Product Manager
Sportradar is looking for an experienced Product Manager with strong gaming and casino games expertise to join the Playradar iGaming division based in the Vienna or Ljubljana office. The role involves working closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and external stakeholders to turn customer and market insights into high-quality product outcomes.
Playradar operates like a small start-up within Sportradar, providing an entrepreneurial environment where pace, ownership, and impact are central. The Product Manager will contribute to shaping the product portfolio, improving roadmap transparency, supporting operational excellence, and driving innovation initiatives that support the future growth of the division.
- Contribute to the Playradar product roadmap across selected teams and initiatives, including planning, prioritisation, commercial impact assessment, and delivery alignment.
- Support the definition and prioritisation of casino games from market opportunity and concept development through to product direction, launch readiness, and performance review.
- Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Go-to-Market teams for assigned product initiatives.
- Challenge priorities, dependencies, and delivery plans constructively to support focus and execution quality.
- Identify risks and bottlenecks early and help coordinate mitigation actions.
- Support the use of KPIs, reporting, and roadmap governance to improve transparency and product performance.
- Facilitate product discussions and help resolve cross-functional challenges within assigned initiatives.
- Contribute to discovery and innovation initiatives that support the growth and evolution of the Playradar portfolio.
- Explore customer needs, market opportunities, technology trends, competitive dynamics, and partnership opportunities across the gaming ecosystem.
- Develop product concepts, user stories, business cases, and clear recommendations to support decision-making.
- Support innovation through AI tools, rapid prototyping, and structured experimentation where relevant.
- Coordinate execution across internal teams, external partners, and sports rights holders for assigned initiatives.
- Translate customer, player, and business needs into clear product requirements and actionable delivery plans.
- Work closely with Design and Engineering to define features, user experience, acceptance criteria, and release scope.
- Monitor product performance using player behaviour, product analytics, customer feedback, and commercial insights.
- Support post-launch optimisation by identifying opportunities to improve engagement, retention, monetisation, and product quality.
- Prepare product updates, performance summaries, and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Support planning, prioritisation, and coordination across assigned product initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to improve product processes, documentation, communication, and ways of working.
- Maintain clear reporting and operational metrics to track roadmap execution, delivery progress, and product performance.
- 3+ years of experience in Product Management, ideally with experience in the Gaming, Casino Games, or digital entertainment industry (required).
- Good understanding of gaming products, player behaviour, monetisation models, regulatory considerations, and market dynamics within the industry (required).
- Ability to translate customer insight, market understanding, and business needs into clear product requirements and roadmap recommendations (required).
- Experience working with cross-functional teams across product, technology, commercial, and operational areas (required).
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence constructively and build alignment (required).
- Strong analytical thinking skills with the ability to translate information into practical recommendations (required).
- Experience supporting business cases, market assessments, product discovery, and prioritisation decisions (required).
- Ability to work independently in fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environments while seeking guidance when needed (required).
- Understanding of product development methodologies and modern product operating models (required).
- Strong market knowledge within the gaming industry (nice-to-have).
- Experience working with sports rights holders or sports-related products (nice-to-have).
- Familiarity with AI tools, rapid prototyping techniques, and innovation frameworks (nice-to-have).
- Experience contributing to product reporting, stakeholder updates, or leadership presentations (nice-to-have).
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.