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Product Director
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
4 days ago
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0
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Product Director
Arbor Education
Role Description We are looking for a strategic and results-oriented Product Director to lead SAMpeople (HRIS, ATS product and integrations). This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for defining the long-term vision and ensuring the successful execution of our product strategy. You will sit at the intersection of business goals, technical feasibility, and user needs, managing a high-performing team to deliver scalable solutions that drive growth and adoption. Reporting directly to the CPO, you will be a key voice in shaping the future of our ecosystem. Core responsibilities - Strategic Vision: Translate the company’s high-level mission into a concrete product strategy and actionable roadmap. - AI enabled Product Lifecycle Management: Collaborate with the wider R&D leadership team across the suite on our ongoing AI transformation. Champion the end-to-end lifecycle of SAMpeople becoming AI enabled across the SDLC. - Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, hire, and develop a team of Product Managers. Foster a culture of high performance, continuous learning, and user-centricity. - Commercial & Data Acumen: Build a strong understanding of the commercial strategy within the product team, and what they must do to deliver on it, while continuing to improve NPS. - Cross-Functional Orchestration: Work closely with Go-To-Market (GTM) teams to ensure product launches are supported by strong marketing, sales enablement, and customer success strategies. Qualifications - Proven Leadership: Significant and demonstrable experience in Product Leadership. - Scale Experience: A track record of successfully managing products through high-growth phases. - Stakeholder Mastery: Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence C-suite executives and technical leads alike. - Outcomes Mindset: Comfortable creating clarity of direction for your team through concrete measurable outcomes, for which you put the structures in place to measure and are able to hold your team accountable. - Resilience & Adaptability: Experience navigating ambiguity and leading teams through change or organizational scaling. Benefits - The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work every day. - A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more! - 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas. - Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary. - Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks. - Private Dental Insurance with Bupa. - Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows. - Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay. - 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life! - Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching). - All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you. - Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success. - Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc). - Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year. - Dog friendly offices! Interview process - Phone screen - 1st stage - 2nd stage
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