Director, R&D Information Systems
Gilead Sciences
Product Director, New Verticals
Trainline
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
Tech Stack
Spark
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
Requirements
- 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
