Smarkets
Associate Product Manager
1mo ago
EuropeJuniorRemote
Associate Product Manager at Smarkets focused on building prediction market products that customers love and drive commercial growth.
Responsibilities
- You will work hand-in-hand with the Product and Engineering Managers for our customer-facing applications (SBK & Smarkets), acting as their operational backbone. This is an accelerated opportunity for systematic thinkers to master the product life cycle and grow into a full Product Manager role. Your core mission is to drive product delivery and user insight by:
- Supporting the Lead PM across discovery, prioritisation, and delivery.
- Owning the QA and release processes across our two customer-facing brands.
- Leading the user-research programme to keep our roadmap laser-focused on customer value.
- Roadmap & Execution: Coordinate agile rituals, manage the product backlog, maintain stakeholder alignment, and unblock execution for the Lead PM.
- Product Discovery & User Research: Own the user research process; schedule and run interviews, craft surveys, and synthesize findings into actionable customer insights.
- QA & Releases: Manage the end-to-end QA and release cycle (Smarkets and SBK), including test planning, App Store/Play Store submissions, post-release monitoring, and bug triage.
- Process Optimisation: Translate vague problem statements into clear user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring readiness before sprint kick-offs.
- Data Analysis: Analyze feature usage, sign-up funnels, and in-app behaviour to influence roadmap priorities.
- Market Intelligence: Conduct competitive tear-downs of betting, fintech, and gaming apps to spot improvements.
- Launch Support: Draft release notes, update help-centre articles, and brief Customer Support and Marketing teams.
Requirements
- Systematic Thinker: Highly process-oriented; a background in business analysis, operations, or a similar analytical discipline is highly desirable.
- Tech-Savvy: Instinctively explores new apps and can articulate their delights and frustrations.
- Analytical & First-Principles Driven: Comfortable slicing data while able to zoom out to the broader user journey.
- High EQ Communicator: Adapts communication style seamlessly for engineers, designers, traders, and executives.
- Trend Spotter: Keeps up with product, sports-tech, and fintech news.
- Nice-to-have: Exposure to sports trading products, mobile gaming, brokerage, or any highly regulated consumer product.
Other
- Smarkets runs one of the world’s most sophisticated prediction markets, handling over £29 billion in volume since 2010 and engaging 200,000+ traders globally. We’re a technology company that happens to revolutionise betting - from sports to political markets, to delivering the sharpest prices and the fairest odds.
- At the heart of our success are our people. We create a high-performance environment where exceptional talent can thrive, blending deep business experience with a commercial mindset to drive strategic growth.
- If you’re ready to help shape the future of prediction markets with cutting-edge technology and a customer-first philosophy, Smarkets is where you belong.
- The Product Team is responsible for making sure Smarkets builds products that customers love and that move the commercial needle. Smarkets operates two products - SBK, a retail sports betting app, and the Smarkets Exchange, a peer-to-peer trading app - across multiple jurisdictions and licences, with an expanding footprint in US prediction markets. This puts product at the intersection of customer experience, trading, regulation and commercial strategy.
- Product Discovery & Strategy: Identifying the highest-impact opportunities across acquisition, activation, retention and monetisation, and turning them into a clear, sequenced roadmap.
- Product Delivery & Execution: Working day-to-day with engineering and design to ship high-quality features quickly, with well-defined scope, owned contracts and a clear definition of done.
- Product Analytics & Experimentation: Measuring everything — funnels, cohorts, ARPU, retention - and using data and experiments to decide what to build next and whether it worked.
- In a typical week, a Product Manager at Smarkets will:
- Ship a customer-facing feature end-to-end, from spec and design review to release and post-launch analysis.
- Dig into Lightdash and SQL to understand a funnel drop-off, cohort trend or revenue driver, and turn the finding into a decision.
- Work with trading, compliance and commercial teams to ensure new products are viable across our regulatory environments.
- Our values are at the heart of everything we do - guiding how we work, collaborate, and innovate. They reflect what we expect of ourselves and each other to deliver the best results, while fostering a positive, high-performing environment:
- Push to Win: We set ambitious goals and relentlessly pursue them, always striving for excellence.
- Make Others Better: We lift each other up, share knowledge, and celebrate team success over individual achievement.
- Give a Shit: We care deeply about our work, our users, and the impact we make.
- Be a Pro: We take ownership, act with integrity, and consistently deliver to a high standard.
- Bring the Energy: We bring positivity, curiosity, and enthusiasm to everything we do, inspiring those around us.
- Culture Fit: These values define how we succeed as a team. If this isn’t you, this may not be the right place. We hire people who thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and ambitious environment.
- Perks & Benefits We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, alongside a dynamic, collaborative environment where your work truly makes an impact and your voice is heard. Our team is diverse, driven, and ambitious - united by a strong work ethic and a hunger to innovate and win.
- Our benefits are designed around Health, Wealth,and Development, supporting you both professionally and personally.
- These include:
- Stock Options: Vest over 4 years - your success is our success.
- Pension Scheme: Competitive plan via Aviva, with up to 6% matched contributions if you opt in.
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to keep you and your family healthy.
- Enhanced Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity and paternity leave to support you through life’s most important moments.
- Stay Fuelled: Enjoy fresh, chef-made breakfast and lunch every day, plus a constant supply of fruit, snacks, tea, coffee and soft drinks — because great work starts with great food.
- Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Support for sustainable commuting and staying active.
- Learning & Development: £1,000 annual education budget for courses, conferences, books, or training.
- Holiday: 25 days paid leave + bank holidays, with the option to carry over 5 days.
- Flexible Working: Choose to work 1 day from home (20 WFA days/year) or 2 days from home (5 WFA days/year) based on your needs and preferences.
- Team Energy: Regular socials, hackathons, and events — because collaboration and fun go hand-in-hand.
- We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around.
- CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible
- Let’s chat - Quick chat with our team about your experience and the role
- Competency Interview - Virtual with Hiring Manager
- In-Office Interview - Lunch with other colleagues in the team
- We’re an equal opportunities employer and celebrate diversity in all its forms. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know — we’re happy to accommodate your needs.