Product Director, Sportsbook

Posted: 2026-08-07

As a Product Director, you will define and drive the strategy for a critical area of the sportsbook, ensuring it delivers exceptional customer value and measurable business impact.

- Partner with Product and Commercial leadership to understand the long-term business strategy and translate it into a compelling product vision and roadmap for your domain.

- Own and evolve a multi-year product strategy, balancing innovation, optimisation, scalability, operational excellence, and commercial impact.

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers, creating an environment where individuals are challenged, supported, and able to grow into the next stage of their careers.

- Build a high-performing product organisation by raising the quality of product thinking, encouraging ownership, and creating a culture of continuous learning and accountability.

- Prepare and deliver clear, structured executive presentations that communicate strategy, roadmap priorities, performance insights, and key trade-offs through compelling, data-driven narratives.

- Lead multiple product teams, providing strategic direction, clear prioritisation, and coaching to enable high-quality execution.

- Establish clear customer and business outcomes for your teams and create accountability through measurable results.

- Embed customer insight, experimentation, and analytics into product decisions, continually raising the bar for product craft across your organisation.

- Partner closely with Engineering leadership to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of high-traffic transactional systems.

- Work across Data, CRM, Commercial, Platform, Trading, and Operations teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives and align investments with enterprise priorities.

- Clearly communicate strategy, priorities, trade-offs, and risk to senior leadership, influencing decisions through structured thinking and sound product judgment.

- Build organisational capability through effective delegation, coaching, succession planning, and developing future product leaders.

- Proactively manage dependencies and sequencing across complex systems, ensuring alignment without compromising pace or delivery.

This role requires a strategic mindset, deep product expertise, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate confidently at both executive and execution levels. You'll be equally comfortable shaping long-term strategy, coaching leaders, and helping teams solve difficult product problems.

- 10+ years of experience in Product Management, ideally leading complex, high-scale, customer-facing digital products.

- Proven experience leading multiple Product Managers or Product Leaders, with a genuine passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams.

- Experience building healthy product organisations by raising product craft, improving ways of working, and creating an environment where great product managers can thrive.

- Demonstrated ownership of high-frequency, transactional customer experiences with measurable commercial impact.

- Strong commercial acumen and expertise in data-driven product development, experimentation, and customer insight.

- A structured, strategic thinker who can navigate complexity and make clear, high-quality trade-off decisions.

- Outstanding executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional leaders.

- Experience attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional product talent.

- Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on involvement when needed.

- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with significant scale and performance requirements.

- Experience in sports betting, gaming, fintech, ecommerce, or similarly complex digital platforms is preferred.

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Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

$163,000—$235,000 USD

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