Sports Owners

Hard Rock Digital; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Flexible vacation

Hybrid/remote

Global brand

Job summary

Hard Rock Digital is building a world-class sportsbook trading desk. The Sports Owner will own a specific sport, drive pricing strategy, and oversee risk across all markets while remaining hands-on in day-to-day trading.

You’ll mentor junior traders, collaborate with product, quant, and operations, and push for pricing excellence, market depth, and competitive parity. Ideal candidates bring extensive sportsbook trading experience, sharp risk judgment, and deep knowledge of their owned sport,

Qualifications

• Extensive sportsbook trading experience.
• Strong risk management principles.
• Deep owner-level knowledge of the owned sport.
• Proficient in Excel; BI tools like SQL/Power BI/Tableau a plus.

Responsibilities

• Monitor real-time exposure across owned sports and markets.
• Manage third-party data feeds and trading tools.
• Set limits and implement risk controls to protect margins.
• Develop pricing strategy and feature parity against competitors.
• Mentor junior traders and collaborate with product/quant teams.

Skills

Trading risk

Real-time trading

Data analysis

Excel

Communication skills

Team mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social casino company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space - ready to join us?

What's the position?

The Sports Owner will operate at Senior Trader level within the Sportsbook Trading Team, with core responsibility for price management, risk oversight, and the accuracy and competitiveness of our sportsbook offering across all sports. In addition to these core trading duties, the Sports Owner will take named ownership of a specific sport, acting as the internal authority on that product — driving its pricing strategy, feature set, and competitive positioning, while remaining embedded in day-to-day team trading and risk responsibilities.

As part of our Trading Performance team, we are looking for sport owners who bring specialist expertise to, and take direct responsibility for: NHL, Combat Sports, Golf, Table Tennis, eSports and Tennis. Each owner will act as the recognised specialist for their sport — the internal point of expertise on its markets, pricing, and content offering — while contributing to the collective performance of the wider trading desk.

You will manage multiple third-party data feeds and trading tools to maintain market integrity, optimise margins, and mitigate risk, with particular focus on your owned sport as well as broader coverage responsibilities across the desk. You will respond to market movements in real time, ensure pricing remains both competitive and compliant, and take the lead on refining and improving your sport's pricing, market depth, and feature parity relative to competitors.

You will develop a deep understanding of our trading systems and third-party integrations. For your owned sport specifically, you will help define requirements, benchmark against competitors, and feed testing insights back into the product and trading teams. You will demonstrate strong trading judgement, contribute to operational excellence across the team's shared workload, and support the training and development of junior traders.

What are we looking for?

You will be a decisive and analytical thinker, comfortable making real-time trading decisions in a fast-paced environment, with extensive sportsbook trading experience and a strong grasp of risk management principles. You will also bring deep, demonstrable expertise as a sports owner, its rules, nuances, player analytics, and betting behaviours, sufficient to act as the go-to voice on that product internally.

You will have excellent attention to detail, strong numerical and technical skills, and the ability to interpret data to inform both day-to-day trading decisions and longer-term strategy for your owned sport. You will be proactive and organised, comfortable working non-standard hours to ensure coverage of key sporting events, including those outside your owned sport.

Key attributes and experience include:

Trading & Risk Oversight

Monitor real-time exposure across covered sports, proactively identify betting patterns and sharp action, set appropriate limits, and implement risk management protocols to protect margin and profitability. Proven ability to react quickly and logically during live events or high-volume periods.

Third-Party Feed & Product Optimisation

Proven ability to manage, assess, and optimise third-party odds and data feeds — both for the owned sport and across general trading responsibilities. Experience creating bespoke prices where needed and resolving feed issues to maintain data accuracy.

Competitive Benchmarking & Product Input

Conduct regular competitor benchmarking for the owned sport across major operators, assessing pricing competitiveness, market uptime, and feature parity. Feed findings into product, quant, and trading management to shape roadmap priorities and pricing improvements.

Analytical Ability

Evaluate the effectiveness of trading strategies and product performance, analysing large datasets to identify value leaks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities — both team-wide and specific to the owned sport. Produce data-driven reports for senior management highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities. Proficiency in Excel and trading platforms; experience with BI tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Tableau is an advantage.

Mentorship & Team Contribution

Provide guidance and coaching to junior and mid-level traders, sharing best practice in bookmaking, modelling, and risk principles, while fulfilling standard Senior Trader responsibilities across the wider desk, not solely the owned sport.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with product, quant, technology, and operations teams to develop new markets, refine customer experience, and support innovation for the owned sport specifically, as well as contributing insights that benefit the broader sportsbook.

Communication & Collaboration

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present insights clearly and collaborate effectively across multiple teams and senior stakeholders.

What’s in it for you?

We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include:

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Flexible vacation allowance
• A hybrid / remote working environment
• Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand

Roster of Uniques

We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us, and trust and empower our staff to own and drive their experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunity employer).