We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

LOCATION: Must reside within the United States
WORK TYPE: Remote, within the United States

OVERVIEW:

The Senior Program Manager in Sportradar is responsible for implementing best program management practices to enable the successful delivery of a broad range of Product related projects and programs, internally and external customer facing, to ensure they are delivered on time, to requirement, on budget and delivering the forecasted revenues.

Reporting to the Head of Program Management for Sport Performance, this role is responsible for the overall Delivery management function for the Performance Optimization and Insights Tribe, a new team within Sportradar working to delivery new insights using modern data science techniques. The Tribe Program Management Lead is responsible for implementing best program and delivery management practice to enable the successful delivery of measurable business outcomes in an incremental manner, to enable the successful delivery of a broad range of Product related projects and programs for internal and external customers, to ensure they are delivered on time, to requirement, on budget and delivering the forecasted revenues.

Through this, the successful candidate will lead in executing improvements in business agility and will influence and evangelize the continuous improvement mindset and agile at scale.

A key focus will be ensuring the coordination of complex programs across teams (Tribes) and functional groups, whilst keeping key stakeholders fully up-to-date on status (including facilitating impediment resolution and managing risks).

Sportradar is a global company.

THE CHALLENGE:

• Ensure the successful implementation of the Program Delivery Framework, responsibilities, services, and deliverables in an agile delivery context.
• Form one part of the ‘Three in the Box’ working in unison with the product and engineering leadership to take responsibility for technical and commercial deliverables for the tribe.
• Provide and maintain a capacity planning and resource tracking service across programs, and oversee recruitment of suitably high caliber delivery and Program resources to fill the growing needs to the Tribe and Business.
• Help shape and evolve the processes and principles to improve the consistency and effectiveness of program delivery execution; improving predictability, alignment and visibility.
• Work with the vertical leads to evolve and embed program control and governance that is consistent with company-wide practices.
• Provide planning, milestone management, scope management, resource forecasting.
• Implement governance and consistent prioritization process across programs.
• Responsible for cross-tribe dependencies to ensure they are managed effectively
• Ensure transparent and regular reporting to the key stakeholders to ensure program status is clearly understood and timely decisions can be taken.
• Responsible for ensuring the team compiles financial and KPI information so that initiatives are kept on track and within quality criteria.
• Ensure appropriate new key program benefits are identified and quantified where possible; and in conjunction with the Financial Controller, prepare and present cost-benefit analyses to support business case development for the implementation of key Programs.
• Help coordinate and compile the yearly Tribe budgets.
• Oversee the coordination of Product launches with Product Owners, Support, Marketing, Sales and Legal teams across the business.
• Coordinate key delivery closure retrospectives to distil good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged.
• Ensure efficient change control methods and processes are in place.
• Liaison with Sportradar’s Content teams to ensure product readiness for commercial opportunities are aligned with the larger Content strategy.
• Coordinate with Sportradar Content teams to complete delivery aspects of RFPs and ensure proposals are realistic and achievable from a time, cost and quality perspective.
• Lead a team of experienced delivery and program managers, maximizing the team capabilities to drive high quality and efficient delivery to maximize business outcomes

YOUR PROFILE:

• Bachelor's degree Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience in project or program management.
• 3+ years of experience in Agile Software development (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery
• Bonus: Experience managing production machine learning software roadmaps

Pay Range: $118,400 - $130,000
Sportradar intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to experience, qualifications, and location. Base pay is just one component of the Total Rewards that Sportradar provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Sportradar offers best-in-class benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, performance bonus program, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution. Please consult with your recruiter to learn more as all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences