Sports Owners

Hard Rock Digital•Hollywood, FL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hard Rock Digital is building a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social casino company in the world. We are seeking individuals who are passionate about learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We value every customer interaction, experience, behavior, and insight, and strive to act authentically. Rooted in the spirit of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, we are leveraging a globally recognized brand in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality to expand into the digital space. The Sports Owner will operate at a Senior Trader level within the Sportsbook Trading Team. The core responsibilities include price management, risk oversight, and ensuring the accuracy and competitiveness of our sportsbook offering across all sports. Additionally, the Sports Owner will take named ownership of a specific sport, serving as the internal authority for that product. This includes driving its pricing strategy, feature set, and competitive positioning, while remaining involved in the day-to-day trading and risk responsibilities of the team. We are looking for sports owners with specialist expertise in NHL, Combat Sports, Golf, Table Tennis, eSports, and Tennis. Each owner will be the recognized specialist for their sport, providing internal expertise on its markets, pricing, and content offering, while also contributing to the overall performance of the trading desk. The role involves managing multiple third-party data feeds and trading tools to maintain market integrity, optimize margins, and mitigate risk, with a specific focus on the owned sport and broader coverage responsibilities. Responsibilities include responding to market movements in real-time, ensuring competitive and compliant pricing, and leading efforts to refine and improve the owned sport's pricing, market depth, and feature parity against competitors. The role requires developing a deep understanding of trading systems and third-party integrations. For the owned sport, the Sports Owner will help define requirements, benchmark against competitors, and provide testing insights to the product and trading teams. Strong trading judgment, contribution to operational excellence, and support for junior trader development are essential.

Requirements

Decisive and analytical thinker.
Comfortable making real-time trading decisions in a fast-paced environment.
Extensive sportsbook trading experience.
Strong grasp of risk management principles.
Deep, demonstrable expertise as a sports owner, including its rules, nuances, player analytics, and betting behaviors.
Excellent attention to detail.
Strong numerical and technical skills.
Ability to interpret data to inform both day-to-day trading decisions and longer-term strategy.
Proactive and organized.
Comfortable working non-standard hours to ensure coverage of key sporting events, including those outside the owned sport.
Proven ability to react quickly and logically during live events or high-volume periods.
Proven ability to manage, assess, and optimize third-party odds and data feeds.
Experience creating bespoke prices where needed and resolving feed issues to maintain data accuracy.
Conduct regular competitor benchmarking for the owned sport across major operators, assessing pricing competitiveness, market uptime, and feature parity.
Evaluate the effectiveness of trading strategies and product performance.
Analyze large datasets to identify value leaks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Proficiency in Excel and trading platforms.
Provide guidance and coaching to junior and mid-level traders, sharing best practice in bookmaking, modelling, and risk principles.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present insights clearly and collaborate effectively across multiple teams and senior stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience with BI tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Tableau is an advantage.

Responsibilities

Operate at Senior Trader level within the Sportsbook Trading Team.
Manage price management and risk oversight for the sportsbook offering.
Ensure the accuracy and competitiveness of the sportsbook offering across all sports.
Take named ownership of a specific sport, acting as the internal authority.
Drive pricing strategy, feature set, and competitive positioning for the owned sport.
Remain embedded in day-to-day team trading and risk responsibilities.
Act as the recognized specialist for the owned sport, providing expertise on its markets, pricing, and content offering.
Contribute to the collective performance of the wider trading desk.
Manage multiple third-party data feeds and trading tools to maintain market integrity, optimize margins, and mitigate risk.
Respond to market movements in real time.
Ensure pricing remains both competitive and compliant.
Refine and improve the owned sport's pricing, market depth, and feature parity relative to competitors.
Develop a deep understanding of trading systems and third-party integrations.
Define requirements, benchmark against competitors, and feed testing insights back into product and trading teams for the owned sport.
Demonstrate strong trading judgment.
Contribute to operational excellence across the team's shared workload.
Support the training and development of junior traders.
Monitor real-time exposure across covered sports, proactively identify betting patterns and sharp action, set appropriate limits, and implement risk management protocols to protect margin and profitability.
React quickly and logically during live events or high-volume periods.
Manage, assess, and optimize third-party odds and data feeds for the owned sport and general trading responsibilities.
Create bespoke prices where needed and resolve feed issues to maintain data accuracy.
Conduct regular competitor benchmarking for the owned sport across major operators, assessing pricing competitiveness, market uptime, and feature parity.
Feed findings into product, quant, and trading management to shape roadmap priorities and pricing improvements.
Evaluate the effectiveness of trading strategies and product performance.
Analyze large datasets to identify value leaks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Produce data-driven reports for senior management highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities.
Provide guidance and coaching to junior and mid-level traders, sharing best practices.
Fulfill standard Senior Trader responsibilities across the wider desk.
Partner with product, quant, technology, and operations teams to develop new markets, refine customer experience, and support innovation for the owned sport.
Contribute insights that benefit the broader sportsbook.
Communicate insights clearly and collaborate effectively across multiple teams and senior stakeholders.