Director, Product Management

Overview

In this role, you lead a core product area end to end, balancing hands-on product work with team leadership to drive a multi-quarter roadmap and commercial outcomes. You will partner with Engineering, Design, GTM and Customer Success to align on strategy and delivery, while building and coaching a team of Product Managers. The position emphasizes data ecosystem expertise, AI-enabled product work, and operating at scale with cross-functional stakeholders. You will shape how data becomes more automated and actionable for customers, contributing to Matillion’s mission to move the data economy forward.

Pay / Benefits

• Company Equity
• 30 days holiday + bank holiday
• 5 days paid volunteering leave
• Private Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension

Responsibilities

• Own an end-to-end product area strategy and multi-quarter roadmap with resource trade-offs and commercial accountability
• Maintain hands-on ownership of a product area: write specs, conduct discovery, make product calls
• Set and enforce quality standards for the product area and intervene with senior stakeholders when necessary
• Understand user needs across data engineering, analytics and platform personas; maintain market view of data and AI ecosystem
• Build and lead a team of Product Managers, define operating rhythm and AI-enabled ways of working
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Engineering, Design, GTM, Customer Success and Marketing; present roadmap and trade-offs to leadership and customers

Key requirements

• 10+ years in product management
• 3+ years of direct PM management experience
• Track record shipping and scaling B2B products end to end with commercial impact
• People leadership experience with hiring and coaching Product Managers
• Hands-on exposure to the data ecosystem for credible technical trade-offs
• Systems thinking at scale balancing craft, speed and commercial impact across workstreams
• Deep data literacy and evidence-based decision-making
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate product work and teach/drive adoption

• Excellent communication with executives and senior customers
• ability to manage under commercial pressure while maintaining quality
• strong stakeholder management and collaboration across functions
• Data ecosystem familiarity
• AI-enabled product development
• Product management for B2B software

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