Team Lead - Sportsbook Trading

What are we building?
Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social casino company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.
Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us?
What’s the position?
The Team Lead - Sportsbook Trading will report to the Trading Manager and will lead, train, and guide a team of traders based in the US, with responsibility for price creation, price management, risk monitoring and communication and optimizing profitability. The Team Lead - Sportsbook Trading will ensure the team adheres to US regulatory and licensing requirements, internal policies, and industry best practices while achieving the business's financial objectives.
You will develop a strong command of our trading system architecture and how it interfaces with third-party suppliers. You may be required to deliver innovative, consistent, and bespoke pricing tailored to specific markets and demographics where required. You will bring deep knowledge of sports betting, odds compilation, and diverse trading strategies, along with hands-on experience in a sportsbook trading environment.
Team Leadership & Sport Ownership Model (Non US Core Sports)
The Team Lead - Sportsbook Trading (US) will have direct reports made up of Sport Owners within the Sports Ownership Model & Traders. They will ensure each Sport Owner performs to standard across the following areas and stepping in directly where coverage, escalation, or quality gaps arise:
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Trading & Risk Oversight: Ensure Sport Owners and traders are monitoring real-time exposure, identifying sharp action, setting appropriate limits, and protecting margin, with the Team Lead escalating and acting decisively during high-volume or live-event periods.
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Third-Party Feed & Product Optimization: Oversee how the team manages, assesses, and optimizes third-party odds and data feeds, resolving escalated feed issues and ensuring bespoke pricing is created where required.
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Competitive Benchmarking & Product Input: Review each Sport Owner's competitor benchmarking for pricing competitiveness, market uptime, and feature parity, and consolidate findings to shape roadmap priorities with product, quant, and trading management.
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Analytical Ability & Reporting: Ensure the team produces data-driven analysis identifying value leaks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities, and compile these into reporting for senior management.
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Mentorship & Team Contribution: Coach and develop junior and mid-level traders directly, and ensure Sport Owners are sharing best practice in bookmaking, modelling, and risk principles across the wider desk.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact between the team's Sport Owners and product, quant, technology, and operations partners, ensuring insights and requirements flow both ways.