Senior Sportsbook Trader

Penn Interactive

8h•Remote

About The Position

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is seeking a Senior Sportsbook Trader to join their expanding trading and risk team at Penn Interactive. This role is crucial for managing sportsbook risk, pricing, performance, and content. The ideal candidate will be highly professional, organized, enthusiastic, data-driven, possess a strong interest in sports and sports betting, and be motivated to continuously improve the product. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge platforms and contribute to becoming one of the biggest operators in the world.

Requirements

Proven experience in assessing and calculating risk.
Flexibility is a must as working hours will be dictated by business needs. Must be able to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends, and public holidays.
Strong sports betting and/or trading experience is highly desired.
Data obsessed, not just data driven, with exceptional attention to detail.
Excellent mathematical, analytical and problem solving skills.
Ability to work in a fast paced environment and make decisions quickly.
Exceptional time management skills.
Strong all round sports betting knowledge and a keen interest in betting and odds is considered an asset.

Responsibilities

Pre-match and in-play pricing, trading, and promotion of US and global sports betting products.
Compiling odds for a wide variety of US and global sports betting markets.
Managing the full lifecycle of Special Markets, from ideation to settlement.
Monitoring market liabilities.
Managing customer risk profiles on all digital channels in partnership with analytics teams.
Working with analytics teams to investigate market trends and predict customer betting patterns to improve revenue.
Updating futures markets on a regular basis.
Liaising with Customer Services/Payments/Fraud teams to identify fraudulent activity.
Liaising with the marketing team to suggest, evaluate, and price potential promotional offers.
Ensuring all markets are set up with correct market limits and reviewed through season cycles.
Compiling and circulating reports to inform stakeholders of business performance and forthcoming activities.
Contributing to product development and testing to improve customer experience.
Other duties as required.