Technical Product Manager, Two Circles
Data-driven sports marketing
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Data-driven sports marketing
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To use data to grow the value of sports.
Role
Who you are
- 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 integrations play in enabling downstream value
- 3–5 years in product management, with a focus on data platform, data products, or internal tools
- 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
- Familiar with data quality and monitoring practices, data observability, schema standardization, and documentation workflows
- Comfortable in agile, cross-functional environments; proactive communicator and problem solver
- Bonus: experience with vendor integrations or managing third-party data pipelines (e.g. Ticketmaster, CRM tools)
- Double Bonus: experience working in the sports and entertainment industry or with first party customer data
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to work on the KORE Intelligence platform
- You'll be joining a team responsible for a core suite of data products that transforms fragmented fan data into meaningful, actionable insights
- You’ll take ownership of backend-heavy capabilities that allow our clients to unify, understand, and activate their audience data
- 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 to build secure, scalable, and highly performant systems that support campaigns, personalization, reporting, and partner value creation across sport
- You’ll collaborate closely with data engineers, scientists, analysts, and commercial leads to develop solutions that scale, solving real-world problems for teams, leagues, and rights-holders
- Own the product lifecycle for 1-2 product squads working on the Audience Intelligence platform, focusing on 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
- Collaborate with engineers to develop schema definitions and define scalable, reusable schemas ETL processes, field mappings, source validation, and observability tools
- Work with external partners (e.g. Ticketmaster, Salesforce, SSO providers) 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. running refinement sessions and stand ups)
- Ensure data governance, compliance (e.g. GDPR/CCPA), and observability are baked into all products
- Track product usage, drive continuous improvement, and enable self-serve adoption through documentation and internal enablement
- Contribute to documentation, onboarding guides, and support workflows
- In Your First Year, You May Have:
- Delivered improvements to our ingestion and transformation systems that enhanced the reliability and reusability of audience data across client workstreams
- Helped roll out a new segmentation or audience scoring capability that became a core input into client marketing and reporting use cases
- Introduced better internal tooling or automation that accelerated the speed of client onboarding or data validation
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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