Director of Digital Product Engineering

Delaney & Bourton; Remote; GBP 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in the UK is looking for a Director of Digital Product Engineering to lead their digital product engineering function. This role involves defining a strategic roadmap for AI integration, overseeing the software development lifecycle, and building a product-centric operating model. The ideal candidate should possess significant leadership experience in digital engineering within multi-region organizations and have a strong fluency in AI/ML. The position offers a base salary up to £185,000 plus executive bonuses, with a remote working model.

Benefits

Executive level bonuses

Flexible working model

Innovative work environment

Qualifications

• Director-level experience in product or digital engineering.
• Experience in complex, multi-service organizations.
• Background in building product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group’s digital product engineering function.
• Define and deliver a strategic Product & AI roadmap.
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle applying modern engineering standards.

Skills

Leadership in digital engineering

SaaS product delivery

AI/ML fluency

Agile methodologies

Vendor partnership management

Job description

Director of Digital Product Engineering | UK Remote | £185k base + exec bonus | PE Backed | B2B SAAS

Newly created role to shape and lead the development of revenue generating, digital customer solutions for a high-growth PE-backed professional services firm (9,000 employees, £1bn revenue, £400m+ rev through digital products, international, product team 150)

We are partnered with a PE backed professional services firm, with a Value Creation Plan which is heavily linked to the growth and innovation of their digital products (SAAS) which are used by both external customers and internal fee earning employees.

This newly created Group-level director role (report to exco) will centralise multiple product teams delivering and have full strategic decision making over the group engineering & AI org structure, which is currently 150 people across various regions and products.

This role will build a modern, AI-enabled digital product engineering capability and define a roadmap that enhances client experience, colleague productivity, and long-term enterprise value.

The Role

• Lead the Group’s digital product engineering function across internal and client-facing digital products.
• Define and deliver a strategic Product & AI roadmap aligned to business and operational goals.
• Build a product-centric operating model across product, engineering, design, QA and AI functions.
• Oversee the full SDLC, adopting Agile, DevOps, CI / CD and modern engineering standards.
• Embed an AI-first approach across product development — automation, ML, data-driven decisioning, and platform innovation.
• Shape the product organisation’s structure, governance and culture, promoting experimentation and continuous delivery.
• Lead vendor partnerships and emerging-tech evaluations to accelerate innovation.
• Track value realisation of new digital products and AI capabilities.

The Person

• Director-level product / digital engineering leadership experience in a complex, multi-service or multi-region organisation.
• Experience delivering customer-facing digital products, SaaS, platforms or B2B technology solutions.
• Proven background in building and scaling product, digital, engineering or AI / automation teams.
• Strong fluency in AI / ML fundamentals and how to embed them into digital products.
• Visionary, commercially aware, and able to balance innovation with operational practicality.

The company has a remote UK working model with meetups as required.

Salary of c. £175,000 - £185,000 + exec level bonus / benefits

Due to the urgency of this hire, whilst recruiting this permanent hire, we would consider an interim in the short-medium.