Product Director, New Verticals

Trainline

full-time

Posted on: 9/9/2025

Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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About the role

Setting the vision & strategy for New Verticals & Ads for Product & Tech, aligning with Trainline’s long-term growth and monetisation goals
Building and scaling a portfolio of travel-adjacent products (such as mobility, insurance, attractions) that integrate seamlessly into customers’ journeys
Helping craft the ads platform proposition – from placements and targeting to measurement and monetisation
Driving experimentation and learning, using research, market signals and rapid iteration to test, validate and scale
Partnering cross-functionally with Commercial, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Legal and Data Science to deliver customer-centric, compliant experiences
Leading and inspiring a growing product team (5 Product Managers) and setting high standards across a 60–65+ person organisation
Being the voice of New Verticals & Ads at senior levels, influencing decision-making, securing investment and shaping monetisation strategy

10+ years in product leadership, including senior roles with revenue or monetisation responsibility
Strong commercial acumen with experience in ads, marketplaces, travel, or digital commerce
Track record of scaling new products from MVP to maturity, balancing customer value with revenue impact
Deep understanding of ads ecosystems (contextual advertising, data privacy, build vs. buy decisions)
Proven cross-functional leadership, comfortable partnering with commercial teams, engineers, and senior stakeholders
Strategic thinker with a bias for action; adept at cutting through ambiguity and driving outcomes at pace
Outstanding communication and influence skills, capable of winning hearts and minds at all levels including the Board