Product Director (New Ventures) in London

Requirements

• We’re looking for someone who uses AI to rethink how work gets done, not just optimise existing processes.
• Someone who reasons from first principles, moves quickly, and stays close to execution.
• Experience leading complex programmes and delivering at a senior level in fast moving environments.
• Excellent proposition development skills, with the ability to identify customer value and shape compelling products and experiences.
• Commercial and marketing capability, ideally including product marketing experience.
• Good understanding of sales and marketing, with a clear view of how commercial growth is driven.
• Product management experience, including working closely with engineering and design teams to build and iterate quickly.
• Experience owning a business line, product area, or commercial initiative as a GM, business owner, Chief of Staff, or similar leadership role.
• A background in strategy and operations within a tech or digital business.
• First principles reasoning, with the ability to create clarity and structure in ambiguous environments.
• A practical and opinionated approach to AI, using it to rethink workflows, execution, and team effectiveness rather than simply layering it onto existing processes.
• A track record in high growth, low maturity environments where you created structure rather than inherited it.

What the job involves

• This is a Fixed term contract role until May 2027.
• We’re looking for a director to run BLC Near Me: Building the platform that connects our members with local offers from businesses in their communities.
• This role is accountable for the full end to end development and delivery of this proposition: owning proposition, product, go to market, and commercial performance.
• You’ll lead a cross functional squad across product, engineering, design, data, commercial, and marketing, owning both sides of the marketplace: member engagement, and SME acquisition and retention.
• You’ll set targets, define how the business operates, and be accountable for outcomes, backed by the broader BLC platform.
• This is a hands‑on leadership role.
• You’ll shape what gets built, drive GTM directly, and make fast, evidence‑based decisions.
• Define and evolve the proposition, what we build, for whom, and why it wins against alternatives.
• Lead the product and engineering squad through a rapid build and iterate cycle.
• Drive go to market across both sides: member discovery and habitual usage, SME acquisition, onboarding, and retention.
• Own performance metrics, setting targets, tracking progress, and driving outcomes across usage, revenue, retention, and unit economics.
• Run structured experimentation, designing tests, learning fast, and scaling what works.
• Build the operating model, the processes, tooling, and ways of working needed to take this from early traction to durable scale.
• Create clarity from ambiguity, translating a large opportunity into a focused, sequenced plan.
• Set the standard for how AI changes the way this team works, not as a tool adoption exercise, but as a genuine rethink of how a small team diagnoses, builds, tests, and scales faster than teams previously could.