Director of Product Management

About This Role

Directing product management involves owning the strategy and execution for a core area of Matillion's product from end to end. This is a hands-on leadership position where you will carry direct product ownership for a significant area while also building and leading a team of Product Managers. Success in this role requires category-level command of the data landscape, sharp product instincts, and the ability to elevate the performance of others.

Responsibilities

• Own a product area end to end: define the strategy, translate company and product strategy into a multi-quarter roadmap, and make prioritization and resourcing trade-offs across multiple workstreams
• Be accountable for the commercial outcome of the entire portfolio
• Retain direct ownership of a specific product area: write specs, run discovery, and make product calls
• Define what “good” looks like for the product area
• Review the team’s product decisions and outputs
• Hold the line with senior stakeholders when a capability isn’t ready to ship
• Maintain a view of user needs across data engineering, analytics, and platform personas
• Own the competitive and market view of the data and AI ecosystem
• Hire, coach, and manage the performance of a team of Product Managers
• Run the team’s operating rhythm
• Set the standard for AI-enabled ways of working across the group
• Partner with Engineering and Design leadership on technical strategy and delivery capacity
• Keep GTM, Customer Success, and Marketing informed of what’s shipping
• Present roadmap and trade-offs to stakeholders, leadership, and customers

Requirements

• Demonstrable track record of using AI tools to accelerate product work, and the ability to model, teach, and hold your team to that same standard
• Typically 10+ years in product management
• 3+ years managing Product Managers directly
• Comfortable holding a line under commercial pressure on product quality and team standards
• Able to operate at both strategic and hands-on altitude in the same week
• A systems thinker operating at scale, balancing craft, speed, and commercial impact across multiple workstreams at once
• Deep data literacy, and the ability to hold your team accountable to evidence-based decision-making
• A track record of shipping and scaling B2B products end to end, with demonstrable commercial impact
• People leadership experience: you’ve hired, coached, and managed the performance of Product Managers directly
• Excellent communication, including credibility in front of executive leadership and senior customers
• Real, hands-on exposure to the data ecosystem, sufficient to make credible technical trade-off calls