Senior Product Manager - AI & Sports Data
Sportradar is looking for a Senior Product Manager – AI & Sports Data to join the Live Data division. This role connects real-world sports movements and on-field performance with an AI-driven product suite to create tangible value for the betting industry.
The primary focus is ensuring that Sportradar's strategic investments in AI-powered sports data capabilities translate into measurable commercial outcomes. The role involves owning the product strategy for key AI betting products, driving them from technical innovation to market-ready offerings that meet client expectations.
As a bridge between AI development and business impact, the Senior Product Manager defines roadmaps in collaboration with AI engineers and data scientists. The position requires championing quality and delivery across the full product lifecycle while working closely with global stakeholders, including major US sports leagues and federations.
- Define and own the product vision and roadmap for AI-powered betting products.
- Identify commercial opportunities where AI capabilities can create differentiated value for Sportradar’s betting clients.
- Work closely with the AI team on a daily basis, attending standups, planning sessions, and design reviews to maintain deep technical understanding and ensure product-market alignment.
- Develop, analyse, and evolve product KPIs in collaboration with internal stakeholders across AI, Live Data, and commercial teams.
- Translate complex AI outputs into clear product narratives and value propositions for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Assess data quality, model performance, and product reliability to drive continuous improvement.
- Predict and measure the business impact of AI product deliveries, building cases for investment and prioritisation.
- Coordinate cross-functionally between AI engineering, Live Data operations, QA, and go-to-market teams to ensure smooth product launches.
- Oversee the overall landscape of AI-driven opportunities for Live Data, proactively proposing new product concepts and enhancements across rule-based analytics, simulation-driven predictions, and foundation model-powered products.
- Help offload operational and product-related tasks from the AI team to allow them to focus on core technical delivery.
- Drive quality standards and contribute to continuous improvement of product processes and deliverables.
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in data-intensive or AI/ML-driven product environments (required).
- Strong understanding of the sports betting industry, including trading, odds compilation, in-play markets, and related data products (required).
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical AI/ML concepts into commercial product opportunities (required).
- Experience working closely with engineering and data science teams in agile environments (required).
- Interest in AI product development approaches, including rule-based systems, predictive modelling, simulations, and foundation models (required).
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to define KPIs, interpret model outputs, and make data-driven decisions (required).
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable presenting to both technical teams and senior leadership (required).
- Comfortable working in a global environment and collaborating with stakeholders across European and US time zones (required).
- Strategic thinker with a hands-on, execution-oriented mindset (required).
- Experience with predictive analytics, machine learning products, or sports data platforms (preferred).
- Familiarity with data visualisation tools (Tableau, Power BI) and basic SQL knowledge (nice-to-have).
- Collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world.
- Social events and teambuilding.
- Flexibility to manage workday and tasks with autonomy.
- Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to Calm and Reulay well-being apps.
- Online training videos.
- Flexible working hours.
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.