Director, Product

Overview

As Director, Product, you’ll own the strategy and roadmap for our largest and fastest growing use cases, and product as a whole. You’ll translate market, customer and competitor insight into a clear product vision and orchestrate engineering, research, design, marketing and sales to land it at scale.

You’ll provide leadership to the company as a whole and a growing team of product managers—setting the bar for product craft, and playing a key role shaping company strategy alongside the VP, Product and the wider exec. In this company, product has huge sway about where we go, and this role is where that influence lives.

This is a senior, cross-functional role for someone ready to drive change and accelerate growth in an already successful company. You’ll be playing a defining part in how Voice AI is adopted worldwide.

• Owning the strategy, vision and roadmap—from early discovery and definition through to development and GTM execution.
• Leading cross-functional teams addressing the key challenges with finesse while moving at pace.
• Leading, hiring and growing a high-performing product management team—setting the bar for product craft and driving a culture of boundless curiosity and rigorous execution.
• Scaling our adoption through Product-Led Growth, deepening developer experience, self-serve activation and expansion across our ideal customer profiles.
• Driving our Enterprise sales with frequent interactions with our key customers and prospects.
• Championing Speechmatics externally at events, webinars, and with the C-suite of major companies globally.
• Partnering with the VP, Product and the exec team to shape company strategy, influence investment decisions and represent product at leadership level.
• Cross-functional leader with a proven track record of aligning engineering, research, design, marketing and GTM behind a shared roadmap and shipping at pace, ideally in a tech scale-up environment.
• Turning customer, competitor and market signals into a clear, prioritised roadmap with credibility to motivate and direct execution.
• Relevant domain experience — a solid background in building proprietary machine learning models and/or deep speech experience is highly desired. Hands-on PLG experience scaling a developer-led or self-serve product is a strong advantage. Scaling experience in mid-stage companies is also strongly preferred.
• Results-driven and execution-focused; thrives forging a path through ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments without a large supporting structure.
• Senior people leader with experience building and growing product teams and the ability to partner with exec stakeholders at the leadership level.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not feel you match all of the requirements exactly. The list of requirements is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we’re looking for, but it is not exhaustive. If you are interested in the role, the team, and our mission, we would love to consider your application. We are always open to conversations and look forward to hearing from you.

Speechmatics is the leading expert in Speech Intelligence, using AI and Machine Learning to unlock business value in human speech worldwide. We work with a mix of global companies, and our technology can integrate into customers’ stacks irrespective of industry or use case—making it the go-to solution to harness useful information from speech.

Joining us means working with some of the smartest minds around the world, focused on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest techniques to disrupt the market. We believe in putting people first; we’ll do all we can to help you develop your skills and give you the tools you need to thrive. Our Focus Fridays give you an undisturbed day of focus, offset with Together Tuesdays when we have team meetings, so you’ve always got balance.

We have structured a hybrid approach that includes 2-3 designated office days each week to balance remote work with in-person collaboration.

• Flexible working, regular company lunches, and birthday celebrations.
• Private Medical and Dental insurance for you and your family.
• Global working opportunities, a generous holiday allowance and pension/401K matching.
• Working-from-home allowance for tech or home office equipment (in addition to laptop and accessories).
• Parental leave support (varies by geo) including adoption assistance and reproductive health services.

Speechmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion in the workplace.