Lead Product Manager, Sportsbook, Bet Placement

theScore; Toronto; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading entertainment company as a Lead Product Manager for the sportsbook division. You will drive product initiatives, collaborate with various teams, and leverage data to enhance the user experience. This role offers the opportunity to lead in a fast-paced environment and make a significant impact in the sports betting industry.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Fun, relaxed work environment

Education and conference reimbursements

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in product management.
• 2+ years of people leadership experience.
• Experience in sports betting and managing B2C products.

Responsibilities

• Manage and innovate product initiatives for sportsbook.
• Define KPIs and track performance of products.
• Collaborate with business and marketing partners.

Skills

Leadership

Data-Driven Decision Making

Communication

Job description

Lead Product Manager, Sportsbook, Bet Placement

Toronto, ON

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming, sports betting and entertainment content, we deliver the experiences people want, how and where they want them.

We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether it’s through ESPN BET , Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino , or theScore media app, we’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.

When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are. If you want to challenge conventions in gaming, media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.

About the Role & Team
The Interactive Product Management team leads the strategy for Penn Interactive's incredible digital product portfolio – from ESPN BET, theScore Bet, theScore Media, and iCasino. This team impacts the way millions of people engage with our products in more personalized and immersive ways, leveraging bleeding-edge technologies.

As an enthusiastic and entrepreneurial product leader, you will manage, innovate, and execute on product initiatives that focus on growing the sports betting business.

In this role you will take on challenges in a fast-paced ever-changing environment. This is a high impact, high visibility role that will impact key features, innovation and scale. It requires strong collaboration with our sportsbook business leadership, and agility to drive the development of a Tier 1 Sportsbook product.

The right candidate is a seasoned product person and technically confident across a breadth of product disciplines relevant to our industry. You are also a business strategist, a skilled team leader and exceptional communicator, comfortable presenting to leadership.

About the Work

• Discover product solutions that contribute to growing the sportsbook business, while developing and planning a product strategy that aligns to long-term objectives.
• Define and report on KPIs that track performance of existing products and new features that drive improved bet placement and sportsbook handle.
• Utilize learnings (quantitative/qualitative) to drive data-informed prioritization and decision making.
• Ensure widespread awareness of the features/products launched through GTM strategies.
• Drive transparency and accountability when it comes to communication, product documentation and development process.
• Collaborate with business, marketing and trading partners to align and drive roadmap prioritization.
• Invest in the growth of the wider Product Team through coaching, developing best practices, and continuous improvements targets.
• Other duties as required.

About You

• 8+ years’ experience in product management, plus 2+ years of people leadership experience is required.
• Experience working in sports betting with an understanding of business drivers behind online sportsbooks is required.
• Experience in building core functionality and features of a sportsbook or similar platform that focuses on driving increases to bet placement rates and handle is required.
• Experience building, operating, and managing B2C products with millions of users.
• Ability to grasp product strategy and execution and how they align to business value.
• Demonstrated ability to use data to drive decisions and back up assumptions and recommendations.
• Strong leader with a competitive edge who can inspire, influence, build talent collaborate, and provide direction in a complex space that breeds results.
• Innate emotional intelligence with a proven ability to navigate complex topics with many stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication and comprehension skills with an ability to simplify complex concepts.
• Ability to work with engineering teams to go deep into technical concepts, make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks, evaluate alternative approaches, and make critical prioritization decisions.
• Experience managing and coaching product managers to deliver.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package.
• Fun, relaxed work environment.
• Education and conference reimbursements.
  

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theScore is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.

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