Who We Are
The world's top sports betting and lottery brands choose OpenBet as their partner for world class content, leading tech and tailored service. We have their back, so they’re ready with exciting, memorable and safe sports betting experiences to entertain billions of players worldwide.
Endeavor is a global sports and entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events, and experiences. The Endeavor network specializes in talent representation through entertainment agency WME; sports operations and advisory, event management, media production and distribution, and brand licensing through IMG; live event experiences and hospitality through On Location; full-service marketing through global cultural marketing agency 160over90; and sports data and technology through IMG ARENA and OpenBet. Endeavor is also the majority owner of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company comprising UFC and WWE.
The Team
OpenBet leads the global gaming market, providing innovative software that powers the world’s most successful operators.
We pride ourselves on product innovation and technical excellence and are constantly adding new applications and new functionality to our product suite, used by billions of end users. And, while many other companies have been downsizing, we continue to see growth across our business.
Want to be part of our story?
The Goal
Your role as a Senior Project Manager has a key role in delivering complex projects that involves participation of several departments, 3rd party providers as well as external customers. Projects may vary and be relating to anything from implementing new digital payment methods across several banks to upgrading datacenter hardware or developing complex new betting functionality.
You will work on process improvements, maintaining and updating documentation, coordinating ongoing activity with the agile development teams and manages stakeholder expectations to deliver complex projects on budget and on time.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Manages the day-to-day client stakeholder interaction and planning for multiple large-scale projects.
- Manage project pipeline and resource allocation across the account to maintain high team utilisation
- Financial management of projects within team, including project creation, time tracking and approval, and month end processes to support the finance department
- In conjunction with the associated Development Lead / Senior Software Engineer(s), matrix management of a team of developers involved in developing and maintaining processes for efficient delivery of software to customers across the account / functional area
- Reviewing working relationships with the customer. Proactively provide continuous improvement by investigating ways to improve the quality of communication, processes and deliverables
- Escalate commercial issues (where appropriate) to the Sales Department, including breaches of the license agreement and highlighting potential business opportunities
- Maintain and provide all stakeholders with a clear resource view from a capacity and capability perspective
- Managing and motivating technical teams, involving both local and remote teams, to deliver software enhancement projects
- Work with the client and internal support teams to manage production Incident investigations and fixes.
- Working with internal and external teams to plan and manage production deployments across multiple time zones.
The Player
You will have…
- Strong analytical skills to assess the performance of the team to drive continuous improvement and act upon key business KPIs
- The desire to motivate and drive continuous improvement
- Strong risk management skills
- Strong experience in a project management role within a software development environment
- Excellent external and internal stakeholder management skills at all levels
- Experience of leading a medium sized project team with full accountability
- Ability to set or implement priorities and focus teams on what is most important
- Strong understanding of the SDLC including experience with Agile Development methodologies.
Desirable
- Scrum Master certification
- Experience of working in the Online Gaming and Sports betting industry
- Other formal Project Management qualifications such as APM or PMP
- Development experience
- Release Management experience
- Tools experience - JIRA, Confluence, Tenrox, O365, Monday.com
- Profit and Loss tracking
- Experience of working in a software supplier environment managing external stakeholders
Why would you enjoy working with us at OpenBet?
- Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
- The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow
- Tangible and genuine development - at OpenBet, you can take your career where you want it to go!
- Exposure to real work, business-critical projects and the chance to develop some of the world’s leading e-commerce sportsbooks whilst working on exciting client projects and interact with lots of code!
- Experience the full Endeavor network including prominent sporting brands such as UFC, WWE and IMG.
And if that’s not enough; you will get to enjoy flexible working whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress quickly and enhance your career.
Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. As a global company that drives culture, we strive to reflect the world’s diverse voices.
Endeavor is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.
