Senior Product Director

Consult; Greater London; Ibrido; GBP 144.000 - 188.000; Part-time

Descrizione del lavoro

Consult in London is seeking an Interim Product Director to steer BAU delivery on a strategic platform while guiding the longer-term product and investment strategy. The role requires senior leadership, pragmatic governance, and strong stakeholder management across executives and the wider business.

The selected candidate will design a transparent road map, establish governance, and drive adoption while coordinating with internal and external stakeholders in a flexible, hybrid environment.

Competenze

• Senior product leadership experience, including transformation roles.
• Experience introducing best practices in large organisations.
• Proven ability to work with C-level stakeholders in regulated environments.
• Strong storytelling and stakeholder management with resolving debates.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Experience with high-volume consumer platforms.

Mansioni

• Run BAU product delivery on the platform and lead knowledge transfer.
• Assess product decisions, prioritisation and stakeholder management today.
• Design and embed a transparent roadmap and prioritisation process.
• Define governance forums and decision ownership.
• Set up regular reporting cadence for execs and wider business.
• Prepare for monthly executive and SLT meetings.
• Develop change and communications plans to win stakeholder buy-in.
• Deliver close-out report with adoption status, risks and recommendations.

Conoscenze

Senior product leadership

Transformation experience

Stakeholder management

Executive collaboration

Documentation and communication

Large-scale consumer platform

Product best practices

Descrizione del lavoro

Interim Product Director

London – Hybrid

c.£900 per day | Interim contract, start ASAP | Outside IR35

Interim Product Director needed to manage the BAU of a strategic platform whilst the longer term product and investment strategy is finalised.

The Interim Product Director will work with the leadership team to ensure milestones and the roadmap are delivered during the next 6 months, whilst also analysing and documenting all current operational practices to be put clear, consistent governance, communication and good product practice in place.

There is little in the way of knowledge sharing or consistency in the way the product team operates or communicate with both internal and external stakeholders, as such the Interim Product Director role will suit a pragmatic product leader who understands what good looks like but is not utopian and can make best practice work in an evolving organisation, including keeping and documenting what currently works well.

The Interim Product Director will:

• Run BAU product delivery on the platform & lead knowledge transfer from key stakeholders
• Assess how product decisions, prioritisation and stakeholder management work today, including informal practices
• Design and embed a transparent roadmap and prioritisation process that balances executive direction, user evidence and stakeholder input
• Make clear who decides what and set up the governance forums to support it
• Set up a regular reporting cadence for executives and the wider business, covering roadmap reviews, KPIs and outcome metrics
• Prepare for and support monthly executive and SLT meetings
• Develop change and communications plans that keep discussions focused and win stakeholder buy-in
• Hand over a close-out report with adoption status, risks and recommendations for the permanent leader

The Interim Product Director must have:

• Senior product leadership experience, ideally including transformation roles
• A track record of introducing product best practice in a pragmatic, achievable way into large corporates or enterprise organisations
• Experience working with C-level stakeholders, ideally in a corporate or regulated, risk‑aware environment
• Strong storytelling and stakeholder management, with the ability to resolve circular debates
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Experience will a high volume or large scale consumer platform