Product Manager (Trading Integrations - 1 year Fixed Term Contract)

Company Description

We’re Entain. Powered by our very own technology and building products that push boundaries, Entain is home to a global family of more than 25 well-known brands and over 24,000 people, but we all play for the same team. When we win, we win together.

 
Our vision is to be the world leader in betting, gaming and interactive entertainment by bringing moments of excitement into people’s lives. We will achieve this through our focus on sustainability and growth, driving change in the fast-paced world of entertainment. 

To support this vision, we have built a global Sports Betting and Trading product that serves our customers in many of our key markets across the globe, and we’re looking to consolidate the UK customers and product experience to this platform via a multi-year migration programme.

Job Description

We are looking for exceptional self-starting Product Manager playing an individual-contributor role to bridge known product gaps and own end-to-end delivery with a dedicated team of contract engineers, with support and enablement from existing teams.

Our Product Managers are focused on delivering value through detailed requirements and prioritisation, centred around customer outcomes, collaborating with stakeholders and leading their Product team.

The focus areas will be across back-end feed integrations from 3rd party suppliers, integrated through the core Trading platform through to the Betting Platform, which handles bet placement transactions, and ensuring that the data and requirements are met to enable a great Customer experience for valued players on site, either through internal collaboration with Front-end squads, or via a cross-functional squad.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead on Product migration deliverables, ensuring quality, effective and timely product delivery.
• Leading on discovery, prioritization, and execution of product initiatives.
• Ensures a culture of customer closeness across the squad, driving an iterative approach to achieve outcomes.
• Leverages agile methodologies. 
• Ensures product metrics are in-place that demonstrate product impact for our customers and our business. 
• Collaborates closely with the wider Programme leaders ensuring our OKRs and roadmaps are aligned to our migration objectives

Competencies / Behaviours

• Stakeholder management: able to influence, challenge and improve relationships with stakeholders.
• Collaboration: Communicates effectively with a positive impact
• Drives performance: Continually raises the bar for oneself (and others)
• Acts with integrity: Takes ownership and does the right thing
• Delivers results: Plans for success and gets the job done

Qualifications

Essential:

• A demonstrated track record of successfully managing products from concept to market
• Excellent understanding of the product development lifecycle
• Demonstrated understanding and experience of agile methodologies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities – proven ability to engage with engineers, designers and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
• Strong betting industry experience and deep understanding of betting lifecycle. Strong understanding of interaction of a betting engine with other dependent systems (frontend, trading, account platform)
• Strong ability to comprehend dependencies within a complex service and microservice ecosystem.

• Comfortable with adjusting the roadmap in response to short-notice regulatory requirements, with a strong understanding of how regulators operate, and the underlying processes involved.

Desired:

• Experience dealing with suppliers in the Sports Betting and Gaming industry
• Knowledge of Horse Racing and Virtuals and Numbers products in the Sports Betting industry.

Additional Information

This role is a fixed-term contract for an initial 1-year period, with potential opportunities to extend given the nature of this exceptional multi-year platform migration programme.

At Entain, we do what's right. It's one of our core values and that's why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future - for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated. 

We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.