About the Role
Hawk-Eye Innovations is seeking an experienced, highly autonomous Product Owner to take full ownership of a major product, platform, or technology across its complete lifecycle. This role involves shaping roadmaps, defining strategic OKRs, and managing complex stakeholder relationships within the elite global sports industry.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the definitive voice of the user, client, and business.
- Fully own the team backlog, defining epics, features, and user stories.
- Proactively handle complex dependencies and time-critical priorities to maximise ROI.
- Actively contribute to and shape the strategic roadmap and vision for our tracking portfolio.
- Research the market, track competitors, and perform deep user analysis to proactively propose improvements to system reliability, scalability, and UX.
- Champion your product as its primary global ambassador.
- Lead high-level technical and business discussions, align cross-functional engineering teams, and successfully navigate complex, ambiguous environments to keep deliveries on track.
- Collaborate with Development Leads, Solution Architects, and QA to enforce common architectural patterns.
- Ensure built-in quality at every stage to completely eliminate the cost of delays (CoDs) associated with rework or recalls.
- Define success metrics and monitor operational data to guide business decisions.
- Oversee 3rd-line support within your product scope.
- Guarantee that training, documentation, and testing 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 product lifecycle and leading short-range roadmap definition.
- Advanced stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to align diverse cross-functional engineering teams, product leads, and high-profile external clients.
- Strong technical grounding with concrete experience managing technically complex products and cloud-based data solutions.
- Strategic product execution experience, particularly in defining Minimum Marketable Features (MMFs), Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), and setting clear OKRs.
- Superb leadership and communication skills with a knack for removing product-related obstacles, conducting trade-off analyses, and keeping priorities visible.
- Experience working on high-performance products within a business-to-business (B2B) setting.
- Experience with real-time systems that combine cutting-edge software and hardware tracking infrastructure.
- Enthusiasm for occasional international travel to collaborate directly with sports federations and teams trackside.
Skills
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Roadmap Definition
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Grounding
- Cloud-based Data Solutions
- Strategic Product Execution
- MMF Definition
- MVP Definition
- OKR Setting
- Leadership
- Communication
- Trade-off Analysis
- B2B Product Experience
- Real-time Systems
- Software and Hardware Tracking Infrastructure
Location
- Basingstoke
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
- 5% matching enhanced pension scheme
- Complimentary Unmind app
- Onsite gym
- 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 trusted by leagues, federations, broadcasters, and fans worldwide.
- The Value Stream delivers tracking and automatic officiating services, including ball and object tracking systems and SkeleTRACK technology for Semi-Automated Offside Technology (SAOT) and electronic line-calling.
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.
