Product Lead

Role Overview

• Develop product strategy for your area in line with Bede’s wider vision and goals
• Create and manage roadmap priorities across your product domain
• Work closely with technology teams and stakeholders to bring clarity to what needs to be delivered, in what order, and why
• Take ownership of the end-to-end journey for products and services within your area, ensuring features are considered properly and delivered with quality
• Use data, insight and market understanding to identify opportunities, measure success and inform product decisions
• Build strong relationships with operators and internal stakeholders to improve product capability, customer outcomes and commercial value
• Turn operator, customer and market insight into clear priorities, recommendations and product improvements
• Keep close to industry, competitor and regulatory developments relevant to your product area
• Support customer-facing product conversations, including feedback forums, demos and new opportunities where needed
• Contribute to backlog direction and prioritisation, working closely with Product Managers, Product Owners and technology teams
• Depending on level, support the development of others in the team through coaching, knowledge sharing and day-to-day product leadership
• Travel when needed for customer meetings, sales support and industry events

Requirements

• Strong product experience in a software, platform or digital product environment, ideally within online betting and gaming
• Good understanding of operator needs, customer journeys and the commercial context product decisions sit within
• Experience across the full product lifecycle, from concept and roadmap through to delivery and adoption
• Ability to shape product priorities, high-level requirements and clear product direction
• Strong product judgement, with the ability to use customer, operator and market insight to inform decisions
• Confidence working across technology, commercial and customer-facing stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills and experience using data to support decision-making
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to influence, align stakeholders and explain thinking well
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Depending on level, experience coaching, mentoring or supporting others within a product team would be valuable
• Willingness to travel when needed for client meetings, sales support and industry events

Benefits

Here at Bede, we offer a competitive salary and a strong benefits package, but what really matters to us is creating an environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to do their best work. We’re a people-centric business and we regularly review our benefits based on colleague feedback, so what we offer continues to reflect what matters most to our teams. ****Some of the benefits you can expect include:

• A friendly, flexible and trust-based approach to working
• 25 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays and usually a generous Christmas break
• Fully matched private pension scheme (up to 8%)
• Bupa private healthcare from day one, including cash plan benefits, dental and optical cover (covers all pre-existing conditions)
• Life assurance cover of 4x your annual salary
• Employee Assistance Programme (via Bupa), providing confidential support and practical advice whenever you might need it
• Access to Calm
• the #1 app for meditation and sleep
• Innovation and learning – space to develop skills, try new ideas and experiment, with an annual hackathon where some ideas make it into real work.
• A work-owned mobile phone or tablet of your choice, with the monthly contract covered by us
• A great office setup – free snacks and drinks every day, plus regular food vans from some of the best places in Newcastle
• Bede Bucks – exclusive colleague discounts and access to a wellbeing platform
• Lots of social events – both in and outside of working hours
• Referral programme – help us grow the team and receive a referral bonus of up to £3,000 (pre-tax, subject to scheme terms)
• Bede swag – including hoodies, t-shirts and our much-loved Bede socks
• Bede Holidays – extra discretionary days off through the year as a thank-you for the great work our teams do