The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you.
FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.
The Position
As a Product Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for leading a highly skilled team of Product Owners, who are tasked with bridging technical and business worlds to delivery key initiatives and improvements across our range of products.
You will continually craft and promote a culture which encourages personal growth, autonomy and an agile mentality across your team, always seeking to continually improve.
Using exceptional business and strategic acumen, knowledge and analytical expertise, you will govern product initiatives across your varied areas, driving value and clarity, and ensuring a high level of detailed analysis is always applied.
Exceptional communication skills will be key, operating in a fast-paced environment with constant interactions with a diverse group of stakeholders across all levels of the business. You will work closely with product management, technical teams and delivery across the entire organization.
Lead and manage a team of Product Owners:
- Lead a team of product owners, providing guidance and driving product owners' ownership of individual features
- Ensure a high-level of quality across all Product Owner artefacts.
- Ensure effective Product Owner team processes and continuously improving ways of working
- Ensures the team has the required knowledge and training, can meet the business needs and understand business strategy and priorities
- Ensure the company values/ cultural behaviors are exhibited by all product owners on your team and be a leader of any company wide initiatives that require full employee engagement
- Encourage growth and development across the team
- Support their team members with any delivery issues
Work with the peers & leadership team to:
- Drive effective recruitment and onboarding, helping to develop repeatable, scalable processes for both
- Build strong working relationships with product management. delivery and technology leadership
- Make decisions where required and raise priority to seek direction when it is appropriate to do so
- Actively seeks to help others understand their area better and creates a culture of sharing and acquiring knowledge that will benefit the wider organization
Lead the initiation of major initiatives:
- Collaborate with product, delivery and tech teams for roadmap management, ensuring effective allocation of PO team members to new initiatives
- Help shape and drive the initiation of major initiatives, ensuring the correct level of engagement across all business functions and locations
- Work closely with Product Management and Technology to ensure initiative continue to align with the overall product and technology strategies
- Through a deep understanding of our product set and business analysis, be able to advise commercial and technology stakeholders on the best course of action deliver the best possible outcome
- Think about the big picture and use that perspective to achieve competitive advantage through greater agility, faster time to market and a better customer experience
What We’re Looking For
- 5 years + experience in a Product or Delivery role
- Leadership or management experience
- A result driven person with an action-oriented approach, pursuing work with energy and drive
- Someone that leads by example and with empathy - drives the standards of performance of a team while understanding different perspectives
- A person who can delegate tasks, empowering their team and fostering growth
- Strong relationship management skills. Ability to relate to both business and technical specialists
- Resilient and confident under pressure and maintains a positive attitude
- A customer focus champion that builds and delivers solutions that meet customer expectations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to understand technical architecture at a high level
- Experience working with Agile methodology
- Experience working in a multi-product environment
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Proven track record of delivering successful and innovative products
- Don’t check all the boxes? That’s okay! We encourage you to still apply if you feel like you possess an adjacent skillset and are interested in learning more about this position.
What You Can Expect
- Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
- A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created
- Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.
- Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.
- Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work
- Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.
The Interview Process
- Recruiter Screen - 30mins
- Hiring Manager Interview - 1hr
- Peer Panel Interview - 1hr
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We endeavour to make our interview process as accessible as possible. If you need any assistance prior to your interview, including any reasonable adjustments, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.