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.
Role Description
theScore is looking for a Technical Product manager to join the team and help drive the data migration from legacy applications to a fully integrated gaming tech stack (Player Account Management, Trading Platform, and front end application).
Typical Work Day at theScore:
- Facilitate/Contribute to data team ceremonies to
- Drive work towards the roadmap
- Unblock the team and proactively manage issues that arise
- Enable the team to plan & prioritize with confidence
- Facilitate meetings with business/product stakeholders to understand end state objectives for projects with in scope data work
- Collaborate with team members (PMO, Technical Project Managers, Tech Leads, Individual Contributors, etc.) across the engineering organization to identify in-scope teams, dependencies, and technical requirements for project work
- Facilitate ticket parties to break down projects into manageable units of work in the team backlog
- Collaborate with Data Org leadership to manage the backlog and plan future work iterations for the development team
- Manage day-to-day operations of the team, using tools like JIRA and Confluence.
- Coordinate release cycle of internal tools and manage cross team dependencies.
- Other duties as required.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in product management in a technical environment.
- Strong project management skills and ability to present work to executive staff.
- Background in Computer Science, Business, IT, or related field.
- Must be a self-starter, a team player, and driven.
- Outstanding written/oral, organizational, analytical skills, and attention to detail.
- Ability to identify and interact with the producing and consuming stakeholders that interact with the Penn Interactive data platform
- Have an understanding of the various components of a data pipeline related to data ingestion, transformation, and presentation
- Have an understanding of the various components in a backend system, including microservices, databases, and messaging systems.
- Experience creating product specifications
- Experience communicating across diverse cultures, work styles, and personalities.
Nice to Haves
- Previous start-up, consumer mobile and/or consulting experience is a strong asset
- Familiarity with Cloud Services - Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon Redshift, Kafka
- Knowledge/Familiarity with SQL
- Experience with monitoring tools like DataDog, Splunk, and Prometheus.
- Ability to read source code
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation package
- Fun, relaxed work environment
- Education and conference reimbursements.
- Parental leave top up
- Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others
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.
