Product Owner

Company Description

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

**Job Description**:
With computer vision becoming one of the core technologies powering sports data collection and products across sports media, sports betting and coaching solutions, we are looking to expand our automated content product team responsible for building Sportradar's computer vision solutions for automated data collection for racket sports (currently tennis and table tennis).

As a product owner in our automated content product team, you will work with an experienced team of computer vision developers, data engineers and data scientists to develop computer vision solution capable of automatically collecting event and tracking data from live tennis and table tennis matches. You will have to communicate with stakeholders from other teams who are responsible for delivering inputs to your product or are the consumers of your product’s output. You will also collaborate with other product owners and domain product manager to align product development strategy and wider team goals.

**THE CHALLENGE**:

- Working closely with senior management to ensure that products fit the company's strategic goals.
- Working collaboratively to produce and manage the company’s development roadmap and ensuring that there is always a suitably prioritized backlog of user stories ready for implementation.
- Being the ambassador for the product and the primary contact for queries relating to the product.
- Suggesting quality ideas to improve the products and producing user specifications with sufficient details about the product features that can be clearly understood by the development teams.
- Breaking down the specification into epics/features/user stories with the Agile development team.
- Understanding the business value behind feature requests and being able to prioritize them in the development backlog.
- Helping to solve product-related problems and highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Ensuring that projects stay on track to achieve delivery commitments, including problem-solving and trade-off analysis when necessary.
- Working with the development team and monitoring the progress of projects during the development cycle to ensure that they have the correct functionality according to the scope.
- Maintain regular communication with internal and external partners and customers.
- Taking part in demonstrations of software releases and collecting feedback on improvements for future development.
- Continually researching the market, our competitors, customer usage behavior and technology trends to ensure that we maintain market-leading products.

**YOUR PROFILE**:

- Interest in machine learning and computer vision technology.
- IT-related university degree (BA / MA), or similar.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Great presentation and leadership skills.
- Fundamental understanding of the research and software development processes.
- Familiarity with the principles of lean product management.
- Independent creative and strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving skills.
- High attention to detail in product design while not losing the big picture.
- Great organizational and time management skills and the ability to work across different teams.
- Knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Confluence and JIRA.
- Experience in the sports data collection or computer vision business is considered a plus.

**OUR OFFER**
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Work in an international team collaborating with colleagues from all over the world.
- Opportunity to work and develop in a dynamic Tech environment within an inspiring and fast-growing company.
- A challenging but rewarding and fun environment.

Additional Information
- Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences_