Product Owner Manager

Product Owner Manager

Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. 

We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide. 

We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges. 

Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.

The role
As part of this team, you will lead and work with individual Product Owners to expand, uplift and develop the product perspective across the teams, in addition to nurturing existing core systems knowledge and shared delivery activity responsibilities.

In collaboration with Head of Product Owners and Director of Delivery & Continuous Improvement, you will continue the transformation of ways of working and the role of PO’s in that transformation alongside Delivery and Engineering. By working closely with the Director of Product you will ensure effective collaboration between Product Owners and Product Managers across value streams, and an aligned uplift of Product activities in the squads. Your role will work closely with other senior contributors across Product, Delivery, and Engineering, consulting with Architecture, QA and Service Operations, to ensure our people are being developed in alignment with the Tribe vision and strategy. 

What You’ll Be Doing

• You will ensure the squads have sufficient end-to-end product and analysis expertise to enable autonomy and ownership within the squads.

• Support and help the product owners to work with stakeholders to identify challenging problems and opportunities, analyse and understand current processes and systems.

• Continue to develop strong knowledge of our platform capabilities, and ensure they are enabled to execute their role effectively. 

• Facilitate the Product Community forums, structures, and mechanisms for product professionalisation, systems understanding, and analysis competency across the squads, with a focus on sharing experiences, knowledge and skills.

• Ensure the quality and effectiveness of Product Owner activities across the delivery lifecycle (from ‘ideation & strategic alignment’ through to ‘transition & evolution’)

• Recruitment, onboarding, engagement, and retention of Product Owner roles.

• Work with the Head of Product to establish, maintain and improve the tribe’s Product Community.

• Work with the Head of Planning & Delivery and Senior Engineering Managers to ensure product owner alignment and development to broader Tribe delivery ways of working

• Supporting Product Owners and their squads in finding solutions to complex challenges by employing best practice product and analysis approaches whilst aligned to agile delivery methodology

• At times may be asked to support in a Product Owner capacity on those initiatives or objectives that require product consultation, and to maintain direct experience of the role. 

• Professional development of the Product Owners (coaching & mentoring, development plans, performance).

• Participate in leadership meetings and working groups at value stream and tribe level to provide subject matter expertise in Product, Platform capability and analysis approaches

What You’ll Bring

• Knowledge of sports betting products and trading technology environments that enable these products.

• Experience working in Product Engineering domains in analysis, delivery, product lifecycle and support of products and capabilities.

• Ability to ideate and create solutions that address challenges and opportunities for our customers.

• Ability to work through a large set of unknowns and translate them into Product, Process or Tech requirements.

• Ability to formulate and communicate strategy.

• Experience of leading teams, coaching and developing talent.

This is what you should have. What do we have, you ask? Well...you can check our amazing perks & benefits right here !  

So ... are you in? 
 

Equal opportunities 

At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply. 
We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. 
Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. 

If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to  [email protected] . 
 

We will only respond to inquiries related to disabilities.