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Senior Technical Product Manager, Core Platform

extra holidays - extra parental leave

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

Pennsylvania (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

5-8+ years of product management experience, Background in computer science or related field, Working knowledge of backend system components, Comfortable with platform thinking and methodologies.

Key responsabilities:

Work closely with stakeholders to discover pain points
Conduct market research and internal discovery for new ideas
Lead product development process and prioritize technical backlogs
Improve kanban methodologies and manage release process

Penn Interactive Leisure & Entertainment Scaleup https://www.penn-interactive.com/

201 - 500 Employees

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Job description

Penn Interactive (PI) is an interactive gaming company headquartered in Philadelphia. PI is the digital arm of PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ: PENN), the largest regional casino operator in the U.S.). Our mission is to challenge the norms of the gaming industry by building an immersive interactive gaming experience that is responsible, innovative, and fun. We are committed to helping our team members grow and succeed. We believe that hiring talented individuals that love what they do will help us win!

About the Role & Team

Our mission on the Core Platform team is to centralize third party data ingestion and establish a single source of truth for sports data. As a Senior Technical Product Manager on the team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with talented and friendly developers to learn more about the cutting edge technology they use and help shape our strategy and vision. You’ll get to combine your business acumen and technical expertise to discover and deliver innovative solutions to common problems across the organization

About the Work

As a Senior Technical Product Manager on the Core Platform team you will:

Work closely with business and engineering stakeholders to discover their pain points
Conduct technical market research to help guide internal decisions on initiatives
Conduct internal discovery and ideation sessions to validate new ideas
Work together with engineering and product stakeholders to gain insights and alignment
Gain a working knowledge of cutting edge technologies and concepts (ie. Kafka)
Leverage your insights to help shape the Core Platform team’s strategy and roadmap
Lead the day to day product development process for the Core Platform team
Gather and refine technical requirements into executable and testable units of work
Continuously improve kanban methodologies used by the team to accelerate processes
Prioritize technical backlogs based on engineering and business objectives
Manage the release process jointly with the Release Management team
Other duties as required

About You

5-8+ years of product management experience in a technical environment
Background in computer science, business, IT, or related field
Have working knowledge of various components in a backend system (ie. microservices, databases, messaging system)
Have working knowledge of platform thinking and methodologies (ie. designing for reuse, abstracting complexity, etc.)
Comfortable going deep into the inner workings of technology to be able to work with developers to collect and prioritize technical requirements
Strong stakeholder and project management skills
Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to senior/executive stakeholders
Must be a team player and self-starter
Nice to have: experience with Kubernetes, Databases, Kafka or DataDog
Nice to have: experience with the data engineering lifecycle, specifically data governance topics such as discoverability, integrity, etc.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation package.
Fun, relaxed work environment.
Education and conference reimbursements.
Parental leave top up.
Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others.

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Recently being recognized as a top workplace in the United States, we believe people work their best when they can be themselves. We are looking for hungry, innovative thinkers to help us challenge the status quo of the gaming industry. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to all of our processes, programs, and structures. Your story, who you are, and your experience matter here.