Director, Product Management

The role

You will lead the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of Stewardship Intelligence, a core data product. You will lead both Product Management and Research teams to provide meeting, executive compensation, corporate governance, and proxy-voting intelligence.

What you will do

• Own and refine the product vision, strategy, roadmap and prioritisation for the Stewardship Intelligence portfolio.
• Lead, develop and organise the Product Management and Research teams.
• Improve dataset coverage, methodology, quality, traceability and timeliness.
• Partner with Engineering and UX to build and launch product experiences and Data-as-a-Service capabilities.
• Build understanding of the needs of institutional asset managers, stewardship and governance professionals, compensation advisers, consultants, and corporate issuers.
• Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Sales and Customer Success to support product positioning, packaging, launch, and adoption.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in Product Management, Research Operations, Data Products or a related discipline.
• Experience leading teams and setting strategy for complex products or datasets.
• Mandatory domain experience in stewardship, proxy voting, corporate governance, executive compensation, investor relations or a closely related capital-markets domain.
• Success owning and delivering B2B SaaS, data or intelligence products from discovery through roadmap execution and launch.
• Experience leading research or data operations teams responsible for large-scale structured datasets and enterprise-grade quality standards.
• Track record of improving manual, people-intensive processes through operating-model redesign, automation or AI.
• Exceptional communication, analytical judgement and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Data-as-a-Service, data feeds, data licensing or other data-product business models.
• Hands-on experience applying LLMs, machine learning or intelligent automation to regulatory filings and other unstructured documents.
• Familiarity with data provenance, research methodology, quality frameworks and governance of externally sourced data.
• Experience in or working closely with organisations comparable market-intelligence providers.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Global days of service
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Meeting free days
• Generous time off policy
• Wellness programs

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship may be available for select positions based on business needs and specific role requirements.

About the company

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions. The company helps more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members clarify risk and elevate governance.