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
We are looking for a Product Owner to join our high-performance core platforms and experiences team. This is a key role in a fast-paced environment working with multiple delivery teams and a wide range of stakeholders across the business. If you’re excited by this challenge and want to work within a dynamic company, then we’d love to hear from you.
This role will specifically focus on the refer a friend and FanDuel homepage, where you will focus on building out merchandising and experimental functionality, working closely with engineering, marketing and analytics.
You will:
- Be responsible for eliciting requirements, in the form of user stories & acceptance criteria, prioritizing the product backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components
- Establish and maintain domain expertise including complex process flows and legal and regulatory requirements for our industry.
- Work within a collaborative environment, liaising closely with an extensive list of stakeholders including engineering, marketing & product analytics.
- Bring fresh ideas to the table when working to solve business problems, using your understanding of the KYC / AML domain to generate innovative solutions for both our customers and business stakeholders.
- Be an enabling force for driving through effective and sustainable change and guiding the business through the journey.
- Play an integral role in a self-organizing agile delivery team, ensuring solutions adhere to state regulations for our products while serving the needs of each of our products (Sportsbook, Fantasy Sports, Racing, and Casino).
- Understand and communicate the problem whilst putting the customers experience of the product first.
- Play a key role within the PO community here at FanDuel, sharing your best practices and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and cross-skilling.
What We’re Looking For
- A self-starter able to work both autonomously with minimal supervision and collaboratively within an agile team
- Experience of, or passion for, Agile delivery processes (used in software or web-based products) and a willingness and enthusiasm to promote a culture of inspect and adapt
- Experience conducting stakeholder interviews and facilitating stakeholder workshops
- Ability to define and refine user stories, write acceptance criteria, and definition of done processes
- Exceptional analysis skills and a focus on what the problem means to the customer
- Drives high standards for individual accomplishment and works to meet or exceed challenging goals
- Extremely communicative and able to communicate effectively with engineering and business stakeholders alike
- High level of self-awareness displayed and resilient to change
- Ability to constructively challenge and question as well as actively listen
- Is used to working in a fast-paced environment helping to provide clarity to delivery teams when priorities change
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
- Recruitment Screen (30mins)
- Hiring Manager Interview (60mins)
- Technical Interview (30mins)
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.
Location: Our Scottish tech hub is based in central Edinburgh and is fitted with fabulous amenities including a Gym, showers, bike parking, gaming pods, multiple breakout areas, meeting rooms, a roof terrace and much more. We operate a hybrid model for the majority of our roles, where we normally spend a day or two in the office per week.
This team gather on-site every Thursday in our Edinburgh Tech Hub.