Software Engineering Vice President - Sportsbook

THE POSITION

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The VP of Sports book Product Engineering will play a critical role in leading our product engineering teams to deliver rapidly incremental customer value. You will lead a talented team of engineers responsible for building a next‑gen customer experience that powers America's #1 Sports book, including personalized experiences, live‑betting experiences, generosity, searching and navigation, social and other innovative features. This role requires a fast‑paced technology leader that puts the customer first, using strong leadership and communication skills to work product leadership and drive their teams to deliver customer value every two‑weeks.

The capacity to make decisions fast, through a blend of strategic thinking, technical expertise and a bias for action is key.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN

Everyone on our team has a part to play.

In this role, you will develop and execute the strategic vision for the Sports book product engineering organization, ensuring it aligns with the overall Sports book Product and Technology Strategy and Fan Duel business objectives. Collaboration with executive leadership, Product and Sports book Core Engineering is crucial to define goals, metrics, and ways of working. You will lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of fast‑paced innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent is key to building a high‑performing and motivated team.

You will oversee the design and development of innovative sports book customer experiences. Ensuring the teams are operating with a customer‑first mindset, delivering quality and performant experiences that bring something new to the customer every two weeks is essential. Implementing best practices for engineering, including continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and incident response, is critical to maintain operational excellence during peak betting events and live sports.

You will partner with Sports book Core Engineering leaders to ensure high availability, performance, and security of sports book services with a focus on minimizing downtime during critical sporting events and managing technical debt. The platform must handle massive traffic spikes during major sporting events while maintaining sub‑second response times for bet placement and settlement.

You will also collaborate with the Sports book Core Engineering leaders to support complex changes to the systems and architecture and to prioritize architecture and service evolution that allows your teams in product engineering to deliver autonomously faster and better customer value.

Collaboration and communication are fundamental to this role. You will work closely with product management and other cross‑functional teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet our business goals. Communicating Sports book product engineering plans, progress, and outcomes to stakeholders ensures transparency and alignment.

Staying abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes is vital to drive innovation and competitive advantage in the sports betting space. You will evaluate and implement new tools, technologies and processes to enhance sports book customers experience with innovative, performant and intuitive features.

You will manage the Sports book product engineering budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources, and investment in strategic initiatives.

• Develop and execute the strategic vision for the Sports book product engineering organization, aligned with the overall Sports book Engineering strategy

• Collaborate with Sports book Core Engineering and Sports book Product team to define sports book product engineering goals, metrics, and ways of working

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement

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