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They work closely with the development lead and senior stakeholders across Integration, Platform and Compliance, escalating decisions that sit above their level of authority.\nThis is an entry-level to early-career product role (typically 1-3 years' relevant experience), suited to someone building a product management career or moving in from an adjacent role such as technical coordination, business analysis, or technical services management (TSM). The role owns product definition, requirements and standards within its domain; it does not carry authority over company-wide product strategy, engineering delivery, or compliance decisions, which sit with more senior roles.\nResponsibilities\n1. Requirements, Specifications & Delivery Standards\nDefine and own product scope, features and performance standards for operator-facing integration systems and tools, escalating decisions that sit above this role's authority to senior Integration stakeholders.\nPrepare product specifications, functional requirements, acceptance criteria and success metrics that give the development lead clear direction to build against, and hold the bar on outcomes delivered against those specifications - following through to confirm what is built meets the defined standard, not simply handing off and stepping back.\nShape operator portal product direction with well-reasoned recommendations, escalating direction-setting decisions that sit above this role's authority to senior product or pillar leadership.\n2. Compliance & Regulatory Input\nSupport the identification of compliance and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions relevant to integration products, working with Compliance to ensure requirements are correctly reflected in specifications.\nRefer compliance interpretation or judgement calls to the appropriate compliance authority; this role is not the compliance decision-maker.\n3. Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement\nMonitor the performance of operator-facing integration systems against defined standards, identifying gaps and driving improvements to close them.\n4. Roadmap Ownership\nMaintain a clear, prioritised roadmap for operator-facing integration systems and tools, and keep stakeholders aligned on direction.\n5. Cross-Functional Coordination\nDrive alignment across Integration, Platform and Compliance teams on defined requirements and open questions, including situations where ownership is shared or contested, escalating to senior stakeholders only where conflicts cannot be resolved at this level.\nAct as a day-to-day point of contact for requirements queries from the development lead and adjacent teams.\n6. Operator Requirements & Feedback\nActively surface operator requirements, validate priorities directly with operators, and communicate product decisions back to them.\nContribute to lightweight business cases and product recommendations to support prioritisation decisions, under guidance from senior stakeholders.\nWhat This Role Does Not Own\nEngineering delivery or sprint management - this sits with the development lead, though this role holds the bar on outcomes delivered against agreed specifications.\nRegulatory compliance decisions - this role defines requirements against compliance obligations but is not the compliance authority.\nPlatform-level infrastructure decisions upstream of the integration layer.\nCompany-wide product strategy or portfolio decisions beyond the integration domain - recommendations on matters above this role's authority are made for senior sign-off.\nQualifications\nEssential:\nAround 1-3 years' experience in a product, technical coordination, business analysis, or TSM-adjacent role.\nDeveloping skills in requirements definition and functional specification writing.\nGood analytical skills, with the ability to interpret operator and stakeholder feedback.\nClear written and verbal communication, with the ability to work across functional boundaries.\nFamiliarity with Agile ways of working.\nProactive mindset with a sense of ownership over own workstreams.\nDesirable:\nExposure to iGaming, land-based casino, sportsbook, bingo or a related gaming environment.\nFamiliarity with regulatory or compliance considerations in a multi-jurisdictional product context.\nExperience preparing materials for senior stakeholders.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4504,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-12T07:58:09Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/games-global-associate-product-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/games-global-associate-product-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T15:19:14Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23370,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1930947},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1930947"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgames-global-associate-product-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgames-global-associate-product-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgames-global-associate-product-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/games-global-associate-product-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgames-global-associate-product-manager"}]}