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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Director of Product Management in Manchester employer: MRJ Recruitment Limited
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