Senior Strategy & Competitive Intelligence Researcher

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About the Role

Most strategy work in large gaming organisations lives in finance decks and consulting reports. It is slow, expensive, and disconnected from the user evidence the research function spends its life generating. This role exists to close that gap. As Staff Strategy & Competitive Intelligence Researcher at Superbet, you are the person who connects what we know about users to what we decide about markets, competitors, and bets.

You own the intelligence layer that sits above the existing research stack — taking the consumer signal from User Research, the behavioural signal from Quant Research, and the campaign‑level competitive signal from Market Intelligence, and turning it into a continuous, opinionated strategic view that the CEO, CPO, CMO, and Board can act on.

Concretely, this means:

• When leadership is debating whether to enter a new geography, you produce the TAM/SAM/SOM, the competitor heat map, the regulatory readiness assessment, and a clear recommendation — in three weeks, not three months.
• When a competitor announces a major product or M&A move, you have a synthesised interpretation in front of the executive team within 48 hours, not next quarter’s strategy review.
• When a regulator in one of our 12+ markets signals a policy shift, you flag the commercial implication before our competitors have written their first memo on it.

You do not run agency studies or commission outsourced consultancy decks to answer these questions. You operate an AI‑native intelligence system that does it continuously, at a fraction of the cost, and with stronger first‑party grounding than any external firm can offer.

You sit inside the Research function but spend a significant share of your time outside it: in commercial reviews, in regulator conversations, in board‑prep sessions, and in the rooms where strategic capital is allocated. Your job is not to produce a report. It is to change a decision.

What AI‑Native Means in Practice for This Role

• Strategy as a continuous system, not a quarterly artefact. You do not build strategy decks on demand. You operate a live competitive and market intelligence system that updates itself — pulling competitor product releases, financial filings, ad spend signals, regulator publications, and market data into a synthesised, AI‑summarised feed that you interpret and act on weekly.
• Market sizing as code, not as a one‑off Excel. Your TAM/SAM/SOM models are versioned, parameterised, and re‑runnable.
• LLMs as a synthesis layer over thousands of unstructured strategic signals. You design the pipelines that surface what matters, validate the outputs critically, and feed the synthesised view into executive decisions.
• Synthetic stress‑testing before expensive bets. Before recommending a major strategic move, you run AI‑driven scenario simulations.
• Critical AI judgement as a core skill. You know exactly where AI‑generated strategic analysis fails.

What You Will Own

• Own Superbet’s competitive intelligence function at the strategic level — distinct from and complementary to the campaign‑level competitive monitoring run by Market Intelligence.
• Operate an AI‑augmented monitoring system covering Flutter, Entain, Kindred, Betsson, bet365, DraftKings, FanDuel, Tipico, and the regional challengers in each of Superbet’s markets.
• Build and maintain competitor strategic profiles that go beyond “what they did” to “what it means and what we should do”.
• Produce a monthly Competitive Strategy Briefing for the CEO and executive team.
• React fast to material competitor moves.

Market Sizing, Geographic Strategy & Expansion Cases

• Own Superbet’s market sizing capability end‑to‑end: TAM, SAM, SOM models for every market we operate in or are evaluating.
• Lead the analytical work behind market‑entry, market‑deepening, and market‑exit decisions.
• Maintain a live view of regulatory and commercial dynamics across all 12+ Superbet markets.
• Partner with Strategic Finance and Commercial Strategy on enterprise‑level strategic questions.

External Regulatory & Policy Intelligence

• Build and operate Superbet’s regulatory and policy intelligence system.
• Translate regulatory developments into commercial implication.
• Represent Superbet in the right external rooms.
• Build relationships with key external stakeholders.

Strategic Narrative & Executive Influence

• Own the strategic narrative that gets told inside Superbet about our markets, our competitors, and our position.
• Produce executive‑grade deliverables calibrated for the audience.
• Build internal coalitions for strategic positions.

Strategic Intelligence Infrastructure

• Own the function’s strategic intelligence tool stack.
• Build the automation that makes high‑throughput strategic intelligence sustainable.
• Maintain a strategic intelligence repository.
• Set the standard for AI‑assisted strategy work across Superbet.

8+ years across strategy, competitive intelligence, market intelligence, corporate development, or strategic research — with at least 3 years in roles where the deliverable was a decision, not a deck.

Skills & Mindset

• Strategist, not analyst.
• AI‑native operator.
• Methodological seriousness.
• Executive presence under pressure.
• Commercial pragmatism.
• External credibility.
• Organisational mover.
• Quietly opinionated.

Nice to Have

• MBA, MSc in Economics, Finance, Political Economy, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Direct experience in sports betting, online gambling, or adjacent regulated consumer sectors.
• Strong Python proficiency for building market models.
• SQL fluency for working directly with internal data.
• Experience with strategic intelligence platforms.
• Multi‑market or pan‑European commercial experience.

Why This Role at Superbet

Strategy in regulated, multi‑market sports betting is a genuinely hard problem. This role exists because Superbet is now large enough, multi‑market enough, and ambitious enough that this work cannot be outsourced to consulting firms or held in a single CEO’s head. It needs to be a function — an AI‑native, embedded, continuous one — and you are the person who builds it.

About Super

We are a global technology group, dedicated to building the future of entertainment and fan‑centric experiences. Our purpose at Super has evolved from sports and betting into creating the platform that stretches into the wider world of technology‑driven entertainment. With a growing and diverse team of more than 5,000 people, we create immersive, responsible, and personalised experiences for millions of customers worldwide.