Product Owner - iGaming Startup | High Ownership Role in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This is a high-ownership, low-bureaucracy product role at an early-stage iGaming startup. Duel's language — "no layers, no nonsense," "burn the old playbook" — signals a lean team where the Product Owner has real decision-making authority over the backlog rather than serving as a go-between for stakeholders.
Career development value: Working across casino, sportsbook, and games simultaneously is broad scope that accelerates T-shaped product skills. The gambling/gaming industry is highly technical (real-time odds, compliance, payment flows), and experience here is portable to fintech, sports tech, and regulated industries globally.
Market positioning: iGaming Product Owners with 3+ years typically command €60,000–€100,000+ annually in European markets, and higher for fully remote roles. Without salary transparency here, candidates should negotiate firmly — especially given the broad platform scope.
Green flags:
- Direct collaboration with engineering and design — great for POs who want to stay close to the craft
- Remote-first, distributed team culture already established
- Mission-driven framing around fairness and transparency (rare in gambling)
Red flags / things to probe:
- No salary range disclosed — push for clarity before deep interviews
- No mention of benefits, PTO policy, or team size — ask about these in screening
- "Startup intensity" language could mask unclear work-life boundaries — clarify sprint cadence and expectations upfront
Headquarters: Malta
Duel is a protest against everything wrong in gambling. The purest, fairest casino ever built. The Vatican of gamba. We're waging war on scammers, fake bets, and dark patterns — and we need a Product Owner who wants to burn the old playbook down.
The Role
You own the product backlog across casino, sportsbook, and games. You translate vision into stories, stories into shipped features, and shipped features into better player experiences. You work directly with engineering and design — no layers, no bureaucracy, no nonsense.
If you want to build the same casino everyone else has built, move on.
What You'll Do
- Own and prioritise the backlog across all platforms
- Turn product vision into clear user stories and tasks
- Monitor player engagement and performance — find what's broken, fix it, find what's missing, build it
- Gather and define requirements with stakeholders, functional and non-functional
- Drive growth through ideas that are actually different
What You'll Need
- 3+ years in a product ownership or management role
- Gambling or gaming industry experience preferred
- Comfortable working with both technical and commercial teams
- Experience with distributed, remote-first development teams
- Clear communicator, strong prioritisation instincts, ownership mindset
Come build something pure.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/duel-com-product-owner
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