Product Director

Product Director
Job Type: Perm
Salary: £130,000 – £185,000 GBP / $160,000 – $220,000 USD + Bonus + Equity

Location: London or New York (Hybrid: 2–3 days onsite per week)

Consultant: Toby Day

 

The Organisation/Role:

A leading digital-first business undergoing rapid growth is seeking an exceptional Product Director to drive the vision, strategy, and execution of its product roadmap. Operating in a space where innovation, data and technology intersect, the company is scaling internationally and investing heavily in its product and platform teams.

The business is privately backed, commercially mature, and has achieved consistent YoY growth. With a global customer base, it combines platform development with a strong commercial model focused on solving complex user problems in a fast-evolving digital landscape.

The culture is entrepreneurial, values-led and collaborative, and the leadership team is passionate about building impactful, scalable solutions.

The Role

As Product Director, you will own the entire product lifecycle across a portfolio of digital products and platforms, managing a multi-functional team of product managers, designers, and analysts.

You will play a key leadership role in evolving the product vision, aligning it to company strategy, and leading the team in discovery, prioritisation, and delivery. Reporting into the CPO (or CEO), you’ll act as a key bridge between commercial, design, engineering and marketing.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a mix of strategic vision, operational excellence, customer insight, and technical fluency.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and deliver a scalable product strategy aligned to business objectives and user needs.
• Own and optimise the product roadmap; champion prioritisation frameworks and ensure initiatives are linked to commercial impact.
• Lead a high-performing team of Product Managers and UX professionals.
• Partner with engineering, design, and data teams to deliver robust and delightful digital experiences.
• Conduct ongoing market, user and competitor research to ensure strong product-market fit.
• Evangelise product thinking across the business and act as a voice of the customer in strategic decision-making.
• Monitor key product metrics and drive continuous improvement across usability, performance, and adoption.
• Champion agile and lean methodologies; help embed a test-and-learn culture and hypothesis-driven development approach.
• Act as a senior stakeholder in investor updates, board meetings and strategic planning sessions.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in digital product leadership roles; including 3+ years in a Director-level or Head of Product role.
• Strong track record of shipping successful B2B or B2C digital products, ideally across platforms (web/mobile).
• Experience scaling products and teams within high-growth or venture-backed environments.
• Deep knowledge of agile product development, with hands-on experience in building and iterating based on data and insight.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels; equally confident with exec boards and engineering sprints.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Commercial acumen – you think like a founder, balancing user value with business value.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, scaling environments.
• Ideally experienced in SaaS, fintech, healthtech, edtech or similar sectors.

 

The Digital Recruitment Company is an Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.

To apply for this role please contact us at:

Toby Day

0203 640 2133

toby@digitalrecruitmentcompany.com

www.digitalrecruitmentcompany.com