Product Engineering Director

Job Description

Director of Product Engineering | ClearCoursen

You have built and led engineering at scale. You know what good looks like. You are probably not being given the mandate to prove it.

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ClearCourse is a PE-backed vertical SaaS and embedded payments business, 800 people, seven industry verticals, growing through acquisition and organic expansion across the UK and internationally. We are hiring a Director of Product Engineering and we are looking specifically at senior engineering leaders who are ready for a role with real scope, real accountability and no ceiling on impact.

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• Report directly to the CTTO with full SLT and board-level visibility

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• Lead 7 Heads of Product Engineering as your direct reports

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• Own approximately 130 engineers and QA professionals across all seven verticals

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• Co-own group technology strategy at the most senior level

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• Drive AI-assisted development adoption across the entire function

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• Own headcount planning, capacity, cost visibility and cross-charge accuracy to board level

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The verticals in scope: Field Services, Health, Hospitality, Leisure, Retail, Payments and Core Engineering Tools.

nWhat you bringn

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• You have led 80+ engineers across multiple product lines, not just managed upwards

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• You have restructured teams and made hard calls without losing the people who matter

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• You are commercially fluent: cost per engineer, utilisation, delivery ROI are your language

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• You have operated in PE-backed or similarly high-accountability environments before

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• You know how to drive standardisation across messy, heterogeneous, multi-stack estates

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nBonus points forn

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• Microsoft/.NET portfolio experience at scale

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• Post-acquisition engineering integration

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• AI-assisted development tooling rollout at function level (Cursor, Claude Code or similar)

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nWhy this is worth a conversationn

Most roles at this level come with either the title or the mandate. Rarely both. This one has both. You will sit at SLT, own the cost model, co-own strategy, and have a CTTO who is invested in making this hire succeed. The business is acquisitive, the roadmap is ambitious, and the engineering function is yours to shape.

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Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential conversation.

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