Product Owner - Tooling

Product Owner – Tooling

Join Our Team at Hawk-Eye Innovations

Hi, I’m Dan Payne, Product Director here at Hawk-Eye Innovations, and I’m excited to invite you to join our team as a Product Owner. If you’re passionate about creating cutting-edge products that redefine sports technology, this role is for you.

What Your Day Will Look Like

As a Product Owner, you’ll play a key role in delivering exceptional products that delight users and support business goals. From defining roadmaps to collaborating with cross-functional teams, you’ll help ensure Hawk-Eye’s tools continue to lead the way in sports officiating and broadcast technology.

Each day, you will:

• Collaborate with users, clients, and stakeholders to analyse needs and translate them into product requirements

• Shape the product vision and roadmap, prioritising features and backlog items to guide Agile engineering teams

• Write detailed requirements and user acceptance criteria to ensure clarity and alignment

• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to maintain consistency across the product portfolio

• Ensure training, documentation, and testing are completed for seamless rollouts

• Monitor product performance and support troubleshooting to meet customer SLAs

• Research market trends and competitor activity to inform product strategy

• Act as an ambassador for your product, ensuring communication and alignment across teams

• Occasionally travel internationally to meet users and gather insights

We’re not chasing revenue here — we’re building time-saving, efficient tools that empower our operators, product and engineering teams. Reducing pain points and streamlining workflows. This is tech that gives back.

SMART Tooling Projects We Are Exploring This Year

• Replace SMARTDownloader with a next-gen delivery tool that’s more reliable, easier to manage, and makes our software rollouts seamless and frustration-free

• Revamp our 10-year-old SMARTConfigurator to improve system setup, letting users orchestrate hundreds of apps with ease and confidence

• Launch Test-Rig playout software to simulate real match-day scenarios, catching bugs before they catch us. Build a system that delivers high-fidelity testing and better operator training

• Expand Smart Executor to automate long, tedious checklists in kit builds and match prep

Tracking Tooling Projects We Are Exploring This Year

• Redesign our ScrubbingTool application for the new cloud-based tracking systems, allowing us to fix tracking data during live operations

• Develop new web-based front-end applications that bring our tracking data to life

• Design new workflows in our GitHub repositories to automate our manual branching systems

What We Value

At Hawk-Eye Innovations, we value a proactive approach to problem-solving, a deep understanding of user needs, and a commitment to collaboration. As a Product Owner, your ability to bridge technical and business objectives will be instrumental in delivering solutions that transform the sports technology industry.

Tech Stack and Skill Requirements

Must-Have Skills

• 2+ years in a Product role, managing the end-to-end product lifecycle

• Strong experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver complex products

• Proven ability to write detailed requirements and acceptance criteria

• Exceptional organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills

• Experience defining product roadmaps and aligning with business goals

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Familiarity with products that combine software and hardware

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and working in Scrum or Kanban environments

• Experience with cloud-based solutions or similar technologies

• Experience with the operational software tools that power the delivery of our products and services. Current examples include:

  • Scrubbing Tool

  • Ground Control

  • Alignment Tool

  • SMARTRemote

  • SMARTConfigurator

Rewards, Benefits, and Wellness

We offer a comprehensive package to support your growth and well-being, including:

• 25 days of annual leave plus 8 public holidays

• Enhanced pension scheme with 5% matching

• Complimentary Unmind app, onsite gym, and access to exclusive events

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you’re ready to take the lead in delivering innovative sports technology solutions, we’d love to have you on board. At Hawk-Eye Innovations, you’ll be part of a team revolutionising the way sports are experienced worldwide.

Apply today to join our journey.