Senior Director of Product | Remote (UK)

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Executive
Product Management
Spotted Zebra

Spotted Zebra

Spotted Zebra is a company that powers skills-based organizations through their skills cloud platform. They focus on ensuring skills are at the center of every decision made about people, whether it's talent acquisition, talent development, or internal...

Professional Services
11-50
Founded 2020
$2M raised

Description

  • Own and lead the Product and Design functions, setting strategic direction, priorities, and a high-performance culture.
  • Directly manage, coach, and develop high-performing individual contributors across Product and Design.
  • Stay hands-on with strategy, discovery, and delivery when needed to keep execution moving.
  • Own organisational design, budget planning, and headcount planning across Product and Design.
  • Partner closely with Engineering leadership to align product, design, and technical roadmap decisions.
  • Set and embed AI-augmented delivery practices across strategy, research, prototyping, design, specification, and decision-making.
  • Shape the long-term product vision and expand product strategy for enterprise customers in the US and other international markets.
  • Represent the product and technology perspective in fundraising, board discussions, investor meetings, and major partnerships.
  • Serve as an external spokesperson with enterprise customers, partners, industry events, press, and analysts.
  • Take ownership of boundary functions such as Solutions Architecture and ensure alignment with the broader go-to-market motion.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience leading a Product and Design organisation across multiple teams and disciplines.
  • Proven ability to work as a senior partner to Engineering leadership without requiring direct line management of Engineering teams.
  • Proven experience building or transforming a product function to operate in an AI-native way.
  • Hands-on proficiency with AI tools for prototyping, research synthesis, writing, analysis, and delivery acceleration.
  • Sophisticated understanding of how AI affects B2B products, competitive dynamics, and product strategy.
  • Proven ability to directly manage, coach, and develop team members across Product and Design, including Heads of Design.
  • Comfortable getting hands-on with discovery, strategy documents, and delivery unblocking when needed.
  • Hands-on experience helping a high-growth startup scale through funding rounds and operational transition.
  • Proven ability to develop and execute product strategy across international markets, especially the US enterprise market.
  • Comfortable operating at board and investor level with experience in fundraising narratives, due diligence, or strategic partnerships.
  • Experience owning adjacent functions such as Solutions Architecture, Technical Pre-Sales, or Implementation.
  • Deep experience building and scaling enterprise B2B SaaS products with strong commercial and stakeholder management understanding.
  • Ability to balance long-term product vision with near-term execution and commercial priorities.
  • Experience engaging executive stakeholders at enterprise customers to co-create solutions and drive retention and expansion.
  • Experience in HR technology, talent assessment, or adjacent people-tech markets is preferred.
  • Experience building products for both enterprise and mid-market segments is preferred.
  • Experience establishing or scaling a product presence in the United States, including distributed teams across time zones, is preferred.
  • Background operating as or alongside a Chief Product Officer or VP of Product in a high-growth environment is preferred.

Benefits

  • Meaningful share options.
  • Health insurance.
  • Enhanced pension.
  • Nursery salary sacrifice scheme.
  • 25 days of holiday excluding bank holidays.
  • Remote-first working arrangement.
  • Work-from-home budget.
  • Learning and development budget.
  • Dental cover.
  • Eye-care support.
  • Co-working space budget.
  • Wellbeing allowance.
  • Travel insurance.
  • Electric car scheme.
  • Access to the latest AI-powered tools and technologies.

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