Director of Product Management

Company: MRJ Recruitment Limited
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

The MRJ team are delighted to bring a very exciting Director of Product opportunity to market for a high-growth Series A funded business, who are recognised as a leader within Commerce Tech and scaling at serious pace globally.

The role | intro…..

Working closely with the CEO/Founder and COO, you’ll sit at the intersection of Product, Technology, and AI innovation, owning the vision, shaping the roadmap, and leading a next-generation, AI-native engineering model.

This isn’t a traditional leadership role. You’ll combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution, guiding small, highly autonomous teams to build, launch, and scale intelligent products used by millions across the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own and evolve the product vision & roadmap, aligned to growth, revenue, and customer outcomes
  • Lead innovation across B2C Web & Mobile apps and B2B SaaS platforms, with a strong focus on AI and automation
  • Build and scale AI-powered products from zero to one including rapid prototyping, MVP development, and iteration
  • Work hands-on with LLMs like Claude and GPT to unlock new product capabilities
  • Design and implement AI-enhanced engineering workflows to accelerate delivery
  • Translate market insight, customer needs, and business strategy into clear, actionable priorities
  • Partner cross-functionally to ensure product delivery drives ARR growth and commercial performance
  • Provide technical leadership, guiding architecture and ensuring scalability, security, and resilience
  • Lead and grow a high-performing, agile technology team, fostering a culture of pace, quality, and continuous improvement
  • Drive end-to-end execution, from discovery and validation through to release and iteration
  • Support expansion through M&A, shaping platform strategy, integrations, and product synergies

Person requirements:

This role is very much aligned to a visionary Product Innovator, defining & leading the product!!

  • Proven experience leading Product in start up / high growth B2C environments
  • Strong product leadership driving roadmap ownership, prioritisation, and customer-centric delivery
  • Experience and passion for embedding AI into products and workflows, identifying high-impact use cases
  • An experimentation mindset, constantly testing, learning, and iterating to validate ideas and drive measurable impact
  • Technical credibility, you can shape architecture and guide engineering, even if you’re not hands-on coding daily
  • A commercial mindset, you understand how product decisions drive revenue, retention, and growth
  • Confident stakeholder leadership, balancing speed, quality, and competing priorities
  • High energy, curiosity, and creativity, you bring momentum and thrive in fast-moving environments

Next steps:

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape and scale a market-leading product at a pivotal growth stage. You’ll be given significant scope to innovate, including practical AI integration and automation initiatives within a company that values drive, curiosity and impact.

If you’re a visionary product leader who thrives in high-growth companies and wants to build, innovate and deliver at speed, we’d love to hear from you.

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Posted: October 17th, 2026