Senior Director - Product and UX in Leeds

If you want to be part of an organisation that offers you a variety of work, the opportunity to upskill and become multi-disciplinary in an agile and agnostic environment, work flexibly in line with a healthy work/life balance; As an experience led consultancy, we build capability, support acceleration of change and make digital transformation continuous and sustainable.

The salary banding for this role starts from £75,000, depending on experience.

• Vitality health plan for all permanent employees and their family members – including dental, optical, online GP and physio.
• Mental health and wellbeing support services and resources.
• Discretionary 10% performance related bonus and annual salary review.
• 5% matched pension scheme (option to enhance).
• 25 holiday days, with additional given for significant birthdays and life events. There is the opportunity to buy an extra 5 holiday days.
• EV Car Scheme.
• A tailored learning and development plan with funding for ongoing training.
• 4 paid days per year to volunteer and contribute towards charity and community projects.
• First Direct Arena Leeds private box access throughout the year.
• Candidate referral scheme (£500 - £2000) and Client referral scheme (value based on revenue).
• You will be working as a Senior Product Manager within a collection of data-driven, outcome led product leaders where user-centric design thinking is always front and centre.

We work across a spectrum of client accounts, bringing lean-thinking and agility to ensure that things go faster in a controlled, well thought through, data driven manner that goes hand in hand with delivery excellence.

We are Product people at heart and as a result are focused on our client’s user experiences, enabling the clients to and deliver incremental value rapidly and regularly, through continuous improvement, while always aiming for simplicity.

There is a requirement to be onsite in our central Leeds office 1 to 2 times a week.

This can be discussed with your manager for full flexibility and can be restructured to best suit your needs, as well as some travel to client site (specific to client needs and requirements).

Lead the end‑to‑end digital product lifecycle from discovery to launch and optimisation within client engagements, owning product‑level P&L performance, ensuring revenue, margin, and value‑creation targets are achieved (where appropriate).

• Prioritise and manage product backlogs using agile methods and value‑based decision frameworks.
• Define and track KPIs to assess product health and inform data‑driven decisions.
• Work autonomously and deliver exceptional quality work without supervision.
• Support Axiologik business growth and capability development through identification of new opportunities, bid support, client engagement, line management, mentoring and coaching of teams (both internal to Axiologik and within client engagements).
• Digital product management experience, including product‑level P&L ownership.
• Practical experience in agile product delivery (Scrum, Kanban, dual‑track discovery, etc.).
• Strong capability in building roadmaps and balancing strategic and tactical decision‑making.
• Skilled in using data and analytics to validate decisions and measure product outcomes.
• Mastery of agile product management, product‑strategy techniques, and ideally value stream mapping.
• Experience working closely with engineering, architecture, UX, and delivery functions.
• Confidence in facilitating discovery sessions, user research, and value‑proposition development.
• Understanding of digital product design, UX principles, and modern technology stacks.
• All screening calls and virtual interviews will be recorded as part of our processes.

If successful in application, you will be asked to confirm pronouns and make Talent aware of any reasonable adjustments you have, so we can ensure you are set up for success.

There will be a screening call with our Talent Partner, a first stage interview (virtual) and final stage (in person), with a short presentation involved.

Our time to hire is typically 4 weeks from advertising but may go outside of this due to Bank Holidays, AL and client engagements.

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