Product Manager

Job Description

Eurosport Digital is Discovery's primary drive into the Direct to Consumer business in Europe. It currently comprises two parts; Eurosport.com - the continent's number one sports news website - and Eurosport Player, a leading subscription-based OTT sports platform available across Europe.

The business is in a period of high growth, fueled by investment in rights, marketing, product and content.

Role Summary
Over 30 years, Eurosport has established itself as a household name for sports. Now, Discovery has re-energised Eurosport and is investing heavily in ways that connect fans to the sports they love.

Eurosport produces authentic, premium, and innovative content on linear and digital platforms under a variety of business models. Eurosport combines expertise, passion, and exclusive sports rights to offer high-value programmes and unrivalled coverage to viewers and customers in 99 countries and in 21 languages. Having established itself as the exclusive Home of the Olympic Games in Europe through 2024, there's no better time than now to join Eurosport on this incredible adventure!

Core to Eurosport's strategy for engaging sports audience is creating intuitive, innovative, and delightful digital products. This role is instrumental to delivering against our digital strategy.

As the a Mobile Apps Product Manager for Eurosport Digital, you will own part of the scope of the Eurosport mobile apps product – features, functionality, UX&D – end-to-end and lead development and innovation on our 'go to' digital platform. This role reports to the Digital Product Director, Eurosport Digital, and will develop close relationships with the wider product, engineering, marketing, editorial, and commercial teams to define and deliver products that deliver value to Eurosport's customers.

Responsibilities

As a Mobile Apps Product Manager, you will:
• Develop detailed requirements documentation (Confluence) that will be used a centralized source of information

• Detail Jira tickets to document requirements and acceptance criteria for new mobile apps features

• Conduct independent analysis to help prioritise features and user impacts in a structured, data-driven manner

• Proactively gather information and data from stakeholders and facilitate analysis to identify gaps, issues and opportunities

• Ensure complex business needs are documented in simple use cases, constantly considering impacts and requirements on both iOS and Android platforms

• Support agile delivery from teams working with Product Managers, Engineering, User Experience and Design to deliver to deadlines

• Identify issues and report on progress to leadership, help problem solve and support in options analysis to unblock stakeholder teams

Requirements
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management or related field

• experience in mobile apps product development. The ideal candidate is already working on a mobile product of critical value to their business, participating in the development roadmap, measuring progress, securing commitments and collaborating with engineering and development.

• Sport fan

• Strong problem-solving capabilities, can-do attitude and willingness to learn new skill sets

• Ability to produce project reports, product brief and assessments, requirements and tickets that are clear and useful to the teams

• Experience with JIRA and Confluence

• Ability to work across multiple projects and have the ability to prioritise based on state of projects, urgency to ensure deadlines are met

• Good technical aptitude and understanding of the mobile apps development process, methodologies and frameworks

• Strong written and verbal communications skills.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwn4op-3-139-104-214-42 in your application.