Product Director

• Strategic Vision: Translate the company’s high-level mission into a concrete product strategy and actionable roadmap.
• AI enabled Product Lifecycle Management: Collaborate with the wider R&D leadership team across the suite on our ongoing AI transformation. Champion the end-to-end lifecycle of SAMpeople becoming AI enabled across the SDLC. 
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, hire, and develop a team of Product Managers. Foster a culture of high performance, continuous learning, and user-centricity.
• Commercial & Data Acumen: Build a strong understanding of the commercial strategy within the product team, and what they must do to deliver on it, while continuing to improve NPS. 
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Work closely with Go-To-Market (GTM) teams to ensure product launches are supported by strong marketing, sales enablement, and customer success strategies.

We’re looking for a product leader who thrives in ambiguity and has a proven track record of leading product teams through rapid scale-up and organisational change. You should be knowledgeable and excited about how AI could transform our ways of working, and be open to rapidly learning and iterating to improve how efficiently we can deliver both user and business outcomes. Beyond that, we’d love to see:

• Proven Leadership: Significant and demonstrable experience in Product Leadership. 
• Scale Experience: A track record of successfully managing products through high-growth phases.
• Stakeholder Mastery: Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence C-suite executives and technical leads alike.
• Outcomes Mindset: Comfortable creating clarity of direction for your team through concrete measurable outcomes, for which you put the structures in place to measure and are able to hold your team accountable.
• Resilience & Adaptability: Experience navigating ambiguity and leading teams through change or organizational scaling.

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We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at careers@arbor-education.com.

Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice. 

Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively  encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. 

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Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.