The Senior Sports Trader oversees trading operations, managing markets, and ensuring accuracy in sports betting products while collaborating with teams to enhance customer experience.
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The Crown Is Yours
We're seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Senior Sports Trader to join our dynamic Trading team. In this role, you will support day-to-day trading operations by managing markets, monitoring data feeds, settling bets, and ensuring real-time accuracy and responsiveness across sports betting products. You'll collaborate closely with senior traders, product teams, and external partners to ensure a best-in-class customer experience and help uphold risk management standards. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with strong analytical skills, a passion for sports, and an interest in building a career in the sports betting industry.
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
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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.
The Crown Is Yours
We're seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Senior Sports Trader to join our dynamic Trading team. In this role, you will support day-to-day trading operations by managing markets, monitoring data feeds, settling bets, and ensuring real-time accuracy and responsiveness across sports betting products. You'll collaborate closely with senior traders, product teams, and external partners to ensure a best-in-class customer experience and help uphold risk management standards. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with strong analytical skills, a passion for sports, and an interest in building a career in the sports betting industry.
What You'll Do
- Deliver personal KPIs and ensure performance is aligned with overall company targets.
- Investigate and propose ways to work more efficiently and implement new ideas.
- Assume full accountability for content management across all channels, ensuring alignment with commercial parameters.
- Execute the business strategy across compilation, price management, and in-play trading for relevant US Sports within a compliant framework.
- Liaise with other trading teams to ensure smooth cooperation of the day-to-day job.
- Ensure a strong understanding of and adherence to your compliance responsibilities.
What You'll Bring
- At least two years of experience in trading, operations, or sports analytics environment.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably with a mathematical focus, will be considered an asset.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a deep knowledge of and passion for sports betting.
- Knowledge of Microsoft applications and Excel, in particular, is required.
- Familiarity with data tools, scripting, automation platforms, or AI technologies is considered a strong asset.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate critical business information quickly and effectively.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English is required. Additional languages will be considered an asset.
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Join Our Team
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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