Technical Product Owner, BetQL

We are the team that creates all of BetQL's products used by hundreds of thousands of people around the country. We’re looking for an innovative, passionate, and results-driven Technical Product Owner to join our engineering team. As the Technical Product Owner, you will be responsible for collecting and documenting requirements, as well as setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by BetQL software development teams in order to ensure impeccable features and functionality of the product. You will be working with multiple stakeholders ranging from Product, Engineering, Marketing, Analytics, and other groups.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology in the sports and sports betting space and can deliver best-in-class products from inception to launch in a fast-paced environment. This person is highly motivated and has a proven track record of launching successful products that users love and is an advocate for our customers when meeting with cross-functional stakeholders and senior management.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:

• Take the lead of cross-functional scrum teams as the Technical Product Owner
• Build and manage functional and non-functional requirements, and provide vision and direction to the Agile development teams and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Plan and prioritize features backlog and work with the team on development plans for the product
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Work with Product and Business leaders on building product road-map and identify innovation opportunities
• Leverage data-driven analysis to work with product management on defining product strategy to optimize revenue and improve the experience 
• Support business development teams by providing assistance and product overview for new integrations. Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Lead the planning of product releases and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Be available and active in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release and Sprint goals
• Research and analyze the market, the users, and the competitive landscape
• Be a champion of Agile/Scrum best practices and keep abreast of new trends

Qualifications

More About You:

Required:

• 5+ years of product owner experience in the digital arena with a focus on Data, Media, and modern technology concepts
• Excellent written and oral communications skills required
• In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles
• Advanced technical understanding of the media and streaming ecosystems
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Excellent people skills and being a team player; ability to work successfully with both direct and indirect teams across the organization
• A "user-first" mentality to advocate for the best UX for our readers whilst maximizing revenue
• Ability to manage multiple scrum teams simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Creative thinker with vision and sharp analytical and problem-solving skills

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.

Preferred:

• An understanding of sports and sports betting
• A graduate degree in a relevant field.

Pay Transparency: 

The anticipated starting salary range for New York based individuals expressing interest in this position is $125,000 to $160,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.

Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include:  health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.

Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD) is a scaled, multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best radio broadcasting group, a leader in virtually every segment of audio, and America’s #1 creator of original, premium audio.  Audacy engages over 170 million consumers each month, bringing people together around the news, sports, podcasts, and music that matter to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp), and Twitter (@AudacyCorp).

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