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About the Role

Hawk-Eye Innovations is seeking an experienced and highly autonomous Product Owner to take full ownership of a major data product, platform, or analytics technology throughout its lifecycle. This role involves shaping roadmaps, defining strategic OKRs, and managing complex stakeholder relationships within the elite global sports industry. The ideal candidate will navigate data ambiguity, make high-impact decisions on platform architecture, and ensure data solutions meet high standards and strict customer SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the definitive voice of the data consumer, analyst, and business.
• Fully own the platform backlog, defining epics, features, and user stories.
• Proactively handle complex data pipeline dependencies and time-critical streaming priorities to maximize ROI.
• Actively contribute to and shape the strategic roadmap and vision for our data and insights portfolio.
• Research the market, track sports tech competitors, and perform deep user analysis to propose improvements to data processing reliability, database scalability, and API delivery.
• Champion your data product as its primary global ambassador.
• Lead high-level technical discussions on cloud infrastructure and business analytics.
• Align cross-functional data engineering teams.
• Successfully navigate complex, ambiguous environments to keep platform deliveries on track.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering Leads, Solution Architects, and QA to enforce robust architectural patterns.
• Ensure data integrity, validation, and built-in quality at every stage of the pipeline to eliminate the cost of delays associated with historical data corruptions or faulty real-time feeds.
• Define system performance metrics and monitor operational data latency to guide infrastructure decisions.
• Oversee 3rd-line support within your platform scope.
• Guarantee that data documentation, SDK testing, and ingestion pipelines are executed flawlessly ahead of rollout into BAU.

Requirements

• 2–3+ years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner.
• Demonstrated growing autonomy in managing all stages of the software or data product lifecycle.
• Experience leading short-range roadmap definition.
• Advanced stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to align diverse cross-functional engineering teams, data scientists, product leads, and high-profile external clients.
• Strong technical grounding with concrete experience managing technically complex products, cloud-based data solutions (e.g., AWS/GCP architecture), big data streaming, or REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Strategic product execution experience, particularly in defining Minimum Marketable Features (MMFs), Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), and setting clear data-driven OKRs.
• Superb leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to remove product-related obstacles.
• Ability to conduct data architecture trade-off analyses.
• Ability to keep development priorities visible.

Skills

• Product Ownership
• Backlog Management
• Roadmap Definition
• OKR Setting
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Ambiguity Navigation
• Platform Architecture Decision Making
• Data Pipeline Management
• Streaming Priorities
• ROI Maximization
• Market Research
• User Analysis
• Data Processing Reliability
• Database Scalability
• API Delivery
• Cloud Infrastructure Discussions
• Business Analytics
• Cross-functional Team Alignment
• Architectural Pattern Enforcement
• Data Integrity
• Data Validation
• System Performance Metrics
• Operational Data Latency Monitoring
• 3rd Line Support
• Data Documentation
• SDK Testing
• Ingestion Pipelines
• AWS/GCP Architecture
• Big Data Streaming
• REST/GraphQL APIs
• Minimum Marketable Features (MMFs)
• Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)
• Data-Driven OKRs
• Leadership
• Communication
• Data Architecture Trade-off Analysis

Location

• Basingstoke

Work Type

• Hybrid (2 days in the office per week)

Experience Level

• 2-3+ years

Benefits

• Annual Leave: 25 days plus 8 public holidays
• Enhanced Pension Scheme: 5% matching
• Flexible Working: Hybrid model
• Wellness: Complimentary Unmind app
• Onsite gym (Basingstoke)
• Access to sporting events and tickets
• Sony Group Company discounts

About the Company

• Hawk-Eye Innovations builds technology that powers critical moments in sport, including instant replays, broadcast augmentation, and officiating systems.
• Their technology is trusted by leagues, federations, broadcasters, and millions of fans worldwide.
• The Value Stream delivers core data platforms, aggregations, and advanced insights that transform live athletic metrics into sports intelligence.
• They work with sister companies Pulselive and Beyond Sports to ingest massive spatial data feeds and transform them into scalable data pipelines, predictive data science models, and fan-facing visualizations.
• Their work includes automated event classification and delivering high-performance APIs for broadcasters and coaching staff.

Equal Opportunity

• We’re committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace.
• Everyone is treated fairly, regardless of gender, race, religion, age, disability, or background.
• We want you to be your best and truest self here.