Product Owner
Betsson Group is looking for a talented Product Owner to join the team in Malta. This role focuses on leading the development of an in-house proprietary platform that powers operations across multiple customer touchpoints on an international scale.
The successful candidate will be assigned product responsibility for specific parts of the platform and key initiatives on the product roadmap. They will work closely with engineering teams, stakeholders, and the wider product organisation to develop and improve the platform as a strategic asset for the group.
- Act as the voice of the customer throughout the product development process.
- Actively lead or participate in product discovery activities such as identifying user needs, requirements gathering, scoping, and solution design.
- Produce detailed product specifications in the form of user stories with detailed acceptance criteria (functional and non-functional), complemented by visual aids where relevant.
- Clearly inform engineering teams about the work that is prioritised and why, so that they are motivated to build optimal solutions.
- Provide the necessary product support to the engineering teams as may be required to aid their delivery, including active participation in agile ceremonies.
- Actively support roadmap planning and manage deliveries from start to end, including active co-ordination with stakeholders and other teams as and when required.
- Ensure that the product development backlog is properly organised, prioritised, and kept up to date.
- Contribute to the product vision, and champion this vision with stakeholders and the engineering teams.
- Communicate product status, progress, and upcoming milestones to stakeholders.
- Hold effective presentations (including demos and trainings) with stakeholders for new product concepts and releases as and when required.
- Ensure that effective KPIs and data collection mechanisms are in place to understand product performance.
- Monitor platform performance and KPIs to identify opportunities for optimisation.
- Ensure that relevant product documentation and wikis are well maintained.
- Perform user acceptance testing of new product releases (or ensure co-ordination of).
- 2+ years of working experience as a product owner or product manager (required)
- Highly skilled and experienced in collecting requirements and producing product specifications (required)
- Proven ability to prioritise and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously (required)
- Familiarity with cloud-based platforms, APIs, and data integration (required)
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment (required)
- Experience with analytics tools and metrics-driven decision making (required)
- Relevant experience in the gaming industry and knowledgeable on the requirements of one or more jurisdictions (nice-to-have)
- A technical background in software engineering (nice-to-have)
- Familiarity with functional and non-functional KPIs (nice-to-have)
- Experience working with platforms that serve multiple customer touchpoints (nice-to-have)
- Experience working with geographically distributed development teams (nice-to-have)
- Strong organisational, planning and project management skills (nice-to-have)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (nice-to-have)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (nice-to-have)
- Good presentation skills (nice-to-have)
- Professional working proficiency in English (nice-to-have)
Betsson is a diversified, multinational gaming group whose history dates back to 1963 and which is now listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. The group employs around 3,000 people of more than 75 nationalities across over 20 locations; Betsson AB is registered in Stockholm, while its operational headquarters in Ta' Xbiex, Malta, run the day-to-day business. Through brands such as Betsson, Betsafe and NordicBet, it offers casino, sportsbook and other gaming products in regulated markets across Europe, the Americas and Central Asia. Its proprietary technology supports a scalable model serving both B2C customers and B2B partners, with responsible growth and customer protection central to its strategy.