Product Owner

About Us

At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it. FDJ UNITED is one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day.

We’re looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field. Join us in shaping the future of gaming.

Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?

The role

We are a global cross-functional team driving this initiative within Frontend and Backend development, Data Science, Quant, and Product Design in close collaboration with the Business stakeholders. We are looking for an experienced Product Owner/Product Manager that is as excited as we are to transform gambling. You will join the team developing the in-house Sportsbook Platform. We are multiple teams across various time zones contributing to maximum agile flow of delivery. The successful candidate has great knowledge and experience from working with leading data solutions and software development and has a proven track record in delivering high quality solutions to customers and the business. As a Product Owner within this team, you are highly empowered, which means you will have control over your own work and are expected and encouraged to take on new tasks without someone managing you in detail. You embrace pressure and feel pride in always delivering the best with a friendly attitude.

What you will do

• Acting as a Tech Delivery expert and Leader
• Deploy agile development and delivery methods, ensuring that principles of human centered design thinking are embraced through the delivery process with the aim of delivering world class experiences.
• Liaise with Kindred business delivery teams and key business stakeholders to secure efficient management of your backlogs and handling of new business initiatives.
• Ensure maximum business value of scheduled work, define business and technical requirements, translate them into workable Epics and User Stories and ensure timely deliveries of the backlog items.
• Support the teams by participating in scrum ceremonies like daily, backlog grooming and planning.
• Provide full visibility and transparency on capacity planning for the backlogs and clearly communicate capacity and estimations to key stake holders.
• Engage close communication with relevant stakeholders such as business owners, UX, PO's and tech teams on business initiatives and release schedules, secure visibility of feature progress.
• Act like a lead coordinator when needed, feel comfortable managing deliveries from start to end and drive development and project progress across multiple teams and backlogs.
• Acting as a Customer Champion and Change Ambassador
• Work alongside the Product Engineering Lead on executing Kindred's key experiences, across customer journeys, across all channels and contribute to create experiences that set industry standards for delighting customers, and contribute to maximum agile flow of delivery, efficiency, and productivity.
• Use all available customer understanding and analytics tools for product decisions purposes.
• Exhibit a “customer first” behavior, step into our customer shoes and constantly find improvements.
• Engage CX/UX teams with dilemmas and incorporate these teams in the weekly schedule and establish ways of working with these teams.

Your Experience

Solid experience working as either Product Owner or Product Manager role in agile development. Genuine passion for customer interaction and perception of used services. Fantastic communication and presentation skills. Creative and Strategic thinker with a positive attitude. Have a data and evidence driven mind-set in decision making. Excellent English speaking and writing skills. Must thrive in multi-tasking, quick moving, demanding environment.

Personal attributes

You are an outgoing and social person with a mature and positive attitude who puts pride in being part of the whole product lifecycle. You enjoy problem solving and have an interest in innovative ideas and technologies to help you achieve team goals. You naturally seek to understand the big picture and have the ability to transform strategy and vision into action plans and deliverables. You are hands on and result driven. You are a natural leader and a team player; you enjoy working in a team and see the benefits from teamwork. You love to work with development and latest technologies, to demonstrate work and inspire others.

Our Way Of Working

Our world is hybrid.

A career is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. One of the perks of joining us is that we value you as a person first. Our hybrid world allows you to focus on your goals and responsibilities and lets you self-organise to improve your deliveries and get the work done in your own way.

Application Process

We believe talent knows no boundaries. Our hiring process focuses solely on your skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and evaluate each candidate based on merit, regardless of personal characteristics as the age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.