Director of Product Management

Matillion; Manchester; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Equity

Health insurance

75 days of total leave? (placeholder)

Job summary

Matillion seeks a Director of Product Management to own strategy and execution for a core product area. You will lead a team of Product Managers, spend significant time on direct product work, and drive a multi-quarter roadmap with cross-functional alignment.

You will partner with Engineering, Design, GTM and Customer Success to stay ahead of shipping and translate learnings into what’s next. Expect a hands-on, data-driven leadership role with strong executive communication.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of using AI tools to accelerate product work.
• 10+ years in product management with direct PM leadership experience.
• Comfortable handling commercial pressure while delivering quality.
• Systems thinker balancing craft, speed and impact across streams.
• Deep data literacy and evidence-based decision making.
• Shipping and scaling B2B products end to end with commercial impact.
• Experience hiring, coaching and managing Product Managers.
• Excellent communication with executive leadership and customers.
• Hands-on exposure to the data ecosystem for credible trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and execution for a core product area end to end.
• Lead a team of Product Managers and balance hands-on work with leadership.
• Define a multi-quarter roadmap and prioritise across workstreams.
• Maintain direct product ownership and write specs and run discovery.
• Set quality standards and enforce accountability with stakeholders.
• Understand market needs across data engineering and analytics personas.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with engineering, design, GTM and Success.
• Present roadmap trade-offs to leadership and customers.

Skills

AI tools usage

Data literacy

People leadership

Executive communication

Systems thinking

PM leadership in B2B

Pressure management

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on product work

Tools

N/A

Job description

• 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, and that balance will shift over time
• Success in this role means category-level command of the data landscape, sharp product instincts, and the ability to raise the bar in others, not just in your own output
• You’ll partner closely with Engineering and Design leadership to align on technical strategy, and with GTM, Customer Success and Marketing to keep the business ahead of what’s shipping and turn what you learn into what you build next
• 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, not just through your team
• 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 - even when it’s commercially uncomfortable
• 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 on technical strategy and delivery capacity, keep GTM, Customer Success and Marketing ahead of what’s shipping, and present roadmap and trade‑offs to stakeholders, leadership and customers

Benefits

• A truly flexible & remote working culture
• A culture that promotes work‑life balance
• Company Equity
• Access to mental health support
• 15 days PTO that increases to 25 after 12 months of service
• 5 days paid volunteering leave
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• 401K
• Career development with monthly “hackdays” and access to a Udemy account
• A culture that promotes work life balance
• Access to mental health support
• 25 days holiday
• 5 days paid volunteering leave
• Pension
• Career development with monthly hackdays, access to a Udemy account, Blinkist and much more

• 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
• Typically 10+ years in product management, including 3+ years managing Product Managers directly
• Comfortable holding a line under commercial pressure - on product quality and on team standards - and operating at both strategic and hands‑on altitude in the same week
• 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 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
• Excellent communication, including credibility in front of executive leadership and senior customers
• Real, hands‑on exposure to the data ecosystem - enough to make credible technical trade‑off calls