Delivery-Focused Product Manager: Backlog & Onboarding

FanDuel; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + bonus

Pension

Private healthcare

Share save scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

FanDuel in Edinburgh is seeking a Product Manager, Delivery to own the development backlog and drive delivery with the engineering team across the Acquisitions & Onboarding domain. This delivery-focused role requires turning high-level needs into well-groomed epics, stories and tasks, and ensuring what ships meets the necessary quality bar.

You will collaborate with lead Product Managers, manage risks, dependencies and tradeoffs, and advocate for clear acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in product, with at least 2 years owning a development backlog.
• Hands-on experience running refinement and sprint planning, writing acceptance criteria, and signing off delivered work.
• Technical fluency: discussing APIs, data flows, and system dependencies with engineering; you don't need to code.
• Track record of spotting risks and dependencies early and keeping stakeholders ahead of changes to the plan.
• Clear, structured writing communication; tickets and updates are easy to act on.
• Autonomy in day-to-day prioritization and knowing when to elevate.
• Experience in regulated domains is a plus.
• Adjacent skill set welcome.

Responsibilities

• Own the backlog’s priorities, epics and stories refinement.
• Lead delivery by running refinement and sprint planning with engineering team.
• Partner with tech leads to manage prioritizing development work.
• Gather details behind high-level requirements to turn into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical tasks.
• Create and own spikes to investigate size and feasibility of work and monitor team’s output.
• Manage risks by identifying and highlighting dependencies, inside and outside of the team.
• Keep people informed with maintained records of risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions.

Skills

Backlog management

Sprint planning

Requirements gathering

Technical fluency

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Prioritization

Job description

FanDuel in Edinburgh is seeking a Product Manager, Delivery to own the development backlog and drive delivery with the engineering team across the Acquisitions & Onboarding domain. This delivery-focused role requires turning high-level needs into well-groomed epics, stories and tasks, and ensuring what ships meets the necessary quality bar.

You will collaborate with lead Product Managers, manage risks, dependencies and tradeoffs, and advocate for clear acceptance criteria.