The Crown Is Yours
As a Team Lead, Sports Trading, you'll help shape our sportsbook by overseeing day-to-day operations for international markets. You'll lead a team of traders focused on live pricing accuracy, player props, and uptime across key sports like Tennis, Basketball, and Table Tennis. In this role, you'll guide team development, contribute to trading strategy, and ensure our betting product remains sharp, engaging, and data-driven.
What you'll do as a Team Lead, Sports Trading
- Oversee team scheduling and shift planning to ensure consistent trading coverage aligned with global sports calendars.
- Deliver onboarding and ongoing training for new and current traders, reinforcing catalogue expertise and operational excellence.
- Monitor live markets, manage in-play pricing, and escalate real-time betting anomalies when necessary.
- Analyze and present trading performance and market insights to leadership and stakeholders.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture, supporting continuous development and mentorship.
- Identify and resolve inefficiencies in trading processes, and propose enhancements to drive innovation and precision.
- Ensure third-party data and feed integrity, supporting uptime and accurate decision-making.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Analytics, and Engineering to support live betting content and strategy.
What you'll bring
- At least 2 years of sports trading experience, with strong focus on Tennis, Soccer, or Basketball preferred.
- Prior experience mentoring or managing team members in a trading or operations setting.
- Excellent communication, decision-making, and organizational skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with attention to real-time performance metrics.
- Familiarity with tools like Excel; scripting or automation experience is a plus.
- Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays based on the sports calendar.
- Fluent in English.
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We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
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It's simple, at DraftKings, we believe life is more fun when you're in on the action. For that reason, we’re committed to responsibly creating the world’s favorite games and betting experiences. We’re developing the most innovative and entertaining real money products and offers; to forever transform how people experience sports; to be a fully vertically integrated sports betting operator. It's our ultimate goal to build the best, most trusted, and most customer-centric destination for our players. We’re defining what it means to build and deliver the most extraordinary sports and entertainment experiences. Our global team is trailblazing new markets, developing cutting-edge products, and shaping the future of responsible gaming.
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