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About the Role
Were seeking a strategic and commercially minded Director of Product to lead the vision growth and performance of our USfocused compliance offering (Adaptive Compliance). This is one of our most valuable revenue linesencompassing adaptive content intelligent authoring actionable data and a growing portfolio of emerging products and acquisitions.
In this highimpact role youll shape the future of our Compliance businessensuring it remains differentiated highperforming and deeply aligned with the needs of Compliance buyers across regulated industries. Youll work crossfunctionally across product engineering sales marketing customer experience and executive leadership to deliver measurable impact. The role will require a strong connection with US customer expectations language and regulation.
For more information about our benefits and why you should join learning pool read more here: within the USA (Eastern timezone). Candidates must have eligibility to work without the requirement of visa sponsorship by Learning Pool.
What you will be doing
Roles & responsibilities include:
Strategy & Vision
- Define and evolve the longterm strategy and roadmap for Adaptive Compliance spanning content authoring data and extensibility into adjacent products or acquisitions. This will be in close collaboration with our Chief Compliance Officer and SME team as a strategic lead in decisionmaking positioning and roadmap prioritization.
- Translate this strategy into measurable outcomes that reflect both buyer needs and business value.
- Work closely with our Compliance leadership and SMEs to ensure the product reflects emerging trends in ethical culture behavioral analytics and ESGaligned governance and to ensure good understanding of regulatory buyer and market shifts.
- Work closely with the Chief Product Officer to define the overall product portfolio strategy and contribute to shaping companywide priorities.
- Collaborate with fellow product leaders to ensure coherence across the portfolio aligning on experience design user journeys and shared capabilities to deliver a consistent and highquality experience for our customers.
- You may also be asked to represent the product function within the Senior Leadership Team as needed.
Leadership &
- Lead the crossfunctional product team responsible for Adaptive Compliance working closely with engineering content data and design.
- Collaborate closely with LX Directors to align on matrixed ownership of content design and production ensuring shared goals efficient workflows and clear accountability across functions.
- Own the business case budget and delivery outcomes for the portfolio.
- Own and evolve the Adaptive Compliance narrative to reflect market shifts buyer behavior and product evolution.
- Maintain clear visibility of progress risk and dependencies; ensure strong collaboration across technical and gotomarket teams.
GotoMarket & Customer Success
- Partner with commercial and marketing teams to refine messaging pricing and sales enablement for Compliance buyers.
- In collaborating with the Compliance team act as a visible subject matter expert in key opportunities and industry conversations helping shape how our solutions meet the practical needs of compliance leaders.
- Ground product and content strategy in a deep understanding of compliance buyers constraints objections and decisionmaking framework
- Ensure the sales and CX teams are equipped with compelling stories demos and proof points for US clients.
Growth & Corporate Development
- Play a key role in identifying and evaluating acquisition opportunities that expand our compliance capabilities whether through content tech data or market access.
- Partner with the CPO and M&A leads to assess product fit technical integration and commercial upside.
- Lead postacquisition product integration where relevant ensuring cohesion across the compliance portfolio.
Stakeholder Influence
- Provide regular updates to executive leadership and investors on product performance pipeline and strategic priorities.
- Build strong relationships across the business to align investment navigate tradeoffs and drive adoption of adaptive compliance thinking.
- Stay current on regulatory trends adaptive technologies and the evolving compliance landscape bringing external insight into our internal strategy.
What we are looking for
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Domain & Market Expertise: You will have extensive product leadership experience in regulated sectors compliance technology or learning/data platforms alongside a deep understanding of the US compliance buyer with direct experience shaping or selling solutions in this market.
- Proven track record: You will have a demonstrated history of delivering commercially successful products for B2B buyers with measurable impact on revenue adoption and retention.
- Platform & Methodology Expertise: You will possess deep expertise in adaptive learning methodologies datadriven product development practices and scalable content platform architectures.
- Crossfunctional leadership: You will have led and inspired multidisciplinary teams engineering design content sales and customer success driving alignment influencing executive decisionmaking and removing roadblocks to delivery.
- Commercial fluency: You will be adept at shaping robust business cases evaluating and structuring strategic partnerships and contributing confidently to acquisition and M&A strategies.
- Exceptional communication skills: You will be able to craft and deliver tailored narratives whether technical deepdives commercial pitches or regulatory briefings that resonate with technical commercial and compliance audiences alike.
- Travel readiness: You will have the willingness and ability to travel regularly to the US to gather customer insights support gotomarket activities and strengthen strategic partnerships.
Working at Learning Pool
With over 450 people across seven offices globally the Learning Pool team is filled with people who have a real passion for what they do and a fresh approach to partnering with customers.
Learning Pool is a Platinum Investor in People listed annually in the Great Places to Work for and wins numerous industry awards for our work with clients including the Queens Award for Enterprise (Innovation) and recent Brandon Hall Learning Technologies eLearning Industry Stevie Customer Service and Institute of Customer Service awards. In addition the Group is the only Strategic Leader offering Lower Total Cost of Ownership solutions in the 2022 Fosway Digital Learning 9Grid.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 9th May at 5pm UK time. If you have any queries about your application please email
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