Product Owner

About Kindred

Kindred Group is a digital entertainment pioneer bringing together nine successful online gambling brands, forming one of the largest online gambling groups in the world. Our purpose is to transform gambling by being a trusted source of entertainment that contributes positively to society. Our goal is that 0% revenue is derived from harmful gambling.

Our global team of more than 2000 people represents 60+ nationalities. When you join Kindred, you'll be part of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive team that has your best interest at heart. We are a trusting company that knows the value of a healthy work-life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits, along with an award-winning all-employee share program, which is a great opportunity to share in the company's success.

The role:
Kindred Group is one of the world's largest online gambling businesses. The Online Gambling industry is currently going through a big transformation with a substantial number of new technologies and services emerging to support the increasingly complex industrial demands.

Kindred is in the midst of extending its current award-winning proprietary Kindred Racing Platform into a full in-house Sportsbook platform, which reflects Kindred's long-term strategy of greater end-to-end control of its product offering and customer experience. We are a global cross-functional team driving this initiative within Frontend and Backend development, Data Science, Quant, and Product Design in close collaboration with the Business stakeholders. We are looking for an experienced Product Owner that is as excited as we are to transform gambling.

As a Product Owner within the Kindred group, you are highly empowered, which means you will have control over your own work and are expected and encouraged to take on new tasks without someone managing you in detail. You embrace pressure and feel pride in always delivering the best with a friendly attitude.

What you will do:
Acting as a Tech Delivery expert and Leader:

- Deploy agile development and delivery methods, ensuring that principles of human centred design thinking are embraced through the delivery process with the aim of delivering world class experiences.
- Liaise with Kindred business delivery teams and key business stakeholders to secure efficient management of your backlogs and handling of new business initiatives.
- Ensure maximum business value of scheduled work, define business and technical requirements, translate them into workable Epics and User Stories and ensure timely deliveries of the backlog items.
- Support the teams by participating in scrum ceremonies like daily, backlog grooming and planning.
- Provide full visibility and transparency on capacity planning for the backlogs and clearly communicate capacity and estimations to key stake holders.
- Engage close communication with relevant stakeholders such as business owners, UX, PO's and tech teams on business initiatives and release schedules, secure visibility of feature progress.
- Act like a lead coordinator when needed, feel comfortable managing deliveries from start to end and drive development and project progress across multiple teams and backlogs.

Acting as a Customer Champion and Change Ambassador:

- Work alongside the Product Engineering Lead on executing Kindred's key experiences, across customer journeys, across all channels and contribute to create experiences that set industry standards for delighting customers, and contribute to maximum agile flow of delivery, efficiency, and productivity.
- Use all available customer understanding and analytics tools for product decisions purposes.
- Exhibit a “customer first” behavior, step into our customer shoes and constantly find improvements.
- Engage CX/UX teams with dilemmas and incorporate these teams in the weekly schedule and establish ways of working with these teams.

How will success be measured in this role:

- Regular performance reviews with your line manager.
- Acting in line with Kindred Group values.
- Successful completion of all relevant training and other compliance activities that support Kindred's sustainable and responsible growth.

Your experience:

- Solid experience working as either Product Owner or Scrum Master role in agile development.
- Genuine passion for customer interaction and perception of used services.
- Fantastic communication and presentation skills.
- Creative and Strategic thinker with a positive attitude.
- Have a data and evidence driven mind-set in decision making.
- Excellent English speaking and writing skills.
- Must thrive in multi-tasking, quick moving, demanding environment.
- Experience and passion for gambling and racing is required.

Personal attributes:
You are an outgoing and social person with a mature and positive attitude who puts pride in being part of the whole product lifecycle. You enjoy problem solving and have an interest in innovative ideas and technologies to help you achieve team goals. You n