Job description
Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivaled sports entertainment, gaming, and social profile. We serve millions of users in several countries via technology and operations hubs on over 3 continents.
The recipe for our success is our intelligent and energetic team, who are passionate about our products and serving our users. We attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life that empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.
We have already built a capable and proven team of 300+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds, and we are looking for more talented individuals to drive further growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity, and hard work that currently serve our users further via their grit and innovation.
Purpose of the role
The Director of Product Management is a vital member of the Sporty Group. They own the roadmap across several products, and they lead a world-class product management team through superior data analysis, innovation, and execution.
Who We Are
Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social, and fintech platform that serves millions of daily active users via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.
The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life that empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based on their contributions.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the VP of Product, the role will own several product lines.
Demonstrates an understanding of the issues affecting the company and makes strategic decisions to ensure the company navigates in the right direction.
Own delivery of product initiatives and releases; able to communicate both the business and technical rationale behind the product decisions.
Collaborate across various functions (Product, Engineering, Design, BI, DS) to develop overall product strategy and define the vision, roadmap, and goals for our products.
Provide fact-based data analysis to ensure new product offerings meet customer demands, delivering superior quality at scale and distinguishing Sporty from existing and future competitive offerings.
Partner with engineering to establish rapid product development and deployment processes with a small team that can accelerate, build, design, test and launch releases with constant updates.
Oversee feature prioritisation for development teams and ensure programs run on time within an agile development environment.
Work closely with a cross-functional product team to lead the definition and execution of the Sporty product strategy from insight to go-to-market execution.
Ability to be an industry opinion leader, such as industry visibility, attending conferences, giving talks, publishing blog posts, and hosting meet-ups
Requirements
Must be based in Europe/European Union
7+ years mobile/digital Product Management.
Data-centric mindset, experienced in metrics, experimentation and optimisation at scale.
Bias towards action.
Demonstrable experience in successfully coaching teams.
Experience delivering successful mobile/Digital product(s), at scale, while owning vision, strategy, data, and execution of that product line.
An excellent team builder. Demonstrated ability to define, refine, and implement development processes, resource planning, metrics, and documentation.
Ability to unblock systemic blockers for direct reports and the business.
Benefits
Quarterly bonuses
We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this
Top-of-the-line equipment
Referral bonuses
28 days paid annual leave
Annual company retreat
Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system
Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members
Our Mission
Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone
Our Operating Principles
1. Create Value for Users
2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty
3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation
4. Be Responsible
5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty
6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy
7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability
8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride
Interview Process
Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
Take-home assignment prior to technical interview
Two-stage remote video interview with 3 x Team Members
24-72 hour feedback loops throughout process
Post Interview Process
Feedback call on successful interview
Offer released, followed by contract
ID Check Via Zinc & 2 references from previous employers
Working at Sporty
The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance-based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow, and de-block any issues when they’re in your way.
Generally, employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups, etc. The emphasis is really on results.
As we are a highly structured and established company, we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to.
We literally build, spend, and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our team members.
