Senior Director of Product

Role Overview

• You’ll join Spotted Zebra at a defining moment, with the opportunity to turn an ambitious product vision into the company that defines AI-native hiring.
• As Senior Director of Product, you’ll work closely with the CEO to set the direction across Product and Design, shape the priorities of the wider Product, Design and Engineering organisation, and translate rapid advances in AI, deep customer insight and commercial opportunity into a focused strategy that wins.
• You’ll influence the company’s biggest bets, help take our product into new global markets, and tell a compelling product story to enterprise customers, partners, investors and the board.
• You’ll also build the organisation and operating model capable of delivering that ambition. You’ll lead and develop a growing, high-performing Product and Design organisation, building on the five crews already in place, each with dedicated Product Management and support from specialist Design SMEs.
• You’ll embed AI-augmented ways of working that materially increase our speed and quality, and create a close partnership with Engineering so strategy, discovery and delivery move as one.
• You’ll stay close to customers and hands-on with the work when it matters, while creating the clarity, culture and capability Spotted Zebra needs to scale without losing the pace, ownership or product craft that makes us special.

Requirements

• Must-Haves ✅
• Product & Design leadership at scale: Demonstrated experience leading a Product and Design organisation across multiple teams and disciplines, with a track record of directly managing and elevating high-performing individual contributors while maintaining a hands-on presence in the work
• Engineering partnership at senior level: Proven ability to work as a true peer and strategic partner to Engineering leadership
• influencing technical direction, driving cross-functional alignment, and stepping up to provide broader leadership continuity when needed, without needing to hold direct line management of Engineering teams
• AI-native delivery: Proven experience building or transforming a product function to operate in an AI-native way
• embedding AI tooling into discovery, design, and delivery workflows to increase the speed, quality, and ambition of what the team can produce
• AI tooling fluency: Hands-on proficiency with AI tools relevant to product and design work
• from prototyping and research synthesis to writing, analysis, and delivery acceleration. Sophisticated understanding of AI and its application in B2B products, including an informed view on how AI will reshape the competitive landscape and what that means for product strategy and build decisions. You don’t just advocate for AI use; you model it
• IC management & coaching: Proven ability to directly manage, coach, and develop team members across Product and Design
• up to and including a Head of Design
• setting high expectations, giving honest feedback, and creating the conditions for great work without needing a management layer between you and the team
• Hands-on capability: Comfortable and willing to get hands-on when the situation demands it
• whether that’s diving into a discovery problem, shaping a strategy document, or stepping in to unblock a critical piece of work
• Scaling through funding rounds: Hands-on experience helping a high-growth startup navigate the transition from early-stage to scaled operations, including building the processes, structures, and culture that sustain growth without sacrificing agility
• Global product experience: Proven ability to develop and execute product strategy across international markets, with particular weight given to experience building for or expanding into the United States enterprise market
• Executive presence & investor readiness: Comfortable operating at board and investor level, with experience contributing to or leading fundraising narratives, due diligence processes, or strategic partnership discussions
• Cross-functional ownership: Experience owning functions beyond core product and design
• such as Solutions Architecture, Technical Pre-Sales, or Implementation
• and integrating them effectively into the broader product and go-to-market motion
• B2B SaaS at enterprise scale: Deep experience building and scaling enterprise SaaS products, with a strong understanding of the commercial dynamics, implementation complexity, and stakeholder management that enterprise customers require
• Strategic product thinking: Ability to operate across multiple time horizons simultaneously
• holding a clear long-term product vision while ensuring near-term execution remains focused, well-resourced, and commercially grounded
• Customer co-creation at executive level: Experience engaging executive stakeholders at enterprise customers to shape product direction, co-develop solutions, and build deep, long-term relationships that drive retention and expansion

Nice-to-Haves 🌟

• Experience in HR technology, talent assessment, or adjacent people-tech markets
• Track record of building products that serve both enterprise and mid-market customer segments simultaneously
• Experience establishing or scaling a product presence in the United States, including hiring and managing distributed teams across time zones
• Background operating as or alongside a Chief Product Officer or VP of Product in a high-growth environment

Benefits

• 🤝 Meaningful share options
• 🏥 Health insurance
• 💰 Enhanced pension
• 🍼 Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
• 🏖️ 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
• 🏠 Remote-first
• 💻 Work from home budget
• 🧠 L&D budget
• 🦷 Dental cover
• 👀 Eye-care support
• 🏢 Co-working space budget
• 🧘 Wellbeing allowance
• ✈️ Travel insurance
• 🚗 Electric car scheme