Overview
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Job Title: VP Product
Department: Product
Reports To: Jonathan
Location: LDN
Entity: Board Intelligence UK Limited
Contract Type: FTE
Will The Role Have Direct Reports: Yes
Date (Month-Year): 30-3-2026
Responsibilities
- Own the commercial success of the portfolio. You are accountable for whether we are building the right things, whether we are building them at the right pace and quality, and whether the wider organisation is set up to convert product investment into revenue, retention, and expansion. You will build and execute 12-month roadmaps that anticipate mission and market needs — not just respond to them — and make the trade-offs behind those decisions clear and defensible.
- Drive go-to-market strategy and execution. Lead cross-functional product launch activities from the product side; ensuring Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success are equipped with the positioning, enablement, and confidence to drive adoption and revenue from every significant release. The work does not end when the feature ships; you are accountable for whether the organisation can make the most of it.
- Evangelise product value internally. Build genuine understanding and belief in what we are building across the leadership population and the wider business. Work with senior leaders and the Leadership Forum to keep product vision visible, credible, and energising, and present clearly and confidently to C-suite stakeholders when the moment calls for it.
- Turn client insight into product reality. Invest significant time with clients; in discovery conversations, R&D partnerships, and strategic account relationships, and translating what you learn into sharp product requirements and operational solutions. Client insight is not something that gets filtered to you; it is something you go and find, and something you know how to act on.
- Establish clear metrics and drive visible progress. Define the success metrics that matter; across adoption, engagement, retention, and revenue impact, and ensure every release delivers visible, measurable progress toward closing gaps and maturing capabilities. Create the rhythms and reporting that make product performance legible to the CPO, the ELT, and the board.
- Lead and develop the Product team. Take direct responsibility for the performance, development, and wellbeing of the product managers and teams in your remit. Set clear expectations, create the conditions for people to do their best work, and build a team culture defined by ownership, curiosity, and accountability. You will be the leader your team looks to for clarity on direction, support through ambiguity, and honest feedback that helps them grow.
- Professionalise the function. Evolve our product operating model: sharpen decision rights, prioritisation governance, and outcome measurement. Develop the team’s craft; in discovery, experimentation, and delivery, and build the processes that allow a growing product organisation to stay coherent and high-performing as it scales.
- Lead the AI transformation of the Product function. Execute the CPO’s strategic direction on AI adoption; translating vision into the conditions, habits, and culture that make it real. Build the forums, rituals, and psychological safety that allow ideas to surface from within the team; support individuals to find their role identity in a fast-evolving landscape; and foster the kind of bottom-up, organic AI innovation that cannot be mandated from the top. Your job is to build confidence — helping every member of the Product team understand not just how the landscape is changing, but how to thrive within it, developing the fluency and adaptability to do their best work in a world that looks different every year.
Qualifications
Required Skills And Experience
Must-have
- Significant senior product leadership experience in B2B SaaS or technology-enabled services businesses.
- Proven experience building and executing 12-month roadmaps that anticipate market and client needs, not just track them.
- A track record of gathering and transforming customer insight into clearly articulated product requirements and operational solutions.
- Demonstrated involvement in go-to-market execution for product launches; you understand what it takes to equip a commercial organisation to drive adoption and revenue, and you take accountability for that outcome.
- Experience presenting product strategy and performance to C-suite executives, with the credibility and clarity to hold the room.
- Confidence operating in a PE-backed or high-growth scale-up environment, where pace and accountability are non-negotiable.
Advantageous
- Hands-on experience with AI-enabled or data-driven products, and a view on how AI is changing the product development discipline itself.
- Prior exposure to enterprise governance, procurement-heavy sales cycles, or complex stakeholder environments.
Benefits
- Pension scheme
- Personal performance bonus
- 26 days holiday each calendar year
- Bupa health & dental cover
- Group life insurance
- EAP
- Cycle to work scheme
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