About this role
Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is seeking a highly motivated Risk Trader I to join our growing Trading team and help shape an engaging, customer-focused live betting experience. Reporting to a Trading Manager, you'll support a variety of trading activities including real-time market management, data analysis, and feature testing.
This role focuses on Live International Sports, including Tennis, Soccer, and European Basketball, and offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative, fast-paced, and sports-obsessed environment. A passion for customer experience and teamwork is essential to success in this position.
Responsibilities
- Monitor live sporting events and actively manage in-play betting markets and liabilities.
- Demonstrate expertise in identifying and responding to sharp customer behavior, ensuring market integrity and contributing to effective risk management strategies
- Conduct data analysis to model the probability of sporting outcomes and adjust pricing accordingly.
- Test and provide feedback on new sportsbook features, trading tools, and predictive models.
- Analyze market movements, betting behavior, and competitor offerings to ensure price accuracy and competitive positioning.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Commercial, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Operations to design a seamless and scalable betting experience.
- Drive customer-centric strategies by aligning trading decisions with user feedback, data insights, and entertainment value.
- Contribute to the continual enhancement of trading processes, tools, and market offerings.
- Support various teams within the Trading department as needed, with a team-first and proactive mindset.
- Operational Flexibility: Willingness to work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays. Occasional travel to events or other Fanatics offices may be required.
Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a Sports Trader in the sports betting industry.
- Strong knowledge and passion for sports, particularly in Tennis, Soccer, and European Basketball.
- Proficiency in interpreting data and translating it into real-time pricing and risk decisions.
- Comfortable working in high-pressure, fast-paced environments requiring rapid decision-making.
- Experience with sportsbook platform testing and trading model development is a plus.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with a team-oriented mindset.
- Analytical thinker with excellent problem-solving abilities and a desire to learn.
- Familiarity with betting markets, odds formats, and trading software tools.
Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.
Other facts
About Fanatics
The Topps Company, Inc. is the iconic, preeminent leader in physical and digital collectibles. Acquired by Fanatics Collectibles in January 2022, Topps is the company's cornerstone licensed trading card brand.
Founded in 1938, The Topps Company started in confections with "Topps Gum" (later introducing Bazooka Bubble Gum) and released its first trading card set in 1950. Today, the company produces trading cards and collectibles, custom cards, memorabilia, sticker album collections and more related to iconic and pop culture brands such as Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, Star Wars, Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League, World Wrestling Entertainment and Garbage Pail Kids. Fanatics Collectibles has also secured long-term, exclusive rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards for several additional sports properties, including NBA, NBPA and NFLPA, in the coming years.
Topps’ Digital Apps division produces, develops and operates mobile applications that give you access to an exclusive digital card collection at your fingertips that are sold via the Apple and Google app stores under the brand names BUNT, KICK, NHL SKATE, Star Wars Card Trader, The Walking Dead Universe Collect, WWE SLAM, Marvel Collect! and Disney Collect! https://play.toppsapps.com/.
Headquartered in New York City, Topps maintains offices in several countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, India and Brazil.
What you'll do
- The Trader I will monitor live sporting events and manage in-play betting markets while ensuring market integrity. They will also conduct data analysis to model sporting outcomes and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the betting experience.
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