Technical Advisor

Summary

Join PENN Entertainment's Office of the CTO as a Technical Advisor and contribute to the company's cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. You will work closely with the CTO and senior leadership, conducting research, synthesizing insights, and driving initiatives across the interactive group. This role requires strong collaboration, communication, and a proven ability to navigate large organizations. You will leverage your deep technical expertise to influence technical prioritization, understand industry trends, and produce recommendations for the CTO. PENN Entertainment offers a competitive compensation package, a relaxed work environment, and opportunities for career progression.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in research, engineering and product development
• 15+ years of Technical Program Management and/or Software Engineering experience
• Experience building software for customers, using bleeding-edge technologies
• Proven ability to navigate large organizations and to influence/inspire peers in engineering and product development
• Thorough understanding of cloud computing, cloud data center design, and distributed solution needs in high scale scenarios
• Demonstrated ability to work through biases and preconceived notions through systemic, disciplined research and investigations
• Able to pursue breakthrough thinking by assessing established and emerging thought leadership
• Strong communication style that conveys expertise, clarity, and confidence

Responsibilities

• Conduct research to synthesize key opportunities, issues, and progress to date
• Generate briefs that synthesize shared and divergent points of view and positions
• Drive projects that require collaboration from multiple teams across the interactive division while sharing a common strategic vision
• Help teams evolve their understanding of a new Penn Interactive culture of engineering, in partnership with engineering leadership
• Produce reading material for the CTO and senior engineering leaders with summations, highlighted focus areas for deep processing, and prioritized order of consuming these reading materials
• Engage with CTO on iterative investigations and prototyping as needed
• Drill down into technical areas based on the CTO’s request and personal sense of company priorities/market trends
• Create and maintain iterative mini-brainstorms to ensure alignment with CTO thought leadership and just-in-time fluidity of investigation efforts
• Produce a range of recommendations to the CTO based on research

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related Engineering fields
• Experience as a manager of an engineering and/or Product Management team
• Proven customer facing experience - Startup experience considered an asset
• Able to build bridges and assist the CTO with developing relationships with external industry and academic thought leaders; develop and maintain own relationships
• Track record of speaking externally

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements
• Parental leave top-up
• Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others