Product Lead

Bede Gaming

Product Lead shaping product direction across Bede’s platform in the fast-moving online betting and gaming market. Collaborating with teams to prioritize product development and ensure quality delivery.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeNewcastle upon Tyne • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

product strategyroadmap managementdata analysisproduct lifecycle managementproduct prioritizationcustomer journey mappingmarket insightproduct judgementanalytical skillscoaching

Soft Skills

communicationinfluencingstakeholder alignmentmulti-priority managementleadershiprelationship buildingcustomer-facing skillsmentoringclarity in decision-makingadaptability