Job Title:
Product Director
As a product director, you will lead the development of innovative solutions to revolutionise industries through autonomous drone technology. Your vision and strategy will drive execution of a multi-product portfolio, combining product leadership and hands-on technical stewardship.
About the Role:
This role combines technical expertise with business acumen. You will own the product roadmap, define architectural direction for underlying platforms, and ensure systems are secure, reliable, and scalable.
Key Responsibilities include:
Define and communicate product vision and strategy: Conduct market research, assess competitor offerings, and craft a compelling product vision that aligns with company goals and resonates with enterprise customers. Develop and maintain the product roadmap: Translate the vision into an actionable roadmap, prioritise features based on market needs and user feedback. Lead and grow a globally distributed engineering team: Hire, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of developers and DevOps engineers. Promote a collaborative culture, encourage continuous learning, and foster accountability. Build and own technical architecture: Define and own the long-term technology vision and architecture roadmap. Select appropriate technology stacks and make decisions that affect cost, scalability, and maintainability. Establish DevOps and cloud best practices: Design and automate CI/CD pipelines, version control processes, and environment management to support multiple concurrent development efforts. Oversee infrastructure on AWS, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and cost optimisation. Ensure cybersecurity, compliance, and enterprise readiness: Implement and enforce security protocols and compliance frameworks consistent with enterprise customer requirements. Monitor evolving security threats and update policies accordingly. Drive cross-functional collaboration: Partner with design, hardware, operations, and commercial teams to ensure engineering efforts align with product and business objectives. Foster transparency and effective communication across the organisation, including regular updates to senior leadership and stakeholders. Engage directly with customers and end-users: Collect requirements, run user interviews, observe field operations, and translate feedback into product enhancements. Ensure our software solves real-world problems in mining and industrial settings and clearly communicates improvements to customers. Manage budgets and identify revenue opportunities: Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and look for ways to monetise product features. Champion data-driven decision-making: Establish key metrics to measure product performance, user engagement, and system health. Use analytics to guide priorities and understand the impact of new features.