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
Director, Product Management in Manchester employer: Matillion
At Matillion, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through mentorship opportunities and the chance to lead impactful projects in the rapidly evolving AI data automation space. Located in the vibrant EMEA region, we offer a dynamic work environment where your contributions directly influence our global success and customer satisfaction.
