Head Of Product Area

THE SCOPE

With 30 years of history, today Gaming1 is one of the international leaders in both land-based and online games of chance (casino games, sports betting and poker). Its evolution at the heart of innovation is accompanied by a diversification and specialization of positions, with the creation of new cutting-edge jobs. As part of its growth, Gaming1 is looking for an Head of Product Area.

The Head of Product for an Area owns a focused portfolio or mission area and turns ambitious outcomes into reality. You set a clear, inspiring north star, connect it to company objectives, and act as the bridge between strategic intent and tangible outcomes that improve player experience and business performance.

As a people manager, you grow and coach Product Managers, raising the bar for product craft and decision quality. You champion an objectives‑based, empowered operating model—aligning on outcomes, giving teams autonomy with guardrails, and building mechanisms that turn evidence into action. In senior cross‑functional forums, you represent the area with conviction, unblock decisions, secure alignment, and ensure measurable impact.

YOUR ROLE

Product vision and strategy

• Define a bold, inspiring and measurable vision for your area, aligned with the company’s CX Vision and strategic pillars.
• Translate this vision into a multi-quarter OKRs and ensure every initiative contributes to customer and financial outcomes (e.g. NPS, CSAT, GGR, retention).
• Represent your portfolio in senior leadership forums, influencing decisions and securing alignment.

People leadership, mentoring, and coaching

• Directly manage a team of Product Managers: clarify expectations, set goals, conduct regular 1:1s, and run performance reviews.
• Coach PMs on discovery, prioritisation, stakeholder management, decision making, and communication.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, and career development frameworks for PMs; raise craft standards with structured product critique.
• Foster a culture of accountability, evidence‑based decisions, and continuous learning, aligned with our Leadership Principles and the Product Career Ladder.

Cross‑functional leadership and product execution

• Maintain an outcome driven roadmap, balancing speed, scope, and business value.
• Partner with enterprise functions to plan, strategize, unblock and de‑risk delivery at pace.
• Advocate for experimentation and instrument a data-informed mindset in product practices
• Ensure alignment with company-wide planning cycles & processes.

YOUR PROFILE

Required experience

• 7+ years in Product Management roles within the relevant portfolio / mission area, with at least 3+ years as people manager of Product Managers and driving impact across multiple squads.
• Particularly interested in hearing from people with experience in Player Account Management platforms, Loyalty and Customer Engagement and Payments.

Key business skills

• Demonstrated ability to define strategy and drive measurable outcomes at portfolio or mission level
• Strong discovery skills: problem framing, hypothesis development, and validation techniques
• Proficiency with analytics and experimentation platforms; comfort with PowerBI, Excel or equivalent
• Excellent written and verbal communication tailored to executive and technical audiences
• Strong negotiation and conflict‑resolution skills; adept at influencing without authority
• Proven ability to manage complex dependencies and deliver through ambiguity
• Microsoft office suite, Power BI (or similar analytical tool), collaboration tools such as Miro, Jira
• Fluent in English

WHAT WE OFFER

As well as having a unique experience – centered around our values of pleasure, team spirit, performance, boldness and integrity - alongside 1,600 employees around the world, we offer:

• The opportunity to contribute to the international development of a family company from Liège
• The chance to take part in a human and entrepreneurial adventure within a solid group
• A friendly work environment that is adapted to reaching optimal performance
• Leadership by talents, values, trust and autonomy
• The opportunity to progress and specialise with our internal mobility system
• A competitive salary package with several perks
• The possibility to work remotely up to 50% for a good work-life balance
  Other potential benefits specific to the position

GAMING1'S NEWS

The Gaming1 Belgian hub moved to the heart of the Ardent City in 2021. Check our headquarters via this link. 
We are certified Top Employers 2025 We are the first game of chance company (casino, sports betting and poker) to receive this certification, among some 80 companies certified in our country, and including only 15% in Wallonia.
The health of our employees is our priority, we offer, as well as health and safety measures. Various activities are organized throughout the year, such as giving blood in the building’s courtyard, teambuilding days and the #loveyourhealth program which gives employees the opportunity to take part in various sporting activities.
More, the perks card offered to all Gaming1 employees. Browse the list of reductions.