Football Product Manager

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Department:Product Management

Employment Type:Full Time

Location:Basingstoke, UK

Description

Football Product Manager

A day in the life of a Sports Product Manager

As a Football Product Manager at Hawk-Eye Innovations, you will be part of a team that is focused on the global opportunities for Football, both now and in the future, combining business development with driving client-led innovation across the sport.

You will work closely with clients to identify solutions that will fulfil their strategies from a technical perspective; investigate and understand the current opportunities for Football, identify where existing solutions meet demand and create a longer-term vision for Football in line with the Hawk-Eye business strategy.

Internally you will work closely with the Product Squads in bringing together expertise for Football-specific solutions, the Sales and commercial teams to research the market and competition, and form a strategic roadmap to ensure we are pursuing the most valuable opportunities for our customers and the business. In addition, you will work with the Product Platform Managers to recommend and roll out existing solutions ensuring business viability.

For prioritised initiatives, you will work in collaboration with the Product and Enabling Squads to ideate and create solutions in an iterative, agile environment, to deliver value faster and ensure continuous learning and improvement.

You will be responsible for ensuring the solution meets the demand and continue to monitor and develop the solution over its lifetime, providing an invaluable link between the customer and centralised product squads.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior global sports heads to lead the charge of technology within Football; ensuring Hawk-Eye remain a global leader in sports innovation
• Understand customer strategies to identify opportunities for technology in Football
• Co-create the Football roadmap with major federations and clients, analysing their needs and aligning the Football roadmap to strategic goals
• Co-create story maps with the product teams to iteratively develop new solutions
• Serving as the voice of the user, client and business goals
• Provide context to and collaborate closely with one or multiple cross-functional teams of product managers, delivery managers, engineers and designers to define, build and deliver high-value products
• Support the ownership of strategic product roadmaps, ensuring there is continual dialogue internally to agree on priorities
• Engage with sales teams/regional MDs to understand opportunities that emerge from client relationships
• Find new applications for existing technology in Football
• Work with the Product Owners to provide existing solutions to meet customer demand
• Conduct primary and secondary research to develop insights, and themes and define areas of opportunity
• Create initiatives (Projects) articulating product and market narrative
• Write strategy, key objectives and results and monitor the data to help make business decisions
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning, ideation and concept development of a product
• Recognise all cultural differences across Football and regions, and build customer solutions that meet their strategic need in a powerful and culturally sensitive manner
• Accountable for ensuring the solution meets the requirements (UAT)
• Cross regional and global solutions leadership and act as a figure head for Football Innovations and ideation across the business
• Informs the risks of Value and Business Viability
• Working at a portfolio level
  

Skills Knowledge And Expertise

• Deep-level understanding of Football incl day to day operational and performance needs and future growth opportunities
• 2-3 years in a Product Manager role managing all stages of the digital product life cycle with relevant stakeholder management experience;
• Experience working with technically complex products;
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver on common goals;
• Defining minimum marketable features and minimum viable products;
• Experience in writing requirements and acceptance criteria;
• Client-facing and internal communication skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Stakeholder management and leadership;
• Product roadmap definition experience;
• Understanding the technologies used in the products worked on.
  

Nice To Have (but Not a Deal-breaker)

• Experience working with creating and delivering products within a business-to-business setting;
• Experience working on products that combine software and hardware.
  

Our Product Team

As a Football Product Manager, you will be a part of a larger Product team that consists of experienced Product Managers, Product Engineers, Delivery Managers and UX/UI professionals all reporting to the Product Director.

Our Product Team Culture

Our Product Department at Hawk-Eye is built on a culture shaped by openness and honesty, along with a desire to push the boundaries of technology and innovation. We are collaborative but also run with autonomy, and are focused on providing global opportunities for any given sport. Our business and output are challenging and we thrive in a world that is constantly changing and evolving. We are agile and strive for the highest quality in everything we do. As a team, we are constantly learning, challenging and pushing ourselves.

Our Products

At Hawk-Eye Innovations, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation within the global sports industry. As part of our team, you will work closely with exceptional people and the most cutting-edge products, which we have built in-house along with user-focused solutions.

Benefits

In addition to being a part of a great team, working in a fun and creative environment and learning from the best technical minds in the sports industry, we offer:

• 25 days annual leave in addition to 8 public holidays;
• Enhanced pension scheme (with 5% matching);
• Flexible working
• Optional private healthcare
• Complimentary Unmind app
• Access to sporting events and tickets
• Onsite Gym (Basingstoke)
• Sony Group Company Discounts
  

Equal Opportunity Employer

Hawk-Eye is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability, or union membership status.