Product Director

Hi there! ⚽️

This position is open to South-East and North Asia region candidates.

At Sporty Group our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone! 

 🔎 What are we looking for:

• An excellent Web/App Product Director to join our remote team.
• Unlike a 9-to-5 job, you will work remotely for us. Probably from your home in the APAC region.

⭐️ If You

• Are passionate about new technology, prefer clean code and are able to work independently.
• Have great communication skills.
  
  

Who Are We❓

Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platform which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.

The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.

We have already built a capable and proven team of 300+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds  and we are looking for more talented individuals to drive further growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity and hard work that currently serves our users further via their grit and innovation.

🚀 Purpose of the role

The Director of Product Management is a vital member of Sporty who owns the product roadmap across all products, while transforming our product management team into a world-class organization, through superior data analysis, innovation and execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Reporting to the CTO, the role will own the operation of the Product Management team.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the issues affecting the company and makes strategic decisions to ensure the company navigates in the right direction.
• Own delivery of product initiatives and releases; able to communicate both the business and technical rationale behind the product decisions. 
• Collaborate across various functions (Product Management, Engineering, Product Design) to develop overall product strategy and define the vision, roadmap, and goals for our products.
• Provide fact-based data analysis to ensure new product offerings meet customer demands; provide superior quality at scale and distinguish Sporty from existing and future competitive offerings.
• Partner with engineering to establish rapid product development and deployment processes with a small team that can accelerate, build, design, test and launch releases with constant updates.
• Oversee feature prioritization for the development teams and keep programs running on time within an agile development environment.
• Work closely with a cross functional product team to lead the definition and execution of Sporty product strategy from insight to go-to-market execution.
• Ability to be an industry opinion leader, such as industry visibility, attending conferences, giving talks, publishing blog posts, hosting meetups.

Requirements

• 10+ years mobile/digital Product Management.
• Experience delivering successful mobile/Digital product(s), at scale, while owning vision, strategy, data and execution of that product line.
• Prior start-up experience or an entrepreneurial mentality validated by success within unstructured environments, a rapid integration mindset, and a clear affinity for the customer.
• An excellent team builder. Demonstrated ability to define, refine, and implement development processes, resource planning, metrics, and documentation.
• Excellent customer management, project management skills and ability to work across functions to drive business goals.
• Experience working on a small, talented team to execute sharply. 
• Ability to unblocks systemic blockers for direct reports and the business.
  
  

 🤝 Why work with us?

• Quarterly and flash bonuses
• Flexible working hours
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Education allowance
• Referral bonuses
• Annual company retreat - we’re off to Dubai 2022!
• Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organization
• We score 100% on The Joel Test
• Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
• Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members
  
  

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, we can't wait to hear from you!