Associate Product Owner Manager

About Betfair Romania Development

Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.

Our Values

The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.

• Win together
• Raise the bar
• Got your back
• Own it
• Positive impact

About Flutter UKI

Flutter UK & Ireland are the UKI region of Flutter Entertainment. They unite a dozen brands including powerhouses Paddy Power, Betfair, Tombola and Sky Betting & Gaming, bringing together hundreds of teams and thousands of colleagues, who create trusted entertainment for millions of customers every week.

Role Overview

We are looking for an Associate Product Owner Manager to lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Product Owners, each owning demanding backlogs across UKI Gaming Community and Free-To-Play. The role reports to a Product Owner Manager and combines the responsibilities of a Lead Product Owner with people leadership, offering the opportunity to influence both product outcomes and team development at scale.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching, and mentoring Product Owners, helping build their confidence, skills, and delivery consistency.
• Skilled at assessing team maturity in areas such as agile practices, backlog health, and delivery predictability, and implementing structures that support growth.
• Balances strategic oversight with empowering POs to take full ownership of their domains.
• Proficient in evaluating backlog quality, ensuring clarity of stories, alignment to value, effective dependency management, and readiness for development.
• Capable of aligning competing priorities—such as regulatory, operational, supplier, and commercial needs—into a clear, agreed prioritisation framework.
• Adept at translating complex technical or platform-related work into clear, outcome-focused updates for non-technical stakeholders.
• Builds stakeholder trust through transparent communication, tangible delivery evidence, and proactive risk management.
• Clearly articulates and communicates the value delivered by the platform tribe, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
• Actively contributes to improving cross-tribe collaboration and embedding best practices across multiple teams.
• Promotes a culture of feedback and continuous improvement, supported by coaching and regular stakeholder feedback loops.
• Confident leading in a technical environment, with enough understanding of APIs, integrations, and platform architecture to guide discussions and ask the right questions without being hands-on.

Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required

• Demonstrated leadership and problem-solving skills
• Prior Product Delivery, Product Management & People Management experience
• Eye for continuous improvement needs and frameworks to enable improvement
• Experience working in software delivery and understanding the delivery process
• Ability to engage with and get the best out of people in teams
• Ability to work through a large set of unknowns and translate them into effective plans
• Experience of leading teams (or virtual teams) and developing talent
• Knowledge of gaming products and technology environments that enable these products
• Experience working in Product Engineering domains in analysis, delivery, product lifecycle and support of products and capabilities
• Ability to ideate and create solutions that address challenges and opportunities for our customers
• Ability to work through a large set of unknowns and translate them into Product, Process or Tech requirements
• Ability to formulate and communicate strategy
• Experience of leading teams, coaching and developing talent

Benefits

• Hybrid & remote working options
• €1,000 per year for self-development
• Company share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave per year
• 20 days per year to work abroad
• 5 personal days/year
• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
• Extended health, dental and travel insurances
• Customized well-being programmes
• Career growth sessions
• Thousands of online courses through Udemy
• A variety of engaging office events

Key skills/competency

• Product Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Backlog Management
• People Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Strategic Planning
• Software Delivery
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Technical Acumen
• Gaming Industry Knowledge