Game Studio Lead
This role involves taking ownership of work that gives the company its competitive edge, including owning the end-to-end lifecycle of in-house casino games from concept through to launch, optimisation, and ongoing performance.
The role also involves defining and driving the in-house game strategy aligned to broader casino content and business objectives. It requires leading and guiding the studio management team to deliver on operational objectives and commitments.
Responsibilities include building and managing a strong pipeline of game concepts, ensuring a balanced and differentiated portfolio. The individual will act as Product Owner, setting scope, priorities, and acceptance criteria for game development, and ensuring games are delivered on time, to quality standards, and aligned with strategic goals.
Further duties involve overseeing product roadmaps, identifying opportunities to create unique, high-value content not available through external providers, and owning the commercial performance of in-house games, driving revenue and margin growth. Partnering with optimisation and analytics teams to drive continuous improvement through data insights is also key, as is ensuring alignment between internal game development and external content strategies.
Maintaining strong collaboration with Product Governance to ensure testing, certification, and release standards are met, managing escalations effectively within agreed service levels, and ensuring operational continuity are also part of the role. Aligning stakeholders around shared goals, ensuring cross-functional collaboration, and monitoring market trends and competitor activity to maintain a competitive edge are also required. Forecasting and tracking key performance metrics across the studio portfolio is also a responsibility.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of in-house casino games from concept through to launch, optimisation, and ongoing performance.
- Define and drive the in-house game strategy aligned to broader casino content and business objectives.
- Lead and guide the studio management team to deliver on operational objectives and commitments.
- Build and manage a strong pipeline of game concepts, ensuring a balanced and differentiated portfolio.
- Act as Product Owner, setting scope, priorities, and acceptance criteria for game development.
- Ensure games are delivered on time, to quality standards, and aligned with strategic goals.
- Oversee product roadmaps and ensure delivery commitments are met across the studio.
- Identify opportunities to create unique, high-value content not available through external providers.
- Own the commercial performance of in-house games, driving revenue and margin growth.
- Partner with optimisation and analytics teams to drive continuous improvement through data insights.
- Ensure alignment between internal game development and external content strategies.
- Maintain strong collaboration with Product Governance to ensure testing, certification, and release standards are met.
- Manage escalations effectively within agreed service levels and ensure operational continuity.
- Align stakeholders around shared goals, ensuring cross-functional collaboration.
- Monitor market trends and competitor activity to maintain a competitive edge.
- Forecast and track key performance metrics across the studio portfolio.
- Strong experience in game development, product management, or casino/gaming environments (required).
- Deep understanding of player behaviour and content performance drivers (required).
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate data into actionable product decisions (required).
- Proven ability to operate strategically while delivering detailed execution (required).
- Experience delivering results in high-pressure environments with multiple concurrent initiatives (required).
- Strong leadership experience, with the ability to develop and motivate high-performing teams (required).
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills (required).
- Ability to balance commercial objectives with technical constraints (required).
- Proactive, structured, and outcome-driven mindset (required).
- Adaptability and resilience in fast-paced, evolving environments (required).
- Experience managing in-house game studios or similar product teams (nice-to-have).
- Strong understanding of casino product strategies and content pipelines (nice-to-have).
- Exposure to game certification and regulatory environments (nice-to-have).
- Experience working with analytics and optimisation tools (nice-to-have).
- Knowledge of emerging trends in casino and gaming innovation (nice-to-have).
Betway Group is an online gambling operator founded in 2006 and part of Super Group, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SGHC. It provides entertainment across sports betting, casino and esports betting, built on proprietary and latest-generation technologies. The company offers interactive gaming experiences spanning pre-game and live sports betting, esports and casino in a regulated, responsible environment. Betway is headquartered in Gzira, Malta, and operates across multiple international markets.