theScore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PENN Entertainment , empowers millions of sports fans through its digital media and sports betting products. Its media app ‘theScore’ is one of the most popular in North America, delivering fans highly personalized live scores, news, stats, and betting information from their favorite teams, leagues, and players. theScore’s sports betting app ‘theScore Bet Sportsbook & Casino’ delivers an immersive and holistic mobile sports betting and iCasino experience. theScore Bet is currently live in the Company's home province of Ontario. theScore also creates and distributes innovative digital content through its web, social and esports platforms.
Work-term: September 3, 2024 - December 20, 2024
About the Role & Team
- As a Technical Product Manager Co-op you will help contribute to the technical landscape of our growing architecture
- You will have an opportunity to help grow technical initiatives focused on improving end user experience, as well as initiatives that will harden the reliability and scalability of our application.
- You will get to work alongside top developers to bring new cutting edge technologies to the team
About the Work
As a member of our Technical Product Management team you will:
- Work with Senior TPMs and developers to discover initiatives that will improve user productivity, and the performance of our application
- Contribute to the vision, strategy, prioritization and execution of technical initiatives on the team.
- Manage day-to-day product development operations via Kanban, Jira and Confluence.
- Author and contribute to technical product specifications for the roadmap initiatives, as well as help break down specifications into actionable stories for the team to refine, estimate, and deliver.
- Create documentation on roadmap initiatives, end-user guides, as well as how the team operates.
- Other duties as required.
About You
- Working towards a technical educational background in Computer Science, Business, IT, or related field.
- Desire to learn product owner skills to be able to work with technical stakeholders to gather requirements, manage backlogs, and prioritize initiatives.
- Outstanding written/oral, organizational, analytical skills, and attention to detail.
- Must be a self-starter, a team player, and driven.
- Nice to haves:
- Experience working with engineering teams on technical initiatives is a big plus
- Previous co-op, start-up, consumer mobile and/or consulting experience is a strong asset.
- Experience with monitoring tools like DataDog, Splunk and Prometheus.
- Comfortable testing and troubleshooting backend application services
What We Offer
- Fun, relaxed work environment
- A voice. We're dedicated to open communication which empowers our employees to drive the company's culture
- A company that encourages a culture of inclusion and diversity
- Opportunity to work on large scale consumer-facing applications with millions of users
- Career growth. Mentorship from some of the brightest people in the industry
Candidates residing in Ontario requiring special accommodation can email accessibilityoffice@thescore.com
theScore is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.
