Director of Product Management

Role overview

Join Dotdigital as Director of Product Management. You’ll be responsible for the coherence, quality, and outcomes of product management across the Dotdigital platform, leading a team of Group Product Managers and Product Managers and shaping long-term product direction with senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product roadmap across a portfolio of products, ensuring alignment with business priorities, customer needs, and market opportunities.
• Lead, coach, and develop product management staff (Group Product Managers and Product Managers), raising standards for product thinking, prioritization, and delivery.
• Partner with engineering leadership to enable effective planning, clear trade-off discussions, and predictable delivery across product pods.
• Work closely with the SVP of Product and broader leadership to surface emerging opportunities and influence long-term direction.
• Set and own portfolio-level product KPIs, embedding data-driven decision-making and accountability.
• Drive modernization and ensure consistent high-level ways of working across the product organization.

Requirements

• Proven ability to build or mature PM discipline, including hiring, leveling frameworks, discovery practices, and operating cadence/ways of working.
• Experience operating a pod/squad model, managing cross-functional dependencies and cross-pod prioritization.
• Background contributing to pricing, packaging, and product commercialization decisions with commercial and marketing teams.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML product development, ideally in a commercial SaaS context.
• 5+ years leading Product Management teams in B2B SaaS, with evidence of raising PM quality and discipline.
• Ability to define and run portfolio-level KPIs and implement measurement infrastructure.
• Experience in sales-led SaaS, collaborating with sales and commercial teams on deals, enablement, and go-to-market execution.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing / martech, including marketer problems and how technology solves them.
• Proficiency in Agile delivery across multiple concurrent delivery streams.
• CapEx/OpEx literacy and experience informing or contributing to R&D investment planning.
• Strong stakeholder management, comfortable influencing senior leaders/C-suite, customers, and investors.
• High emotional intelligence and a people-first leadership style that creates psychological safety.
• Excellent communication across developers, customers, commercial teams, leadership, and partners.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to bring structure and clarity.

Nice-to-haves

• Deep belief in and alignment with Dotdigital’s product and mission.
• Demonstrated success raising PM rigor through concrete frameworks and operating practices.