BettingJobs are working with a fast-growing technology company, delivering innovative solutions to the gaming industry. Their business is all about predictive sports modelling and risk management, underpinned by extensive use of a wide and ever-expanding array of real-time feeds and inputs.
The Role
As their first dedicated Product Owner, you will support the Chief Product Officer by taking responsibility for some key day‑to‑day project execution, taking full ownership of high‑impact initiatives already in development.
You will work with two agile dev squads (~3 developers + 1 back‑end each), ensuring the projects are driven over the line with high quality and a consistent pace.
You’ll translate well‑defined specs into actionable tickets, run key ceremonies, keep velocity transparent, and join client calls from week one to ensure you’re exposed to clients’ needs and wants.
Key Responsibilities:
* Own a subset of our project delivery from hand‑over to go‑live—scope clarification, backlog grooming, sprint admin, acceptance testing, and release coordination.
* Author detailed Jira tickets and maintain a healthy backlog; ensure devs understand requirements and edge cases.
* Run stand‑ups (5 min, three times a week), story‑point estimation, and create/close sprints; produce velocity and burndown reports.
* Verify solutions against spec, flagging deviations early and driving fixes.
* Weekly checkpoint with the CPO to surface risks and propose course corrections.
* Participate in client calls from week one; over time, own selected client relationships end‑to‑end.
* Support continuous improvement of agile processes; bring an eye for metrics and an appetite for tweaking ceremonies.
* Champion UX quality—provide quick wireframes or prototypes (Figma, V0, etc.) or brief designers appropriately.
What You’ll Need For This Role:
* Prior experience as a Product Owner/Manager.
* Sports‑betting experience.
* Proven agile toolkit—running stand‑ups, estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives; ideally using Jira.
* Excellent communication skills; comfortable holding developers to account and pushing back diplomatically; comfortable representing the product team to external clients and internal stakeholders.
* Good grasp of modern engineering concepts and ability to converse with technical teams.
* Willingness to travel to London HQ roughly every few weeks (or one day per week if London‑based).
Nice to have, any of:
* Keen eye for UX; able to create quick wireframes/prototypes or brief designers effectively.
* Trading, maths, or software‑engineering background.
* Previous client account‑management exposure.