Head of Software Technology
2 weeks ago
Job Description Footballco is the world's largest football content and media business. Our mission is to give fans more of the game by building football communities that entertain, inform, and inspire action. We are a team of over 300 people, in 16 countries around the world, working across both our own media brands such as GOAL, MUNDIAL, CALCIOMERCATO and KOOORA and working on partnerships with leading clubs, leagues and brands.
You will join Footballco (“FC”) to lead and enhance our product proposition and engineering prowess, across all our global publishing brands, GOAL, Kooora, CalcioMercato, SPOX, VoetbalZone, INDIVISA and MUNDIAL.
A group of passionate designers, UX specialists, developers, testers, product and project managers.
Your main challenge will be to continue to evolve our products (web/app), distribution platforms (GNews, ChatGPT, etc) and speed to market, in order to move the business beyond the success we’ve had to date. As the digital media world has moved beyond impressions and flash-in-pan social, we need to build franchises, better package our ad proposition, develop additional distribution platforms / revenue streams and drive efficiencies. We need to integrate our 5 different web publishing brands into one CMS, one UX template, one tech stack, as well as find new ways of leveraging AI and it’s multitude of applications
You will be given room to reimagine our product & engineering management team, giving you runway to drive change at pace and taking into account that most of your organisation is based in Leeds (Product), Katowice (Product/Engineering), as well as smaller development pods in Italy, Germany and Middle East.
Take our product (web/app) to a new level on GOAL, focusing on building a world-class, global publishing franchise
Continue to integrate our Local Champion brands - VoetbalZone, Spox, CalcioMercato and Kooora - into THE FC tech stack
Move our product design and UX practice forward, putting more rigour into what makes a best-in-class UX
Implement a tighter and faster process to ship product changes, reducing our time-to-market and putting us ahead of competition and industry shifts
Considering all options and including relocation if necessary
Reimage our content production workflow/platforms, in order to improve margin and integrate existing platforms like social, as well as new ones like ChatGPT
Supported by content, sales strategy and creative teams, drive better packaging of our brands, formats and platforms - from MUNDIAL, to GOAL (web/app), to INDIVISA
Continue to drive our revenue diversification beyond standard media / branded content, by pushing affiliate/betting and subscription further and developing new ways of monetizing our video, audio, text and scores content
Oversee Product and Engineering P&L and Long Term Model (“LTM”)
As part of FC’s Senior Leadership Team, drive overall business strategy and direction, while participating in shareholder pacing calls and board meetings
Product and technology roadmap, taking into account immediate needs and long term opportunities
Imagine new delivery model (engineering org structure), taking into account our need to speed up delivery across all the areas described in the previous section
Content creation & distribution platform strategy across text, video, audio and scores, spanning 6 web/app brands reaching ~80M UVs and dozens of social handles/brands delivering .75-1bn video views per month. All published in 18 languages, targeting 9 Key Markets (UK, FR, ES, DE, IT, NL, GCC, US, JP), plus 5 Growth Markets (ID, BR, MX, KR, Africa)
M&A integration planning and execution at product & engineering levels
Built or scaled a digital media/tech product or content platform, not necessarily in sports
Strong understanding of the global digital media landscape, including what it means to operate a multi-market, multi-language, multicultural organization
Tech and development chops in order to challenge our existing dev teams and their speed to market
Led the positioning and packing of an ad-funded proposition, with its local-market nuances
Experience in embracing new technologies, ideally having hands-on experience on GenAI implementations
Understanding of the football industry and in particular local trends in FC’s Key Markets
Experience in digital publishing revenue transformation. From ad funded to affiliate, subscription, commerce, as well as other content syndication
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.
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