Product Manager Product Owner Sportsbook

Sofia - Bulgaria

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the role

Were hiring a product leader to own and scale our Sportsbook experience end-to-end. Youll sit at the intersection of product trading risk compliance and engineering turning market insight and user data into a clear roadmap and high-quality delivery. This role is ideal for a product person who genuinely understands software (APIs data models integration patterns) and speaks the same language as developers while knowing the betting industry inside out.

(R77 Global is supporting the client on this search.)

What youll do

Own the Sportsbook product area (pre-match & in-play) from discovery to delivery and iteration.
Define and communicate a clear roadmap aligned to commercial goals (handle margin retention market coverage latency).
Translate problems into lean testable solutions: PRDs user stories acceptance criteria and wireframes/flows.
Partner closely with Engineering to shape API contracts data requirements and technical trade-offs (performance scalability and resilience).
Manage the backlog and delivery rituals (refinement planning reviews) ensuring predictable high-quality releases.
Lead discovery: customer interviews competitor teardown funnel analysis A/B tests and usability research.
Drive integrations with odds/data providers and streaming vendors; optimise market creation settlement and results ingestion.
Collaborate with Trading/Risk on pricing tools bet limits suspension rules and alerting/balancing UX with operational control.
Improve core UX: betslip cash-out bet builder/same-game parlay account & RG journeys and promo tooling.
Ensure compliance by design (jurisdictional rules KYC/AML/RG features audit trails) with Product & Legal alignment.
Define and monitor KPIs; produce crisp product reports for leadership and stakeholders.
Champion experimentation and telemetryship; measure learn repeat.

What youll bring

4 years in digital product management/ownership including 2 years on Sportsbook or closely related betting products.
Solid technical fluency: youre comfortable discussing REST/GraphQL APIs event streams payloads data schemas caching and CI/CD.
Proven delivery with cross-functional squads (Engineering Design QA Trading/Risk CRM and Compliance).
Experience with third-party integrations (odds/data feeds risk tools payments identity/KYC).
Strong discovery toolkit (JTBD opportunity sizing experiment design product analytics).
Excellent writing: concise PRDs clear acceptance criteria and stakeholder updates that drive decisions.
Data-driven mindset confident with dashboards and basic SQL or similar to self-serve insights.
Genuine sports knowledge (e.g. football basketball tennis) and how sports calendars impact demand.
Right to work in Bulgaria or willingness to relocate (relocation support available).

Nice to have

Background as a developer QA technical BA or solutions/integration engineer.
Experience with in-play latency optimisation cash-out models bet builders and personalisation.
Familiarity with responsible gaming frameworks and multi-market regulatory constraints.
Experience in microservices event-driven architectures and observability practices.

Tooling & environment

Product & design: Jira/YouTrack Confluence Figma Miro.
Data: GA4/Mixpanel/Amplitude Looker/Power BI basic SQL.
Engineering context: REST/GraphQL APIs message queues microservices CI/CD feature flags and experimentation platforms.

About the role Were hiring a product leader to own and scale our Sportsbook experience end-to-end. Youll sit at the intersection of product trading risk compliance and engineering turning market insight and user data into a clear roadmap and high-quality delivery. This role is ideal for a product pe...