Technical Product Manager, Two Circles
Powering Partnership Measurement in Sport
$90-115k
Data-driven sports marketing
Open for applications
Data-driven sports marketing
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$90-115k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To use data to grow the value of sports.
Role
Who you are
- 3–5 years in product management, with a focus on data platform, products, or internal tools; engineering (especially data engineering) background a bonus
- Strong understanding of data lifecycle management: ingestion, transformation, modelling, governance, and analytics enablement
- Experience working with modern data infrastructure and tooling (e.g. Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, DBT, Redshift)
- Able to navigate technical discussions with engineers and translate them into clear requirements for delivery
- Comfortable in agile, cross-functional environments; proactive communicator and problem solver
- Familiar with data quality and monitoring practices, data observability, schema standardization, and documentation workflows
- Familiar with AI and machine learning to enhance data products, including defining use cases for predictive analytics, generative AI, and automation
- Bonus: experience with social, digital, streaming and broadcast media, computer vision, content contextualization
- Double Bonus: experience working in the sports and entertainment industry
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to work on the KORE Intelligence platform
- You'll be joining the Partnership Measurement team, responsible for evolving our data pipeline – starting with our SportGraphTM through to ingestion, enrichment, analysis and visualization
- You’ll take ownership of backend-heavy capabilities to source and enrich the right data to help our clients understand the value & impact of their partnerships and ultimately to optimize those partnerships to drive greater impact
- This includes managing data ingestion frameworks, segmentation infrastructure, and the tooling used by internal teams to deliver commercial outcomes at scale
- You'll work closely with external vendors, internal engineering and data teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to build secure, scalable, and highly performant systems that support the measurement, reporting & optimization of sports & entertainment partnerships
- This role is ideal for a technical product manager who thrives on solving backend data challenges, enjoys working at the intersection of engineering and platform architecture, and understands the role data can play in enabling downstream value
- You’ll collaborate closely with data engineers, scientists, analysts, and commercial leads to develop solutions that scale, solving real-world problems for teams, leagues, rights-holders and brands
- Own the product lifecycle for 1-2 product squads working on the Partnership Intelligence platform, focusing on sourcing, scalability, data quality, and downstream value enablement (e.g. segmentation, reporting)
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to identify key use cases, pain points, and automation opportunities across data workflows
- Shape the roadmap for core data capabilities, balancing data availability, data quality, and engineering complexity to drive commercial value
- Evolve SportGraph, our proprietary digital twin of the Sport & Entertainment ecosystem – focused on maintaining quality while expanding its reach with new and enriched data
- Expand our Omni-channel footprint to every touchpoint relevant to measuring and optimizing the impact of a partnership
- Improve our estimation, valuation and contextualization models
- Utilize AI in ways that help us move faster, smarter and more efficiently, while unlocking new value for our business and our clients
- Work with external partners (e.g. X, Meta, YouTube) to understand API specifications, access protocols, and integration constraints
- Write clear functional requirements, user stories, and technical acceptance criteria; contribute to backlog prioritization and sprint planning
- Lead and contribute to sprint ceremonies (e.g. refinement sessions, stand ups)
- Ensure data governance, compliance (e.g. GDPR/CCPA), and observability are baked into all products
- Ensure data quality & accuracy via development of monitoring systems
- Contribute to documentation, onboarding guides, and support workflows
- IN YOUR FIRST YEAR, YOU MAY HAVE…
- Delivered improvements to our ingestion and enrichment systems that enhanced the accuracy, quality and usefulness of our data
- Helped roll out a partnership scoring capability that became a core input into client marketing and reporting use cases
- Led the integration of 3 new data sources that gave our clients a view into partnership performance that was previously a blind spot
- Vastly increased the number of nodes and connections within SportGraph
Our take
Two Circles is a digital sports marketing agency that develops and executes marketing strategies for sports-based companies, supplying the means to maximise sponsorship rights fees, increase commercial performance, engage the right audiences, and use data to inform future strategy.
As well as delivering front-running marketing tech and services for the sports industry, the company also dedicates itself to improving diversity and inclusion in sports, including its "Diversity in Sports" mentoring program that aims to accelerate the growth of under-represented talent across the industry.
Two Circles works with more than 300 sports rights holders including the likes of the NFL, UEFA, F1, and the ICC as well as $1bn sponsorship revenues. A series of acquisitions have contributed to the expansion of the business - for example, that of Australia-based digital specialist Codeware, which came alongside the opening of a Melbourne office, has enabled it to grow its presence in the Oceania region and bolster its tech offering
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2024
$317.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $317.5m
Company benefits
- Renowned Team Days often throughout the year
- Discretionary Bonus based on company performance
- Performance Reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Gareth Balch
(Chief Executive)Previously worked in Commercial Strategy at Manchester City Football Club. Also a Former Director at Goodform.
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