Director of Product Management

The Opportunity

Brightflag is seeking an ambitious, highly motivated Director of Product Management to work with our Dublin based Product Management and Engineering teams and VP of Product to ensure that product development aligns with business strategy and meets customer needs. As a key decision-maker within the organisation, the Director of Product Management will play a critical role in shaping the direction and vision of a company’s product roadmap. You will need to be an experienced product manager and a strong leader who is capable of steering the team toward its product goals while ensuring it stays aligned with the roadmap and strategy.

The ideal candidate will have a background in delivering B2B products in an Enterprise SaaS environment in a senior product management role growing into a Director of Product Management.

This is a great opportunity to work in a high growth start-up environment delivering solutions to large Enterprises that have significant legal spend using our best in class AI. You should have a strong interest in mission-critical enterprise technology, particularly in web application technology, have a deep attention to detail and ability to define and abstract complex business processes.

What You Will Be Doing

• Aligning product strategy with business goals — Focused on our e-Billing product line ensuring that the product goals align with the overall business goals and company strategy
• Driving product discovery, market research, and competitor research — Ensuring that the team performs the requisite product discovery and research activities so that the product meets customer needs and provides value
• Driving innovation and new product development initiatives — As a senior leader in the product organisation, you will be responsible for driving innovation and research. This could involve adopting new modern ways of working and software development frameworks, analysing the market and competition, and introducing emerging technologies, user interfaces, and robust capabilities to the product suite, among other activities
• Communicating product vision and strategy to stakeholders — In addition to stitching together the product vision, as the the director of product management you will also share our vision and strategy with diverse stakeholders, regularly report on the status of development, and keep stakeholders informed of the product organisation’s strategy
• Along with the VP of product, be responsible for working with C-suite to align the product vision with the larger company vision. Communicate the product strategy, roadmaps, and metrics to external stakeholders and customers.
• Lead the team in deriving the roadmap and release plans from the vision and strategy and translate them into actionable items
• Responsible for communicating the voice of the market and customer to the team and stakeholders
• Interfaces with other directors of cross-functional teams, such as engineering, sales, and marketing
• As a leader, needs to have an eye on the goals at all times to ensure the team achieves the timelines and roadmap committed to the customer
• Communicate the product vision and strategy and work with cross-functional team leaders and drive consensus across different stakeholder teams and drive alignment at every step
• You will have the opportunity to be hands-on as you will work within a Scrum squad for the first 6 months as Product Manager, responsible for delivery of features on the roadmap for that squad (due to temporary leave of a Product Manager)

Skills & Experience

To be successful in the role, you need:

• 8+ years’ progressive experience as a product manager growing into a Director of product management role. With at least the last 3 years as a senior member of the product team.
• Background in successfully delivering B2B SaaS software products for Enterprises, preferably in the Legal, Telecoms or Finance markets
• Experience with financial analysis and product pricing
• Experience of operating within an Agile environment
• Experience developing AI products
• Highly collaborative with excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage and influence stakeholders at various levels and in different teams (executive leadership, go-to-market, engineering, etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to develop effective solutions to meet business needs
• Previous experience in thinking critically about strategy and see the big picture while creating and executing plans
• Proven ability to mentor, develop and lead product team members

The following are a bonus!

• Experience with UX a plus
• Experience in the Legal domain is an advantage

Life @ Brightflag

We’re growing fast and so is the experience we can offer you:

• A huge opportunity to make a real impact, to shape what we do and where we are going.
• The exposure and challenge you need to learn, grow and progress your career in a rapidly growing scale-up.
• Complex technical and business problems to solve and the trust and autonomy you need to go and solve them.
• A sound, helpful team, in a friendly, values-driven and inclusive environment.
• Competitive salary.
• Share options.
• 25 days holidays + 4 company ‘Reset’ days throughout the year.
• Comprehensive health insurance, life insurance and long term illness/income protection.
• Fully flexible work location and work patterns so you can balance life at home with life at work - come to the office, work at home… or enjoy a blend of both at your discretion.
• Learning subsidy of €2,000/US$2,200/AU$3,200 annually, to spend as you wish, plus study and examination leave where applicable. Our ‘bookworm’ program also enables you to order a book a month.. on us!
• Access to Pluralsight - the on demand learning platform for tech teams.
• The Tax-Saver or Cycle-to-Work Scheme.
• Wellbeing program & stipend.
• Home office set-up supports.

We are a diverse and inclusive bunch of people. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who make every day count and strive for constant improvement. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

Location & Eligibility

This role offers a flexible work location across Ireland. Whether that be in the office, remote from anywhere in Ireland most weeks, or a mix of office/remote work, you choose what works best for your lifestyle. This role will be based in our Dublin office at least once a month.

Your time is valuable. To help with your application, we advise that regrettably we cannot offer work permit sponsorship/ self sponsorship for this role.

About Brightflag

Hello, We’re Brightflag - one of the fastest-growing tech startups in the legal world - we’re on a mission to transform legal operations. Our patented AI-powered software combined with a best-in-class Customer Success team empowers corporate legal teams to do better, no matter the starting point. Our SaaS platform was the first to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to legal operations management and has invested more than 100,000+ hours in its development. Using Brightflag, corporate legal teams achieve visibility into their operations, streamline internal workflows, and engage with outside counsel more efficiently. You can learn more about Brightflag Here.