Director, Product Management

As Director, Product Management, you'll own the strategy and execution for a core area of Matillion's product end to end. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll carry direct product ownership for a significant area while building and leading a team of Product Managers, roughly 40% of your time in direct product work, the rest on team leadership, stakeholder management and portfolio oversight. Matillion is the company behind Maia, the AI Data Automation platform.

Responsibilities

Own a product area end to end: define the strategy for your area, translate company and product strategy into a multi-quarter roadmap, and make the prioritisation and resourcing trade-offs across multiple workstreams, with accountability for the commercial outcome of the whole portfolio; Stay hands-on: retain direct ownership of a specific product area, write specs, run discovery, and make product calls yourself; Set and enforce the quality bar: define what good looks like for the product area, review your team's product decisions and outputs, and hold the line with senior stakeholders when a capability isn't ready to ship; Understand the market and the users: maintain a view of user needs across data engineering, analytics and platform personas, and own the competitive and market view of the data and AI ecosystem; Build and lead the team: hire, coach and manage the performance of a team of Product Managers, run the team's operating rhythm, and set the standard for AI-enabled ways of working across the group; Drive cross-functional and executive alignment: partner with Engineering and Design leadership, keep GTM, Customer Success and Marketing ahead of what's shipping, and present roadmap and trade-offs to stakeholders, leadership and customers

Requirements

Typically 10+ years in product management, including 3+ years managing Product Managers directly; A track record of shipping and scaling B2B products end to end, with demonstrable commercial impact; People leadership experience: you've hired, coached and managed the performance of Product Managers directly; Real, hands-on exposure to the data ecosystem, enough to make credible technical trade-off calls; A systems thinker operating at scale, balancing craft, speed and commercial impact across multiple workstreams at once; Deep data literacy, and the ability to hold your team accountable to evidence-based decision-making; A demonstrable track record of using AI tools to accelerate product work, and the ability to model, teach and hold your team to that same standard; Excellent communication, including credibility in front of executive leadership and senior customers; Comfortable holding a line under commercial pressure on product quality and team standards, and operating at both strategic and hands-on altitude in the same week

Benefits

Company Equity; 30 days holiday + bank holiday; 5 days paid volunteering leave; Private Health Insurance; Life Insurance; Pension; Access to mental health support