Penn Interactive (PI) is an interactive gaming company headquartered in Philadelphia. PI is the digital arm of PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ: PENN), the largest regional casino operator in the U.S.). Our mission is to challenge the norms of the gaming industry by building an immersive interactive gaming experience that is responsible, innovative, and fun. We are committed to helping our team members grow and succeed. We believe that hiring talented individuals that love what they do will help us win!
About the Role & Team
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Sportsbook team. The Sportsbook team here at Penn is responsible for working hand-in-hand with our Data Science, Engineering, and Data teams to support efficient development and deployment of models, forecasts, and simulations to help improve theScore Bet and ESPN Bet. Our team values creativity, collaboration, ingenuity, and ownership. We are looking for someone who is interested in joining a team responsible for building net new end-to-end sports data products to further our team’s mission of creating a world-class, data-driven product experience.
About the Work
As a key member of our Sportsbook team, you will:
- Lead the ideation, technical development, and launch of sports modeling products.
- Exhibit sound product judgment, understand fundamental sports analytics concepts, contribute to the product strategy, and lead delivery of that strategy.
- Establish product KPIs and goals, including short and long-term planning on how to achieve desired results.
- Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape requirements; communicate to stakeholders regularly.
- Lead cross-functional teams to prioritize product features.
- Own the end-to-end success of projects from requirements definition through design, development, launch, and post-launch analysis to drive future iterations of the product.
- Serve as subject matter expert for your products, capabilities and services, and aid in providing guidance to others in regard to this expertise.
- Develop and thoroughly present go-forward recommendations.
- Drive the continued growth of the Product Team through mentorship, developing best practices and continuous improvements targets.
- Other duties as required.
About You
- A bachelor's degree in business, engineering or a related field.
- 5+ years' experience in product management.
- Familiarity of data science best practices as it pertains to analyzing sports and projecting talent.
- Experience working with GCP or other Cloud Service Providers. Strong understanding of services such as CloudSQL, BigQuery, GKS, Argo Workflows, or other equivalent services.
- Ability to communicate across diverse cultures, languages, work styles, and personalities.
- Ability to create wireframes, product specifications and white papers.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to present work to executive staff.
- Highly analytical - exceptional data analysis skills. Ability to contribute the codebase, answer questions, and test hypothesis independently.
- Must be a self-starter, a team player and driven. You have the ability to roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to help your team win.
- Previous start-up and/or consulting experience is considered an asset.
- Biased towards action, a great collaborator, a master disambiguator/simplifier, and constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery.
- High bar for delivering quality - from your own contributions, to the people you work with, to the products you work on.
- Strong desire for continuous learning and growth of your skill set.
- Familiarity of sports wagering technology / products, retail in particular, is an advantage.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary with Employee Share Purchase Plan.
- Comprehensive Benefits package.
- Fun, relaxed work environment.
- Education and conference reimbursements.
- Parental leave top up.
- Opportunity for career progression and mentoring others.
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Recently being recognized as a top workplace in the United States, we believe people work their best when they can be themselves. We are looking for hungry, innovative thinkers to help us challenge the status quo of the gaming industry. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to all of our processes, programs, and structures. Your story, who you are, and your experience matter here.
