Director of Product Management
Job Summary
Exclaimer is a high-growth SaaS company with 300 colleagues across the UK US Europe and Asia-Pacific. We promote a people-first culture built on fairness inclusion psychological safety and continuous learning. As we evolve into a multi-channel platform for branded business communications we offer employees the opportunity to shape the future of global communicationwhile growing their careers in a culture where curiosity creativity and accountability thrive.
Exclaimer has been recognised by Great Place To Work for our culture of collaboration trust and growth. This certification reflects our commitment to creating an environment where every voice matters and people genuinely enjoy coming to work. See our accreditations to learn more: Great Place to Work UK Great Place To Work USA
- Contribute to and co-own Exclaimers shared product strategy and roadmap alongside fellow Product Directors ensuring alignment across domains.
- Ownthe roadmap and priorities forExclaimers core product offering balancing short-term customer needs with longer-term strategic bets.
- Bring a strong point of view on market direction competitive positioning and emerging technology to shared product leadership discussions.
- Communicate your domains roadmap and rationale clearly to stakeholders connecting it to the broader product strategy and company goals.
- Identifywhere AI and machine learning can create genuine customervalue andlead structured evaluation of those opportunities framing the hypothesis defining what good looks like and distinguishing real opportunity from hype.
- Build and run lightweight POCs yourself whereappropriate using low-code tools prompt engineering or prototyping environments tovalidateideas quickly and reduce engineering risk.
- Stay current on the AI landscape as it applies to SaaS brand governance compliance automation and B2B communication tools and bring relevant insight back to the team.
- Identifyand implement AI tools and practices that sharpen the product process surfacing patterns faster generating specs and validating solutions earlier. Where these ways of workingdontyet exist build them.
- Act as a close trusted partner to Engineering collaborating on problem-solving architecture trade-offs and delivery planning andadapting how you work together as AI changes the shape of discoverybuild and review.
- Facilitate clear well-structured handoffs between discovery and delivery: ensure Engineering teams have the context confidence and clarity they need to build well not just build fast.
- Work with Engineering leadership toidentifywhere technical debt or legacy constraints are limiting product potential and factor this into roadmap planning with transparency.
- Champion the brand governance dimension of Exclaimers platform-ensuring product decisions reinforce our role as the system of record for brand standards and compliance in email communication.
- Develop product capabilities that help customers meet regulatory and brand compliance requirements including legally mandated disclaimers GDPR-relevant disclosures and organisational brand policies enforced automatically at scale.
- Work with enterprise customers and internal stakeholders to understand evolving compliance requirements and translate them into product decisions.
- Build scalable processes to capture analyse and operationalise customer insights across the product lifecycle.
- Partner with Sales Customer Success and Marketing to synthesise signals from the market competitive landscape and customer base into clear product priorities.
- Maintain a sharp understanding of both IT and Marketing buyer personasandtheir distinctoperational needs.
- Leverage engagement analytics and usage data tovalidatehypotheses measure product impactand drive iteration.
- Partner with the Data and Analytics team to improve the quality coverage and reliability of product in what we are tracking and work to close them. Ensure the product team is making prioritisation and experimentation decisions based on evidence that can be trusted.
- Lead end-to-end product development within your domain from discovery through launch adoption and iteration prioritising across a complex backlog and articulating trade-offs openly with the broader product team.
- Define requirements and work collaboratively with UX and Engineering to shape solutions that are technically sound and genuinely usable.
- Collaborate with Marketing and Sales Enablement on product launches ensuring commercial teams can articulate product value to IT andMarketingbuyers.
- Define track and report on product KPIs including activation retention engagement and revenue impact sharing findings transparently across the product leadership team.
- Senior product management leadership experience delivering B2B SaaS products where technical depth compliance governance or platform scalability are central to the value proposition ideally within a peer product leadership structure.
- Demonstrable experience working closely with Engineering teams through periods of technical change platform modernisation AI adoption DevOps transformation or similar.
- Hands-on experience definingvalidating and shipping AI-powered features including rapid proof-of-concept work to test hypotheses before full development.
- Bonus: familiarity with enterprise IT environments (identity providers directory services Microsoft 365 Google Workspace) and/or exposure to compliance or regulatory product requirements (GDPR brand policy enforcement audit trails).
- A collaborative team-first mindset: comfortable contributing to shared decisions and holding your perspective constructively without needing sole ownership of the agenda.
- Strong data literacy comfortable designing experiments interpreting product analytics and making evidence-based prioritisation decisions.
- Outstanding cross-functional communication skills; able to influence and align leaders across Engineering Marketing Sales and Customer Success.
- Commercially astute: you understand SaaS growth levers (ARR NRR churn LTV activation) and connect product decisions to business outcomes.
- Solid technical acumen; able to engage credibly with Engineering and make informed build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions.
- Fluentwith modern product management tools andAI-assisted ways of working.
Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds experiences and identities. We consider all candidates fairly and without discrimination irrespective of ethnicity race religion nationality age gender marital status disability neurodivergence caring responsibilities sexual orientation or gender identity. Were building a culture where everyone feels they belong and can thrive and wed love for you to be part of it. If you require any reasonable adjustments or support through the application or hiring process please email the team in confidence via to let us know.
Required Experience:
Director