Senior Product Owner
Flutter International is looking for an experienced and autonomous Senior Product Owner to own the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for the Sportsbook back-end platform. This role serves as the primary product authority for the domain, defining the vision, setting priorities, and driving outcomes across engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.
The Senior Product Owner leads independently, makes high-impact decisions, and is accountable for measurable results. The role involves working closely with development teams, business stakeholders, data analysts, and external partners to deliver scalable, compliant, and high-quality sportsbook solutions.
- Own the product roadmap for the Sportsbook back-end domain end-to-end, from discovery through delivery and post-launch optimisation, with full accountability for outcomes and KPIs.
- Define and drive product vision for the domain, aligning engineering teams, business stakeholders, and leadership around a clear and compelling direction.
- Lead product discovery independently, including hypothesis generation, requirements gathering, scoping, and solution design in collaboration with engineering, data, and design teams.
- Own and maintain a healthy, prioritised backlog, making autonomous prioritisation decisions based on business value, technical feasibility, regulatory requirements, and strategic goals.
- Author high-quality product specifications, including detailed user stories with clear acceptance criteria, edge case handling, and visual aids such as wireframes, flowcharts, and sequence diagrams.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, operations, compliance, and external partners, acting as the single point of accountability for the product area.
- Define and track success metrics for all initiatives, owning the measurement framework and iterating based on data and live product performance.
- Oversee UAT and release readiness, setting quality standards and ensuring new features meet functional, regulatory, and performance expectations before launch.
- Represent the product in stakeholder forums, including leadership reviews, sprint demos, and external partner discussions, communicating progress, risks, and decisions with confidence.
- Maintain product documentation and internal wikis to a high standard, ensuring they reflect the current state of the platform and are accessible to all relevant teams.
- Continuously assess the live product, proactively identifying gaps, degradations, and improvement opportunities, and driving resolution.
- Mentor and support junior Product Owners, sharing domain knowledge, reviewing their output, and raising the overall quality of product practice within the team.
- 5+ years of Product Owner or Product Manager experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity owning a product domain independently (required).
- Proven track record of owning a product roadmap and delivering measurable business outcomes (required).
- Deep expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and cross-team dependency management (required).
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing senior leadership and aligning cross-functional teams (required).
- Data-driven decision-making experience, including defining KPIs and analysing product metrics (required).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (required).
- Strong understanding of back-end systems architecture, distributed microservices, databases, and API-driven ecosystems (nice-to-have).
- Familiarity with back-end systems in sports betting, including bet placement, settlement, real-time data processing, risk management, and regulatory compliance (nice-to-have).
- Personal passion for sports or sports betting (nice-to-have).
- Generous annual leave (30 days standard)
- Hybrid work
- Individual health insurance
- Paid sick leave
- Paid maternity & paternity leave
- Family reward
- Performance & referral bonuses
- Loyalty award
- Pension benefits
Flutter International is the international division of Flutter Entertainment, the world's leading online sports betting and gaming company. It operates a portfolio of brands including PokerStars, Betfair International, Adjarabet, Sisal, Snai, Betnacional, Junglee Games and MaxBet across markets outside the UK, Ireland, US and Australia. The division combines world-class brands with global scale and a challenger mindset, drawing on shared capabilities the group calls the "Flutter Edge". Flutter Entertainment is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange.