We are seeking a hands-on product owner to support the Gracenote Sports product team in building, consolidating, and delivering our sports data and product ecosystem. In this role, you will work closely with the lead Product Manager to ensure development teams have well-defined backlogs, clear priorities, and a deep understanding of the "what" and "why" behind their work. Critically, you will also serve as the bridge between product strategy and engineering execution able to understand and communicate the "how" in both directions.
Gracenote Sports is at a pivotal point: unifying legacy platforms into a single, consolidated database and tooling ecosystem, while simultaneously designing a data model capable of representing the full diversity of global sports and competition formats and delivering that data through customer-facing products (Global Sports Data API, Global Sports Widgets).
This role will be instrumental in accelerating that transformation by embedding product ownership directly within engineering teams and ensuring day-to-day delivery stays aligned with the broader sports product roadmap.
The ideal candidate combines a genuine passion for sports with robust product ownership fundamentals someone who thrives in the detail of backlog management, ticket creation, grooming, and testing while maintaining sight of the bigger picture across platform, data pipelines, and frontend delivery products.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage backlogs for one or more engineering squads: translate PRDs and roadmap priorities into well-structured engineering tickets with clear acceptance criteria, and keep backlogs prioritized and ready for development.
- Conduct grooming and sprint planning sessions with engineering teams; ensure teams understand what they are building, why it matters, and how it fits the broader roadmap.
- Serve as a two-way translator between product and engineering: communicate product intent to developers, and explain technical appro