Head of Product

Flutter UK & Ireland; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports betting company based in Leeds is looking for a Head of Product to drive innovative strategies and lead a product team. You will collaborate with various departments and focus on enhancing user experiences. The ideal candidate has significant leadership experience and a knack for balancing innovation with commercial results, offering an engaging hybrid work environment with competitive benefits including unlimited holiday and a learning fund.

Benefits

£ / €1,000 learning fund

Twice-yearly bonus

Unlimited Holiday

Pension contribution scheme

Private healthcare

Access to thousands of Udemy courses

Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a leadership role managing a growth oriented product team.
• Experience in delivering multi-platform web and mobile applications.
• Excellent understanding of multivariant testing.

Responsibilities

• Forge collaborative relationships with product and tech teams.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement.
• Recruit top talent into the team.

Skills

Product sense

Communication

Analytical skills

Leadership

Adaptability

Job description

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Your team

The Discovery Tribe is part of the overall Sports Supertribe and is responsible for creating, intuitive, engaging and intelligent sportsbook experiences for our customers.

Reporting to the Director of Product - Discovery and Bet lifecycle you will work closely with peers in product, commercial, brand and tech to help define and deliver the product strategy, while also ensuring the team of Product Managers and Product Owners deliver superior, delightful, and engaging user experiences across all our product verticals.

What you’ll do

• Be at the forefront of forging collaborative relationships with distributed product and tech teams that work across multiple brands
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement in everything we do
• Ability to balance a need for innovation and the focus needed to deliver short term commercial results
• Over communicate on all decisions which may impact the team
• Recruit only top talent into the team
• Infuse hypothesis-driven and experimental ways of working to all strategic and tactical activities
• Build feedback loops into every level of product development to improve the flow of value
• Coaching and mentoring the team – guiding, supporting and line managing. Offer regular feedback; positively challenging thinking and approach
• Lead, empower and develop a product team who understand the use of data in pursuit of forming insights and beliefs, which in turn translate into clear hypotheses to achieve the best customer and business impact
• Lead, empower, and develop a product team by establishing and integrating product excellence into your operational approach and your team's practices
• Putting customer experience and safety at the center of everything you do

How you’ll do it

• A strong demonstratable product sense
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills, including the ability to present concepts clearly and persuasively to peers and senior executives
• Experience delivering multi-platform web and mobile applications
• 3+ years in a leadership role managing a growth oriented product team
• Have a strategic mindset, using insights and data to define direction that will set the pace for our industry and change the game for customers
• Evidence of leading teams that have delivered a positive ROI and / or innovative products using design thinking with a track record of consistently improving product KPI’s through iterative delivery
• Curiosity
• Ever questioning
• Lifelong learner
• Comfortable launching imperfect solutions and making tough decisions on priorities
• Excellent understanding and appreciation of multivariant testing

What’s on offer

• £ / €1,000 learning fund
• Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed!)
• Unlimited Holiday
• Pension contribution scheme
• Private healthcare
• Hybrid Working -
• Access to thousands of Udemy courses
• Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme

About Flutter UK & Ireland

Our division operates four of the most popular and trusted brands in the market: Sky Betting and Gaming, Tombola, Betfair and Paddy Power.

Together the Flutter UK&I brands offer market leading entertainment to millions of customers every single week! Over the last couple of decades, they have all ridden the wave of digital betting with industry firsts like ‘cash-out’, ‘Request a Bet’, betting exchanges and free to play games like Soccer Saturday Super 6.

Working here

Do you want to work somewhere extraordinary? From the people you spend your days with, to the ground‑breaking projects, no two days will be the same.

With a philosophy of ‘Together We Are More’ our 7,000+ colleagues come together to form an expert community across technology, product, commercial, data, infrastructure, marketing, and a myriad of subject areas.

We listen without judgement, encourage & support, and help build others up. Working at Flutter UK&I means you can be yourself, work how and where suits you best—and let your personality shine!

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.