Data – Head of Product

The Wow

Betsson Group's mission is to put customers at the heart of our business through unrivalled customer experiences. Data is a foundational enabler for everything that we do, and AI is an accelerator for excellence. In this key role you will play a crucial part in achieving our mission. You will be responsible for ensuring that our data roadmap enables our commercial and product teams.  Your primary stakeholders include commercial business owners and product teams. Your will work in partnership with data engineering teams and in close alignment with our AI, Machine Learning, Data Science and Architecture teams.

This role reports into the Director of Product and has a close relationship with our Director of Data & AI.

A taster of what you will be involved with: 

• Prioritising Data and AI product roadmap to deliver business value, technical excellence and operational efficiencies.
• Contributing to Data and AI vision, and championing this with stakeholders and the engineering teams.
• Prioritising Data and AI product roadmap to deliver business value, technical excellence and operational efficiencies.
• Ensuring the product development backlogs are in place for the data engineering teams and that they are kept up to date.
• Initiating, driving and being accountable for key strategic initiatives.
• Representing and evangelising the Data and AI capabilities across Betsson group. Helping onboard internal users to new products as they are developed.
• Working closely with other product leaders across multiple projects and initiatives.
• Building effective working relationships across the wider organisation, serving as the main point of contact from a product perspective for the Data & AI teams.
• Facilitating a transparent decision-making process to ensure our roadmaps are value driven.
• Analysing feedback from Data and AI users to determine continuous improvement of our products and ways of working.
• Being an active member of Betsson’s product and Data & AI teams contributing to continuous organisational improvements.
• Traveling occasionally to meet team members in various offices.

What we are looking for: 

• Being a Data expert with experience working in Data or AI in previous roles.
• Being product focussed, having a good understanding of what our customers expect from our products and how to improve them continuously.
• Curating product strategies that result in value driven actionable product roadmaps.
• Researching emerging technologies and market trends that influence Data and AI, and able into product plans.
• Communicating and negotiating with stakeholders from various disciplines and backgrounds.
• Being organised and able to manage, understand, develop and prioritise multiple requests.
• Analysing multiple inputs and able to prioritise work based on value.
• Shipping products and functionalities by partnering with engineers, data scientist and architects.
• Leadership and coaching having strong skills to support career development and enable high-performing teams.
• Experience with Agile based methodologies. 
• Working in a fast-paced industry, with an expectation of adaptability.

Would be great if you have: 

• Bachelor’s Degree, training or relevant on the job experience.
• 5+ years in product roles with at least 2 leading product teams.
• 5+ years working with Data and/or AI.
• It would be great if you have experience of working in the iGaming industry or other digital first, fast paced, customer-focused industry.

What we offer

Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.

Challenge Accepted? 

If you are interested to learn more, please apply with your CV in English.

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