Commercial Product Lead – Sports
Our Take
Commercial Product Lead for Raketech driving sports affiliate product growth and P&L across multiple markets.
What you’ll do
- Own the vision, strategy and roadmap for allocated products
- Use continuous product discovery and user, market and business insights
- Keep up with competitors to find differentiation angles and gaps
- Identify and enable features and sections that can scale across multiple products and markets
- Champion agile and lean ways of working
- Follow up delivered initiatives with data to measure their impact
- Own traffic acquisition and revenue performance
- Set organic and paid growth targets
What they’re looking for
- Passionate and quick-thinking
- Own and grow a portfolio of sports affiliate products across multiple markets
- P&L responsibility
- Live and breathe sports
- Understand how betting audiences behave
- Know how to plan around the sporting calendar
What you get
- Delivering sustainable growth in traffic and revenue across allocated products
- Building a product-led, data-driven team that is enabled, accountable and aligned
- Creating clear commercial propositions that meet both user and commercial needs without compromising SEO performance, audience credibility or responsible gambling standards
Skills & Focus Areas
- Product Discovery
- Roadmap
- Traffic Acquisition
- P&L Responsibility
- Agile
- Data Analysis
As posted by Raketech
We’re searching for a passionate, quick-thinking Commercial Product Lead – Sports to drive our vision forward. With our finger on the pulse of the industry, we’re propelling growth and innovation. Ready to make your mark in the dynamic world of iGaming? Let’s shape the future together at Raketech!
Role Description Summary
You will own and grow a portfolio of Raketech’s sports affiliate products across multiple markets. This is a product-first role with P&L responsibility: you set the strategy and drive both the traffic acquisition and the commercial success of the products. You live and breathe sports, understand how betting audiences behave, and know how to plan around the sporting calendar.
Reporting to VP of Consumer Products
As a Commercial Product Lead – Sports, you are expected to:
Shape the products
Own the vision, strategy and roadmap for your allocated products, using continuous product discovery and user, market and business insights, and keeping up with competitors to find differentiation angles and gaps
Identify and enable features and sections that can scale across multiple products and markets.
Champion agile and lean ways of working, ensuring teams validate ideas early and iterate based on data
Follow up delivered initiatives with data to measure their impact, and share learnings across teams and markets
Driving traffic and revenue around the sporting calendar
Own traffic acquisition and revenue performance, set organic and paid growth targets together with the team, and identify new commercial opportunities
Plan the sports event calendar 6-12 months ahead and scale content, placements and campaigns up and down around major tournaments and league seasons
Together with our editors and content writers, set the standard for fast, accurate, news-style content that builds trust and demonstrates expertise, so our sites are recognised as authoritative sources by readers, search engines and AI-driven discovery.
Shape commercial propositions and operator placements in collaboration with the commercial team
Ensure content and commercial placements comply with market regulations and responsible gambling requirements, in collaboration with the compliance team
Work with people and partners
Lead product managers, SEO managers, site managers, editors and content writers, directly and indirectly, through clear standards, goal setting, priorities and feedback
Work closely with our social media manager, and take part in hiring and building team capability
Act as the main point of contact for your products for internal stakeholders and external service providers
Report on performance to senior stakeholders
Success in this role means:
Delivering sustainable growth in traffic and revenue across your allocated products
Building a product-led, data-driven team that is enabled, accountable and aligned
Creating clear commercial propositions that meet both user and commercial needs without compromising SEO performance, audience credibility or responsible gambling standards
Thriving in a fast-moving environment shaped by search algorithm changes, AI-driven discovery, the sporting calendar and iGaming regulation