Lead Product Owner

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Dynamic environment

Development opportunities

Job summary

Global Sports Jobs Limited is seeking a senior product delivery lead in Hong Kong to own multi-squad backlogs, define system behaviour, and drive cross-team execution in a fast-moving digital transformation programme.

You will partner with engineering, product, QA and vendors, translate requirements into actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria, and ensure delivery quality, regulatory compliance and successful launches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or related disciplines.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in product delivery, system behaviour definition, or software execution roles.
• Minimum 5 years of people management experience.
• Proven experience delivering complex, cross-team software in regulated or high-risk environments.
• Strong agile delivery experience and API/integration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-squad or programme-level backlog with clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain dependency-aware view and two-sprint readiness across squads.
• Support prioritisation and effort sizing with squads and PMs.
• Translate ambiguous product intent into clear specifications covering integrations, APIs, data flows and operational scenarios.
• Lead refinement and planning across squads and manage the integrated delivery plan.
• Coach junior product owners and improve delivery standards across the organisation.

Skills

Backlog management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-team coordination

Regulatory/compliance awareness

Vendor coordination

Requirements specification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or related disciplines

Job description

About the Role

This role sits within the Club's digital transformation programme, known internally as AOP, which aims to accelerate platform, product, people, performance and potential through innovation and delivery excellence. The programme's work spans product, technology, operations, delivery and change, creating next-generation experiences and strengthening the capabilities that support the Club's future growth. The role holder owns a multi-squad or programme-level backlog together with the detailed definition of product and system behaviour, and drives cross-team delivery execution, quality and post-launch iteration. The role works closely with engineering leads, product managers, QA, vendors and business-as-usual teams, and includes an optional coaching contribution to junior product owners.

Key Responsibilities

• Own a multi-squad or programme-level backlog aligned with PM strategy and enterprise constraints, breaking complex product intent into phased, buildable slices with clear user stories, acceptance criteria and edge-case logic.
• Maintain a dependency-aware view of increments to ensure two-sprint readiness across squads, and make autonomous day-to-day decisions on scope, sequencing and prioritisation to keep delivery moving.
• Support prioritisation and effort sizing with squads, engineering leads and PMs, producing consistent effort estimates and trade-off analyses and providing data-backed options covering cost, risk, timeline and operational impact.
• Translate ambiguous or multi-system product intent into clear, unambiguous specifications covering integrations, APIs, pricing engines, market-creation logic, legacy platforms, data flows and operational scenarios.
• Acting as the single owner of detailed requirements with no BA handoff and incorporating compliance, responsible gambling, security and operational considerations.
• Lead refinement and planning for multiple squads, ensuring engineering has clarity on behaviour and rules, and own the integrated delivery plan and dependency resolution across squads.
• Resolve ambiguity across teams without escalation and identify and remove cross-team blockers, technical sequencing issues and operational constraints.
• Accept completed increments and ensure they meet the intended UX and system rules, and provide go/no-go recommendations for cross-squad releases based on risk and operational readiness, escalating strategic scope changes to the PM.
• Escalate and coordinate with vendor partners and BAU owners when cross-squad resolution is not possible or solutioning becomes highly complex, acting as escalation owner to drive vendor remediation, contract-level decisions or BAU process changes.
• And ensure vendor-delivered components and BAU operational processes are validated with escalation paths defined and tested before release.
• Partner with QA to define comprehensive test coverage including negative paths and regulatory edge cases, validate end-to-end functionality across multiple integrated systems during QA, UAT and pre-production checks, and ensure operational readiness across Channels, Trading Operations and Customer groups.
• Support the PM and business users in launch planning, training and risk mitigation, and independently engage stakeholders across Compliance, Legal, Risk, Security, Trading and Operations to embed regulatory and operational constraints early in design and delivery.
• Analyse launch performance using data and customer behaviour insights, identify systemic issues and opportunities for iteration, own defect triage and behaviour clarification for cross-team production issues, and feed improvements back into the backlog.
• Coach junior product owners on story quality, acceptance criteria structure, backlog discipline, stakeholder handling and delivery flow, and contribute to improving delivery standards, patterns and operating models across the organisation.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or related disciplines.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in product delivery, system behaviour definition or software execution roles.
• Minimum 5 years of people management experience.
• Demonstrated experience driving independent ownership of complex, cross-team software delivery.
• Strong track record in regulated or high-risk environments such as wagering, finance, fintech or payments.
• Deep experience in agile delivery environments.
• Proven ability to handle multi-system integrations, legacy systems and vendor coordination.
• Proven experience coordinating with third-party vendors and BAU/operations teams, including managing escalations, vendor remediation and contract or SLA-driven outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience in effort estimation and supporting prioritisation at programme level, for example producing trade-off analyses, relative sizing and capacity planning.
• Strong understanding of transactional, rules-driven product environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business domains.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, able to challenge and resolve ambiguity quickly.
• Solid understanding of APIs, system behaviour, data flows and integration patterns.
• Experience ensuring compliance, operational readiness and customer experience integrity.

Preferred Skills

• Coaching experience in agile delivery environments.
• Understanding of wagering environments.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Dynamic working environment.
• Development opportunities.