Location
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear | United Kingdom
Job description
Embark on a Leadership Odyssey with tombola!
Are you brimming with visionary product strategies and possess the finesse to sculpt the future of online gaming? Tombola, the mastermind behind the curtain, invites an exceptional Head of Product to the helm to plot our chart to unchartered territories. It's more than a role; it's the chance to embroider your signature on the tapestry of gaming innovation.
Find your bounce at tombola!
It’s not just our digital bingo balls that have loads of bounce. Our people do, too. Whatever your role, it’s the kind of place that can put a spring in your step.
Whether you're developing game mechanics, keeping our players safe, testing our products or sponsoring one of the UK's biggest TV shows, how high and how far you bounce really is up to you.
The bounce isn't just for our bingo balls – it's in the DNA of our Team Leaders. In the role of Head of Product, you'll be the cornerstone that supports, guides, and propels our product innovation to vertexes yet to be seen. Embed your zeal into every facet of our product journey, from storyboard to standing ovation.
What's on the Table? ️
We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing!
As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more.
You can find out more about our benefits and what it's like to work for us here .
Sounds great! What will I be doing?
As the Head of Product, you will be the driving force behind our product strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals, and leading the development of world-class online gambling products. This role demands a strategic thinker with a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences.
Collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders will be essential to inform decision-making and build roadmaps. Taking an insight-led approach, with data and customer research driving decision making, will ensure that the roadmaps are optimised to achieve the business goals and drive business performance.
What will I be doing? (But in bullet points)
- Product Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy and roadmaps aligned with tombola’s objectives, including the strategic launch of a white label solution for expanded market reach.
- Team Leadership: Lead and inspire a cross-functional product team across two critical product areas, - Player Experience and Platform Engineering, under our Durable Teams model, ensuring sustained collaboration with stakeholders and excellence in delivering high-quality products.
- Roadmaps: Establish and maintain clear rolling roadmaps that prioritise features and functionalities based on user needs, data and insights, strong commercial rationale. market demands and business goals.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders, including marketing, technology, Strategy & Insights and regulatory compliance teams, making collaboration a cornerstone for successful prioritisation, product launches and ongoing success.
- User-Centric Focus: While not directly accountable for UX, ensure a user-centric focus across the product development lifecycle and collaborate closely with UX specialists to deliver seamless and engaging user experiences.
- Compliance: Stay informed and ensure adherence to relevant gambling regulations and compliance standards across the markets that tombola operates in.
- Market Analysis: Stay abreast of industry trends, competitor activities and wider innovations to identify opportunities for product enhancements and market expansion.
- Senior Management Team: A member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), contributing to broader business initiatives and helping drive the overall success of the organisation.
What does "good" look like for us?
Knowledge and Experience
- Proven experience Product Management experience in a senior product management role
- Strong understanding of technology and its application to enhance user experiences in the online entertainment / gambling sector
- Demonstrated success in leading and developing high-performing product teams.
Personal Qualities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Demonstrate high degree of empathy and emotional intelligence.
- Highly motivated with a “can do” attitude and the ability to use own initiative.
- Have a “down to earth” working style.
- Good attention to detail and the ability to prioritise effectively.
- Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Spirit of fun and engagement.
Job tags
Salary
