Learning Product Lead
- Full-time
- Advertising Department: Human Resources & People
- Referral Band: ♠
Company Description
Entain is a global leader in sports betting, gaming, and interactive entertainment, operating some of the most iconic brands in the industry including bwin, Ladbrokes, Coral, and PartyPoker. With a presence in over 20 markets and a commitment to responsible and sustainable gaming, Entain is at the forefront of a evolving digital landscape. This is an exciting time to join the organisation as it continues to transform into a data-driven, tech-led powerhouse, investing in new platforms, AI, and global growth opportunities. As part of a listed FTSE 100 company, you'll join a workforce where your work can have impact across millions of customers worldwide.
Entain's mission: 'to bring moments of excitement into people's lives' underpins an unwavering focus on putting customers at the heart of everything the business does. It is this driving force that has enabled Entain to deliver a richer, more engaging experience for customers documented by the record level of propositions it now offers. Through a the latest proprietary technology platform, it provides safe and exciting gaming experiences to millions of customers by multiple iconic brands.
Today, Entain is a global, leading sports betting and gaming entertainment group. It has a portfolio of established brands across sports and gaming, and a 50:50 JV with MGM Resorts International (BetMGM) in the US. The business generates c.£5.6bn in Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) and over £1bn in EBITDA per annum, with operations spanning over 40 regulated or regulating territories. Entain is the most of scale in its sector, with mid to high single-digit growth expected Year-over-year over the medium term across its main markets.
Following a period of successful internal transformation across 2023 and 2024, the Group now poises itself for growth, with substantial tailwinds in its favour and financial performance continuing to lead the charge in its sector. The Group's priorities are:
- Organic Growth – acquiring and retaining customers by ensuring a smooth and engaging experience for players.
- Promote Efficiency – simplifying our operating model to be more engaging, driving greater returns through efficient use of capital.
- Must-Win Markets, including the US – outperforming our markets over the long term.
Job Description
Purpose of Role
The Learning Product Lead is accountable for what learning products exist across the organisation and why.
This role:
- Owns the enterprise learning portfolio, intentionally designing, prioritising, and governing learning products to build the skills the organisation needs – now and in the future.
- The Learning Product Lead operates at the intersection of skills intelligence, business priorities, and learning design. They make clear investment trade-offs, outlining which learning products to build, improve, or retire. Additionally, they align everything in the portfolio to priority capabilities, scalable delivery, and measurable impact.
- Ensure learning products are fit for purpose, high quality and ready them for activation through learning experiences, pathways and workforce plans.
Main Accountabilities
Learn Portfolio Ownership
- Be the product owner for the learning ecosystem, ensuring platforms, content and skills data work together to deliver a consistent, scalable experience
- Own and govern a portfolio of learning products aligned to priority skills and organisational needs.
- Define what learning products should exist, for whom, and at what level of depth or scale.
- Make evidence‑based decisions to invest in, evolve, scale or retire learning products.
Product Strategy and Standards
- Defines learning product standards covering design, curation, facilitation and quality.
- Ensures learning products are modular, reusable and scalable across roles, regions and delivery contexts.
- Maintain clear product definitions (what it is / is not) to avoid duplication or fragmentation.
Skills and Workforce Agreement
- Partner with global Learning colleagues and People Partners to ensure learning products are guided by priority skills, not ad‑hoc demand.
- Design learning products with pathways, progression and internal mobility in mind.
- Intentionally align learning products to skills frameworks and talent systems.
Vendor and Partner Management
- Own relationships with strategic learning vendors as product partners, not content suppliers.
- Ensure external solutions integrate coherently into the learning portfolio and meet defined quality and effect standards.
Insight, Performance and Optimisation
- Define and track product‑level success measures (relevance, reach, quality, and performance).
- Use data and insight to improve the portfolio and reduce low‑value activity.
Collaboration
- Work in close partnership with the Learning Experience Lead to ensure products are activated through journeys and experiences.
- Be an important interface between skills strategy, learning delivery and platform capability.
Qualifications
Main Experience
- Experience managing learning products, programmes or portfolios end-to-end within a digital learning ecosystem (LMS, LXP, skills and talent platforms).
- Experience learning design, capability development and how these are enabled through platforms, data and user experience.
- Experience managing learning vendors and external partners, including platform providers and content aggregators, commercially.
- Work with skills intelligence, workforce data and platform insights to inform product strategy and optimisation.
- Experience with how learning, talent and skills systems integrate (e.g. LMS/LXP, talent marketplace, performance systems) to promote pathways, mobility and workforce planning.
- Comfortable operating in complex, matrixed organisations.
What's in it for you
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus
- Private health care
- Pension contribution
- Share save schemes
Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
At Entain, we do what's right. It's one of our core values. That's why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive future. This future is for our people and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated.
We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.