Lead - Trading Production, Soccer

What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates with a passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always

acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us?

What’s the position?

The Soccer Performance Lead will report to the Trading Performance Director, you will play a key role in defining our soccer trading and product strategy - identifying opportunities to expand market depth, improve feature engagement, and drive competitive differentiation.

Your focus will be on enhancing our soccer pricing, overseeing data feeds and third-party pricing, and creating bespoke prices where needed. The role requires close collaboration with the Quant team and the ability to communicate technical requirements to support the development and ongoing refinement of in-house models.

• Conduct regular competitor benchmarking across major operators to assess pricing competitiveness, market uptime, and soccer feature parity, identifying strengths, gaps, and opportunities for innovation.

• You will develop deep knowledge of our trading systems and external integrations and offer continuous feedback on the soccer feature set, market presentation, and overall usability to ensure a clear, engaging, and high-performing customer experience.

• Act as a subject-matter leader within the sportsbook function, sharing insights, mentoring peers, and influencing best practices across global trading teams.

What are we looking for?

You will be a decisive and analytical thinker, able to evaluate information quickly and make sound decisions that enhance the overall quality and performance of our soccer product. You will bring deep knowledge of global soccer, alongside experience working with sportsbook products, data feeds and performance reporting tools.

You will have excellent attention to detail, strong numerical and technical capabilities, and the ability to interpret data to identify trends, assess product performance, and recommend meaningful improvements. You’ll be proactive and well-organized, comfortable working around the global soccer schedule and responding to major events.

You will act as a key point of expertise within the team, supporting colleagues, sharing insights, and helping shape a high-performing culture focused on delivering the best possible soccer experience. You’ll collaborate across product, content, and analytics teams to ensure our soccer markets, features, and content are accurate, engaging, and aligned with our strategic goals.

Key attributes and experience include:

Soccer Expertise

Experienced senior soccer trader with deep knowledge of global soccer, including leagues, tournaments, team styles, player dynamics, and market behavior. Understanding how soccer-specific trends, data, and context influence market performance and customer engagement.

Third-Party Feed & Product Optimization
Proven ability to manage, assess, and optimize third-party pricing and data feeds for soccer markets. Experience ensuring data accuracy, resolving feed issues, and enhancing product performance and competitiveness across core and derivative soccer markets.

Analytical Ability

Assess the performance of soccer products, including features and pricing, and analyze large datasets to uncover value gaps, customer behaviors, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement. Prepare data-driven reports for senior stakeholders that highlight key trends, risks, and competitive insights.

Proficiency in Excel and performance platforms; experience with BI tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Tableau is an advantage.

Market & Performance Oversight
Monitor soccer market performance, customer activity, and pricing competitiveness. Oversee the soccer product catalog at competition and market level, ensuring compliance and suitability across all operating jurisdictions and demonstrating a thorough understanding of relevant integrity and regulatory requirements.

Communication & Collaboration
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain insights clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams and senior leadership. Ability to react quickly and logically in a fast-paced environment, particularly during high-volume soccer periods.

Flexibility
Comfortable working flexible hours aligned to the global soccer calendar, including evenings, weekends, and major match days.

What’s in it for you?

We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include:

• Competitive pay and benefits

• Flexible vacation allowance

• Flexible work-from-home or office hours

• Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand

• Opportunity to help shape the future strategy of the Sportsbook and Casino product

Roster of Uniques

We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us, and trust and empower our staff to own and drive that experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where—regardless of background or beliefs—you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunity employer).