Director of Product Strategy & Transformation

Wolters Kluwer; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 100.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Wolters Kluwer in London seeks a senior product leader to drive strategy and transformation, embedding with business-unit teams and leading lighthouse AI-enabled initiatives. You will accelerate the Product System evolution through expert coaching, governance improvements and scalable practices across product discovery, delivery and measurement.

The role requires deep product leadership, strong storytelling, and the ability to translate complex insights into actionable changes that improve

Qualifikationen

• Strategic leadership for product portfolios and roadmaps.
• Decision-making grounded in data and evidence.
• Collaborating with product, engineering, design and business partners.
• Experience applying AI in product development and workflows.
• Leading discovery, strategy and delivery across teams.

Aufgaben

• Lead the Agentic PDLC and AI-enabled product development across initiatives.
• Embed with senior leaders to unblock barriers and scale change initiatives.
• Define, pilot and scale new product development practices and tools.
• Coach product leaders and strengthen governance, metrics and operating models.
• Translate insights into repeatable, enterprise-ready capabilities.

Kenntnisse

Strategic leadership

Evidence-based decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-enabled product development

Product discovery & strategy

Change management

Communication & storytelling

Jobbeschreibung

• Millions of professionals rely on Wolters Kluwer to make critical decisions across healthcare, tax, legal, financial services, compliance and corporate performance. As AI reshapes professional work, our customers expect software that is more intelligent, integrated and effective
• Meeting those expectations requires rethinking how products are discovered, built, launched, measured and improved
• This newly created role reflects Wolters Kluwer’s commitment to transforming how products are built in the age of AI. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Transformation, you will help lead that evolution from the Corporate Strategy Office
• Working in a small enterprise team, you will partner with senior product, engineering, design and business leaders to strengthen the Product System and improve customer value, business outcomes and speed of innovation
• A key focus will be advancing the Agentic Product Development Lifecycle (Agentic PDLC), using AI across product development. You will combine deep product expertise with a hands‑on transformation mindset to implement and scale change
• This is a senior individual‑contributor role, leading through expertise, coaching, facilitation and influence. You will embed with business‑unit teams on high‑priority lighthouse initiatives, apply modern product practices and AI-enabled workflows, and turn proven approaches into reusable tools and operating practices for broader adoption
• Partner with senior product, engineering, design and business leaders to identify high‑impact opportunities and connect product decisions to customer and business outcomes
• Define, pilot and scale Wolters Kluwer’s Agentic PDLC and broader AI‑enabled product development capabilities
• Lead lighthouse engagements across product strategy, discovery, experimentation, delivery, launch and measurement
• Embed with cross‑functional teams to diagnose barriers, build trust and translate insight into practical change
• Coach product leaders and improve operating models, portfolio practices, governance and metrics
• Turn effective practices into repeatable tools, learning experiences and standards for enterprise adoption
• Establish success measures, demonstrate impact and use evidence to guide broader rollout

• Strong product judgment balanced with evidence-based decision-making
• Ownership of strategy and outcomes for a substantial product, platform or portfolio, from customer discovery through delivery and measurement
• Customer obsessed and focused on solving meaningful professional problems
• Ability to enter unfamiliar contexts, diagnose root causes, build trust and translate insight into action
• Strong analytical, communication, storytelling and facilitation skills, with the judgment to simplify complexity and align senior leaders
• Strong product craft across discovery, strategy, experimentation, prioritization, roadmaps, launch and measurement
• Curious, adaptable and energized by ambiguity, with high ownership and a bias toward action
• Passionate about product craft and motivated by helping multiple teams become more effective
• Pragmatic and hands‑on, able to challenge the status quo, build followership and move from strategy to implementation
• A track record of leading cross‑functional product, engineering and design teams to meaningful customer and business outcomes
• Recent hands‑on experience building AI-enabled or agentic products, transforming product development workflows through AI, or both
• Proven influence on product direction, operating models or organizational effectiveness beyond a single team, without relying on formal authority
• 8+ years of hands‑on Product Management and/or Product Leadership experience in B2B software, SaaS or technology companies
• Scaling reusable capabilities such as playbooks, metrics, communities of practice or leadership‑development programs
• Coaching product leaders and strengthening product management practices
• Leading product transformation, operating‑model change or organizational scaling initiatives
• Working across multiple businesses, portfolios or complex matrixed organizations