Senior Technical Product Manager, Core Data Ingestion Platform

Penn National Gaming; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Relaxed work environment

Education reimbursements

Parental leave top up

Career progression mentoring

Job summary

theScore, a subsidiary of PENN Entertainment, is hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager for the Core Data Ingestion Platform. You will work with business and engineering teams to identify pain points, guide initiatives, and shape our data platform roadmap.

You will lead the day-to-day product development, refine technical requirements, and accelerate delivery with kanban enhancements and backlog prioritization. Strong communication with executives is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management in a technical environment.
• Background in computer science, business, IT, or related field.
• Experience with backend systems (microservices, databases, messaging).
• Strong stakeholder and project management skills.
• Excellent communication of technical concepts to executives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to identify pain points.
• Conduct technical market research to guide initiatives.
• Lead discovery sessions to validate ideas and align teams.
• Refine technical requirements into executable work items.
• Improve kanban processes and prioritize backlogs with business priorities.
• Coordinate releases with the Release Management team.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Communication

Teamwork

Technical curiosity

Education

Background in CS/Business/IT

Tools

Kubernetes

Databases

Kafka

DataDog

Job description

Full job description theScore, a wholly‑owned subsidiary of PENN Entertainment, empowers millions of sports fans through its digital media and sports betting products. Its media app 'theScore' is one of the most popular in North America, delivering fans highly personalized live scores, news, stats, and betting information from their favorite teams, leagues, and players. TheScore's sports betting app 'theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino' delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting and iCasino experience. TheScore Bet is currently live in the Company's home province of Ontario. TheScore also creates and distributes innovative digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.

About the Role & Team

Our mission on the Core Data Ingestion Platform team is to centralize third‑party data ingestion and establish a single source of truth for sports data. As a Senior Technical Product Manager on the team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with talented and friendly developers to learn more about the cutting‑edge technology they use and help shape our strategy and vision. You'll get to combine your business acumen and technical expertise to discover and deliver innovative solutions to common problems across the organization.

About the Work

• Work closely with business and engineering stakeholders to discover their pain points
• Conduct technical market research to help guide internal decisions on initiatives
• Conduct internal discovery and ideation sessions to validate new ideas
• Work together with engineering and product stakeholders to gain insights and alignment
• Gain a working knowledge of cutting‑edge technologies and concepts (ie. Kafka)
• Leverage your insights to help shape the Core Platform team's strategy and roadmap
• Lead the day to day product development process for the Core Platform team
• Gather and refine technical requirements into executable and testable units of work
• Continuously improve kanban methodologies used by the team to accelerate processes
• Prioritize technical backlogs based on engineering and business objectives
• Manage the release process jointly with the Release Management team
• Other duties as required

About You

• 5-8+ years of product management experience in a technical environment
• Background in computer science, business, IT, or related field
• Have working knowledge of various components in a backend system (ie. microservices, databases, messaging system)
• Have working knowledge of platform thinking and methodologies (ie. designing for reuse, abstracting complexity, etc.)
• Comfortable going deep into the inner workings of technology to be able to work with developers to collect and prioritize technical requirements
• Strong stakeholder and project management skills
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to senior/executive stakeholders
• Must be a team player and self‑starter
• Nice to have: experience with Kubernetes, Databases, Kafka or DataDog
• Nice to have: experience with the data engineering lifecycle, specifically data governance topics such as discoverability, integrity, etc.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Fun, relaxed work environment.
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Parental leave top up.
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others.

Candidates residing in Ontario requiring special accommodation can email [e-mail]

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