Product Manager / Product Owner Sportsbook

About the role

We're hiring a product leader to own and scale our Sportsbook experience end-to-end. You'll 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: you're 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.