure common processes are being adhered to for consistency across the product portfolio
● Writing requirements and user acceptance criteria to meet the Definition of Ready, and validating that completed work meets its Definition of Done
● Ensuring operational training, documentation and testing is completed as appropriate and in good time for the product to be rolled out and adopted into BAU
● Managing, overseeing and contributing to 3rd line support for the product
● Ensuring product meets targets for customer SLAs
● Defining success metrics, objectives and key results and monitoring the data to help make business decisions
● Understanding the end-to-end customer experience and dependencies
● Being accountable for the created product, delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners
● Acting as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product
● Researching and analysing competitors and the market to inform the strategic roadmap for the product and contribute towards the wider product vision
● Occasional international travel to meet users and customers

What We’re Looking For

You don’t need to tick every box, but here’s what we’d ideally love to see:

Must-haves:
● Ideally, 2 years in a Product Manager or Product Owner role managing all stages of the digital product life cycle with relevant stakeholder management experience
● Experience scoping and building new data feeds and understanding how they get used by both internal and external stakeholders
● Experience with data delivery technology, API development and message queuing, preferably within sports
● Experience with AWS or similar technologies and infrastructure
● Some experience with REST and/or GraphQL APIs
● Experience working with sports data
● Experience working with technically complex products
● Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver on common goals
● Experience in writing requirements and acceptance criteria
● Client-facing and internal communication skills
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Product roadmap definition experience
● Understanding the technologies used in the products worked on
● Experience working on products that combine software and hardware

Rewards, Benefits, and Wellness:

United Kingdom
● 25 days of annual leave plus 8 public holidays
● Enhanced pension scheme with 5% matching
● Complimentary Unmind app for mental wellbeing
● Onsite gym (Basingstoke)
● Access to Sony Group discounts and exclusive events

Hungary
● Annual leave in line with local labour laws
● Sony Group perks – discounted tickets and event access
● Cafeteria package options (SZÉP Card, nursery/kindergarten support, MOL Bubi Pass)
● Private medical, life and accident insurance, plus dental discounts
● “All You Can Move” Pass option for gym access
● Employee Assistance Program and seniority awards

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you’re ready to take the lead in delivering innovative sports technology solutions, we’d love to have you on board. At Hawk-Eye Innovations, you’ll be part of a team revolutionising the way sports are experienced worldwide.

Apply today to join our journey.