Product Director

Arbor Education

Drive product strategy and leadership at Arbor for SAMpeople, an online HRIS and ATS system. Collaborate with teams to enhance product features and user experience.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Core Competencies

Role fit

Core Competencies

Use this summary to align your resume positioning with the role.

Demonstrates expertise in Product Leadership, driving AI-enabled Product Lifecycle Management, and fostering high-performance teams. Proven ability to translate strategic vision into actionable roadmaps while ensuring alignment with commercial strategies and cross-functional collaboration.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Product LeadershipAI Enabled Product Lifecycle ManagementTeam Leadership & MentorshipCommercial Strategy UnderstandingStakeholder Communication

ATS Keywords

Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills

Product StrategyAI TransformationSDLC ManagementData AnalysisPerformance Metrics

Soft Skills

CommunicationInfluencingResilienceAdaptabilityTeam Accountability

Tools & Technologies

Go-To-Market StrategiesSales Enablement ToolsCustomer Success Platforms

Industry Keywords

High-Growth PhasesUser-CentricityContinuous LearningNPS Improvement

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
Dog friendly offices!