Product Manager - Entain Studios

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Company Description

We're Entain. Powered by our very own technology and building products that push boundaries, Entain is home to a global family of more than 25 well-known brands and over 24,000 people, but we all play for the same team. When we win, we win together.

Our vision is to be the world leader in betting, gaming and interactive entertainment by bringing moments of excitement into people's lives. We will achieve this through our focus on sustainability and growth, driving change in the fast-paced world of entertainment.

Job Description

As a Product manager you will be responsible for leading an autonomous agile squad through executing product strategies and plans, ensuring they align with the wider domain objectives and key results and delivering exceptional value to our customers. They have a deep understanding of our users' needs, identifies opportunities and drives the creation of products that solve for our customers and achieve our wider business ambitions.

Are you ready to launch a winning career?

What you will do

• Act as the primary point of contact for the Entain Studios products, collaborating closely with cross-functional leaders including marketing, compliance, engineering and finance.
• Leader of cross functional autonomous squad, with a focus on collaboration, using data to drive decisions with an emphasis on continuous improvement.
• Co-ordinate dependencies between tasks, other product teams as necessary to ensure successfully delivery.
• Defines, prioritizes, and manages the product backlog ensuring that features are well-defined, estimated, and aligned with our users' needs and business priorities.
• Continually evaluates and priorities features based on customer feedback, market research, and business impact, ensuring that the team focuses on delivering the maximum value.
• Monitors key performance metrics and user analytics to identify opportunities for optimisation and improvement.
• Defines product requirements, features and functionalities using agile methodologies.
• Ensures accurate and formal product documentation such as feature sheets and user guides.
• Partners with technology and design teams to deliver a world class product offering, ensuring quality and timely product delivery.

Qualifications

• Gaming domain knowledge would be extremely benificial for this role. Complementary experience in ecommerce domains working with digital products is also preferred.
• Experience working closely with tech teams, including game designers & developers, UI/UX teams and testers is essential.
• Understanding user needs; The ability to empathetically discern and interpret the requirements, preferences, and pain points of end users, facilitating the creation of user-centric solutions
• Market & competitive analysis; The ability to research, evaluate, and interpret data and information about market trends, consumer behavior, competitor strategies, and industry developments. This skill includes gathering and analyzing market data, identifying key competitors, assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and anticipating market dynamics to inform strategic decision-making.
• User Story writing; Ability to capture requirements of product features from the end user's perspective with accompanying acceptance criteria. Story writing is to be concise, clear and understandable descriptions of functionality valuable to the user.
• Product discovery; Understand and demonstrates the processes used to identify, understand, and validate new product ideas or features before they are committed to the delivery cycle. Required to address real customer needs and problem statements, determine feasibility to build and align with the business objectives.

Additional Information

At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning.

Depending on your role and location, you can expect to receive benefits like

• A regular bonus
• Healthcare support
• A stake in our success through our ShareSave scheme
• Great development opportunities
• Wellbeing support, and so much more.

And outside of this, you'll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes, join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

At Entain, we do what's right. It's one of our core values and that's why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future - for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated.