Toptal

Senior Director of Product, AI

Toptal

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • Own the overall strategy and roadmap for our AI platform and AI-driven products, ensuring the platform accelerates product delivery while AI capabilities across talent and client experiences drive measurable business value.
  • Provide thought leadership, strategic insight, and clear communication (written and verbal) to your team and the rest of the organization on your product’s strategy and roadmap.
  • Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team.
  • Guide the prioritization of initiatives as the team scales.
  • Lead and grow a team of amazing Product Managers, helping them do the best work of their careers.
  • Help define and evolve Toptal’s Product Management practice, including how AI products are discovered, validated, launched, and scaled.
  • Work cross-functionally with other teams such as Executives, Operations and Engineering to ensure AI platform initiatives align with business objectives, operational needs.
  • Accomplish work objectives through leading and supervising other Toptal team members within the function or subfunction (or on the Product team).
  • Establish objectives and initiatives for the team, recommend the team’s structure and jobs, and organize, assign, delegate, oversee, and monitor work.
  • Coach and mentor team members, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and implement performance improvement plans, if needed.
  • In the first week, expect to:
  • Work to get up to speed with how the organization runs, including how our objectives, RACIs, and other operational frameworks work.
  • Begin learning Toptal’s platform architecture, internal tooling, and current AI initiatives and capabilities.
  • In the first month, expect to:
  • Become acquainted with your product area, the product goals, and those you will partner with.
  • Work cross-functionally and with Product Managers to refine your product’s strategy, organize and prioritize your high-level roadmap and backlog.
  • Start collaborating closely with your Product teams.
  • In the first three months, expect to:
  • Have a very strong understanding of how the Product Management function and all related external functions are working together.
  • Take full ownership of the technology products domain, its strategy, and roadmap.
  • Garner the trust of your peers and the individuals with whom you’re working most closely.
  • In the first six months, expect to:
  • Have built your team of world-class Product Managers.
  • Exemplify the ability to inspire and mentor the teams you’re working with.
  • Uplevel the team’s ability to brainstorm, collaborate, and execute materially.
  • Have chartered a clear path for scaling the team and the impact the Product organization can deliver.
  • In the first year, expect to:
  • Deliver on your roadmap priorities and promises.
  • Ensure your team has an incredible record of building impactful products in a timely and elegant fashion.
  • Work cross-functionally to scale your team to meet the growing needs of our business and our users.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Economics).
  • At least 10 years of proven software Product Management experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience leading other Product Managers.
  • Prior experience working as a Software Engineer is a strong plus.
  • Experience leading AI-enabled products, with a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes.
  • Comfortable working with SQL or spreadsheets to analyze data, as well as conducting research with internal and external users.
  • Ability to creatively craft solutions through data and a user-centric approach.
  • Be meticulous and have a high bar for quality when writing user stories, brainstorming technical approaches, and testing a feature before it is released.
  • Be humble, willing to learn, and do whatever is needed to help us accomplish our goals.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience using agile development methodologies with globally distributed teams and the ability to keep up with a fast-paced and global company.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
  • You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.
Benefits
  • This is a remote position. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Product ManagementAI-enabled productsSoftware EngineeringSQLData analysisUser story writingAgile development methodologiesTechnical approachesFeature testingUser-centric solutions
Soft skills
LeadershipCommunicationMentoringCollaborationCreativityAttention to detailAdaptabilityProblem-solvingStrategic insightTeam building