We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Sportradar is the leading global provider of sports betting and sports entertainment products and services. Since 2001, we have occupied a unique position at the intersection of the sports, media, and betting industries; providing sports federations, news media, consumer platforms and sports betting operators with a range of solutions to help grow their business. 

Sportradar‘s newly founded Sports Virtualisation unit develops innovative and disruptive technology to enable the transition from traditional sports media consumption to new ways to engage with sports. The latest computer vision technology is key to allowing real-time rendering of statistics and virtual ads on top of broadcasts. It also enables the use of skeletal tracking data to render virtual recreations of sports events and transform the way they are experienced. Together with the top leagues and federations around the globe, we are working on our vision for a range of products to increase fan engagement for the world of tomorrow. 

We are looking for you to fill the role of Product Owner with a true passion for sports, especially for basketball🏀and tennis🎾, and the drive and knowledge to create engaging products using the latest real-time graphics technology. You manage projects across development teams and own the scope of the developed product or feature. You act as a bridge between stakeholders inside and outside of the project and the development team. By leading a development team with a product vision and a business and engineering-aligned roadmap that will be realised in agile ways of working.

This position is based in Bremen, Germany. 

THE CHALLENGE:

• Working closely with senior management to ensure that (AR and VR) products fit the company's strategic goals.
• Working collaboratively to produce and manage the company’s development roadmap and ensuring that there is always a suitably prioritized backlog of user stories ready for implementation.
• Being the ambassador for the Sports Virtualisation product and the primary contact for queries relating to the product.
• Suggesting quality ideas to improve the products and producing user specifications with sufficient details about the product features that can be clearly understood by the development teams.
• Breaking down the specification into epics/features/user stories with the Agile development team
• Understand the business value behind feature requests and be able to prioritize them in the development backlog
• Helping to solve product-related problems and highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Ensuring that projects stay on track to achieve delivery commitments, including problem-solving and trade-off analysis when necessary.
• Working with the development team and monitoring the progress of projects during the development cycle to ensure that they have the correct functionality according to the scope.
• Taking part in demonstrations of software releases and collecting feedback on improvements for future development.
• Continually researching the market, our competitors, customer usage behaviour and technology trends to ensure that we maintain market-leading products.

• Previous proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in the betting or sports/gaming domain
• A sports enthusiast with an understanding of complex sports statistics
• You are familiar with the principles of lean product management.
• Fundamental understanding of the game development processes.
• You are interested in game development and video streaming technology.
• Experience in the sports betting business is considered a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Confluence and JIRA
• A collaborative attitude with all stakeholders during the visioning and scoping of projects drives your project.
• A creative and strategic thinker with good problem-solving skills and interest to create innovative content solutions. 
• You pay attention to detail in product design while not losing the overview.
• With your organizational and time management skills and the ability to work across different teams, deliver a common goal.
• Ability to communicate your creative vision, process, decisions, and rationale to team members and cross-functional stakeholders in a way that inspires and motivates.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, German is a plus

• Be part of a highly motivated, innovative, and dynamic organization with people from more than 30 nationalities in our offices.
• A paid vacation of at least 26 days plus the 24th & 31st of Dec., as additional days off.
• An annual performance-related bonus 
• Opportunity for hybrid working
• Company pension plan, bike leasing and other health care benefits.
• Summer events and Christmas party
• Coffee, tea, fresh fruits and water in the office
• Internal management programs according to management level: Grow / Lead Like a Pro / Sportradar e-Academy including team workshops with external trainers

SPORTRADAR:

We are a truly international business employing over 3,500 people in more than 30 locations around the world. Our rapid growth has been driven by technological innovation alongside an understanding of our client’s business needs. Our commitment to excellent service, quality and reliability makes us the trusted partner of over 1,000 companies in over 100 countries.

We occupy a unique position at the intersection of the sports, media and betting industries. This creates an exciting and fast-moving working environment that rewards creative thinking and hard work. We are passionate about what we do and care passionately about our people.

If you think you're up to the challenge, come and help us to grow, innovate and develop!

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Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences