Director of Product

Y-Axis; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Y-Axis is seeking a senior Product leader to drive the Product-Engineering Partnership within a dual-track Agile environment. You will coach PMs, align discovery with delivery, and translate business goals into a clear roadmap through executive-facing updates.

You will own governance of the product roadmap, partner with Engineering to balance scope and technical debt, and advocate for outcomes-focused delivery, with a strong emphasis on user insights, market data, and Lean execution.

Responsibilities

• Elevating Product Discovery & Conviction
• Advancing Empowered Squads: coach PMs to take deeper ownership of business outcomes
• Continuous Discovery: ensure squads are in contact with users to validate hypotheses
• Bias to Action with Knowledge: decisions rooted in user insights and market data
• Strategic Duo: partner with Director of Engineering to lead the R&D engine
• Discovery vs. Delivery Alignment: synchronize Discovery and Delivery tracks
• Resource & Trade-off Management: manage capacity and trade-offs between new features, debt, and maintenance
• The "Final Answer": gatekeeper for the product roadmap with clear yes/no decisions
• Vacuum Prevention: resolve misalignments across all swimlanes
• Commercial Realism: translate high-level goals into actionable priorities
• Product Operations Mastery: standardize discovery docs and research databases
• Outcome Accountability: manage Product Scorecard and Rolling Roadmap
• Radical Candor: coach PMs to think like owners with strategic independence
• Product Voice to the Company: represent Product org in company meetings and translate roadmaps into narratives
• Evangelizing the Vision: ensure Sales/Marketing/CS understand product direction
• Presentation Excellence: deliver high-impact updates with Pyramid Principle
• The "Slicer": coach PMs to avoid over-scoped features and focus on lean MVPs
• Pushback & Scrappiness: enable cheaper validation options
• Deep-Dive Problem Solving: help PMs deeply understand core user problems

Job description

Key Responsibilities:2. The Product-Engineering Partnership (Dual-Track Agile)3. Executive Communication & Stakeholder Management4. Operational Excellence & People Leadership5. Product Advocacy & Representation6. Aggressive Scope Management & Lean Execution

• Elevating Product Discovery & Conviction
• Advancing Empowered Squads: You will work to continually increase the level of empowerment within our squads. Moving beyond execution, you coach PMs to take deeper ownership of business outcomes, ensuring they are positioned to solve complex problems rather than just deliver features
• Continuous Discovery: You own the standard for modern discovery. You ensure squads are in constant contact with users to (in)validate hypotheses before significant engineering resources are committed
• Bias to Action with Knowledge: You move with high urgency but high conviction. Decisions must be rooted in user insights and market data, ensuring we are always "building the right thing."
• Strategic Duo: You work in a tight, peer-level partnership with the Director of Engineering to lead the "R&D engine." Together, you are responsible for the total health, culture, and output of the R&D organization
• Discovery vs. Delivery Alignment: While you own the Discovery Track (validating value and usability), you collaborate daily with the Director of Engineering, who owns the Delivery Track (feasibility, scalability, and execution). You ensure these two tracks are synchronized and never siloed
• Resource & Trade-off Management: You partner with Engineering leadership to manage capacity. You lead the difficult conversations regarding trade-offs between new feature discovery, technical debt, and maintenance, ensuring the business is always focused on the highest ROI activities
• The "Final Answer": You are the primary gatekeeper for the product roadmap. You provide clear, definitive "Yes/No" decisions to executive stakeholders underpinned with knowledge of our customers and the necessary trade-offs
• Vacuum Prevention: You identify misalignments early and resolve them across all swimlanes of the business.
• Commercial Realism: You translate high-level business goals (Retention, Revenue, Strategic Growth) into actionable priorities while aligning with the company's core Key Results and Business Objectives
• Product Operations Mastery: You view Product Ops as a strategic lever. You standardize discovery documentation and research databases across the organization to create a transparent, low-friction environment
• Outcome Accountability: You manage the Product Scorecard and Rolling Roadmap. These must be high-integrity, automated "Sources of Truth" providing executive-level visibility
• Radical Candor: You practice direct challenge combined with personal care. You are responsible for raising the "Product IQ" of your team—coaching PMs to think like owners and act with strategic independence
• Product Voice to the Company: Serve as the primary representative of the Product organization in company-wide meetings (All Hands, Town Halls). You must be able to translate complex technical roadmaps into compelling narratives that inspire and align the entire business
• Evangelizing the Vision: Actively advocate for the "Why" behind our product strategy. You ensure that Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success clearly understand our product direction, value propositions, and upcoming releases
• Presentation Excellence: You possess elite presentation skills, utilizing the Pyramid Principle to deliver high-impact, succinct, and visually clear updates to both internal and external audiences
• The "Slicer": You coach PMs to avoid "heavyweight" features. You have a relentless focus on building the leanest possible MVP, MSP, CMF, ILS solutions based on the need or pain. If a solution is over-scoped, you are the one who cuts it back to the core value
• Pushback & Scrappiness: You teach PMs to find their "appetite" for investment into a solution and how to find "cheaper" ways to validate hypotheses. You empower them to push back on high-effort requests by proposing creative, lower-cost alternatives
• Deep-Dive Problem Solving: You don't stay at the surface. You sit with PMs to help them deeply understand core user problems to avoid building "to cover all bases" and relentlessly focus on solving the actual customer pain