Jobs at Sporty Group

Owns South African People Operations, including employee lifecycle management, payroll, HR compliance, employee relations, performance processes, HR reporting, engagement initiatives, and HRIS records. Partners with managers and senior leaders on people strategy and provides cross-geography HR support. Also manages Cape Town office operations, vendors, workplace services, health and safety, and continuous improvement of scalable People processes.

Define product strategy, roadmap, backlog, and OKRs for digital products serving global users. Lead customer research, competitive analysis, experimentation, requirements gathering, prioritization, release readiness, go-to-market collaboration, and product performance measurement. Partner closely with engineering, design, marketing, and delivery teams while coordinating dependencies and mentoring team members in a remote environment.

Supports multi-country accounting operations, including accounts payable and receivable, payment processing, collections, reconciliations, account aging analysis, documentation, billing queries, compliance coordination, and month-end close. Maintains Excel and ERP records, contributes to financial reporting, and helps improve accounting procedures, controls, and automation initiatives while developing independent responsibilities.

Administer and improve EDR and SIEM platforms, tuning detection rules, correlation logic, endpoint policies, alerts, dashboards, and integrations. Maintain log collection, agent health, platform availability, and security visibility across endpoints, servers, cloud, and network systems. Support investigations, onboard new systems, convert security findings into monitoring improvements, track detection coverage, and produce documentation and runbooks.

Define and own product strategy and roadmap, use user research and data to prioritize a backlog, collaborate with engineering and design to deliver features, ensure business readiness and go-to-market alignment, track product metrics, and mentor team members.

Lead analytics to improve player experience, engagement, retention, and monetization. Analyze player lifecycle, run cohort and funnel analyses, design and evaluate A/B tests, build dashboards, define product metrics, investigate KPI changes, and partner with product, marketing, engineering, and data teams to deliver data-driven recommendations and improve data quality.

Support end-to-end payment operations across Mexico including deposits, withdrawals, refunds, reconciliations, and customer queries. Monitor transactions for fraud, collaborate with banks and PSPs to resolve issues, analyze payment trends, document SOPs, support integrations and testing of payment technologies, and ensure regulatory and policy compliance while minimizing customer impact during incidents.

Owner of offensive security testing and continuous perimeter monitoring across external domains, IPs, DNS, VPS, and office infrastructure. Conduct adversary emulation against endpoints/EDR/XDR, scoped web/API tests, and document exploitation chains. Translate findings into defensive controls, support Purple Teaming, and improve asset tracking and remediation metrics.

Lead and own global payments operations, metrics, fraud prevention, risk and compliance. Collaborate with product and engineering, recruit and manage distributed payments teams, investigate fraud, optimise acceptance and conversion, and act as primary partner with payment networks to resolve production issues.

Build and productionize ML systems for personalization, search, and recommendations. Apply statistical and ML models using Python and SQL, collaborate with stakeholders, and measure business impact across cloud environments.

Manage and optimize sporty games lobbies across LATAM (focus Brazil and Mexico): position games, run promotions, configure settings, coordinate releases with suppliers and internal teams, ensure localisation and regulatory compliance, monitor performance and report insights, and resolve operational escalations.

Lead regional performance marketing strategy across African markets, set vision and investment allocation, oversee paid acquisition and media channels, align cross-functional priorities, drive market intelligence and data-driven insights, and advise executive leadership to scale growth.

Open-call for candidates interested in Sporty: join a remote-first, fast-paced company building sports and gaming products. Submit your profile indicating preferred teams (Engineering, Product, Data, Trading, Operations, Support, Marketing, Finance, People, BD, Risk) and be matched to future openings.

Support execution of global communications strategy, manage PR agencies and media relations, draft press materials and executive communications, coordinate media outreach and events, monitor coverage, support crisis communications, and manage corporate social media and executive thought leadership.

Own and improve large-scale, highly available database architectures across regions. Automate operations with Go/Python, handle performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery, security audits, monitoring (SLO-based alerting), schema changes, data migrations, and collaborate with dev teams on optimization and troubleshooting.

Develop mobile-first, responsive Vue.js frontends focused on performance and UX. Build frontend management systems, participate in code reviews and team ceremonies, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with backend teams.

Own QA for web and mobile releases: write and run manual and automated tests (web, mobile, API), build test frameworks, improve CI, track issues, mentor teammates, and influence requirements and quality processes.

Support planning and executing South Africa-focused retention campaigns and promotions. Monitor retention, reactivation, and ROI metrics, prepare reports, coordinate with product, analytics, and external partners, ensure timely regional offers, and support personalization and automation initiatives.

Produce high-quality broadcast and digital video content—promos, highlights, social clips—using Premiere and After Effects. Work fast under live sports schedules, maintain brand consistency, manage files/versioning, and collaborate with Programming, Marketing and Social teams.

Lead global paid user acquisition strategy and a multi-channel team across mobile, paid social, search and programmatic. Drive efficient growth through experimentation, attribution, automation and AI adoption, partnering with product, BI, creative and finance to scale campaigns, measurement and operations.