Director of Product Management

Director of Product Management Overview

This role is focused on leading product management for Diligent’s Ethics and Compliance offering, with a strong emphasis on turning complex operational workflows into intuitive, forward-looking technology. The position is designed for someone who can take a broad product vision and convert it into execution, guiding the evolution of an AI-powered roadmap while working closely with a distributed team across product marketing, engineering, and UX/product design. The right person will be energized by transformational change, cross-functional influence, and the challenge of building products that are both commercially compelling and genuinely valuable to customers.

What you will be responsible for

• Set the product direction for a group of six connected products and lead the effort to combine them into one interoperable AI-enabled Ethics solution over the next 12 months.
• Turn customer feedback, user needs, and market signals into a clear set of priorities and a practical product plan.
• Own the roadmap from end to end, using market intelligence to estimate opportunity, define scope, determine sequencing, and adjust plans as the market responds.
• Work in close partnership with engineering and UX/product design to deliver high-quality releases on time.
• Manage and develop a team of experienced product managers, helping them grow while aligning their work to the broader strategy.
• Lead discovery efforts, define product requirements, and keep backlogs organized across multiple teams.
• Monitor product health through adoption, usage, and outcome metrics, then use those insights to improve the portfolio continuously.
• Collaborate with product marketing and other stakeholders to translate customer insight into scalable, high-impact product solutions.
• Influence cross-functional partners while also providing direct leadership within your own product organization.
• Build products that are attractive from a business perspective as well as useful for customers, with a strong focus on measurable impact.

What you need to bring

• Demonstrated success building, launching, and iterating B2B enterprise SaaS products.
• Experience working on AI assistants and AI agents, including taking them from concept through release and improvement.
• A commercially oriented approach to product management, with the ability to assess success in terms of both customer value and revenue contribution.
• Experience owning and managing a product portfolio.
• A career background that includes exposure to startup, scale-up, and corporate environments.
• Direct experience collaborating with engineering and product design teams in agile delivery settings.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, plus the ability to influence people at all levels of the business.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment where outcomes matter and priorities can shift quickly.

Experience that would strengthen your application

• Knowledge of risk, compliance, due diligence, or a related regulated industry.
• Familiarity with international regulatory environments or third-party risk ecosystems.
• Experience with APIs, platform integrations, or ecosystem-based products.
• Background in launching brand-new products or taking early-stage products and developing them further.
• Experience combining separate products into a more unified platform while balancing the needs of current customers with the need to attract new ones.

About the team and company

Diligent is positioned as a leader in AI-driven governance, risk, and compliance software, supporting more than one million users and hundreds of thousands of board members. Its platform gives practitioners, executives, and boards a consolidated view of their governance and risk landscape so they can manage risk more effectively, strengthen resilience, and make better decisions faster.

The company describes itself as a place for people who think boldly, move quickly, and are excited by the possibilities of AI. Teams work on projects ranging from large language model-enabled systems to workflow redesign, with a strong emphasis on curiosity, experimentation, and continuous learning. The organization presents itself as a global community focused on creating positive change and building technology that helps make the world more sustainable, equitable, and better governed.

What Diligent offers

• A culture that encourages creativity and innovative thinking.
• A flexible working environment.
• Global days of service.
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Meeting-free days to support focused work.
• A generous time-off policy.
• Wellness programs.
• Access to a worldwide network of teams and office hubs, including locations in New York City, Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• A strong commitment to diversity, supported through employee resource groups and educational resources.
• An inclusive hiring approach that considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal history, where permitted by law.
• Support for reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during the application process.

Working arrangement

This position follows a hybrid model. If you are based within commuting distance of one of the company’s office locations, you should expect to be onsite at least half of the time. The company says that in-person time is important for collaboration, innovation, teamwork, and building community.

Additional information

The company states that it is a drug-free workplace and that it is an equal opportunity employer. It also notes that it does not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics under applicable law and provides contact details for accommodation requests during the hiring process.

For recruitment agencies, the company asks that unsolicited resumes are not sent to its jobs inbox, employees, or other locations, and it says it is not responsible for fees associated with unsolicited submissions.

Applicants are invited to submit an application through the online form, which requests standard details such as contact information, resume, cover letter, address, work eligibility status, desired salary in GBP, notice period, and responses to screening questions about AI product experience, prior employment with Diligent or a subsidiary, family connections at the company, and any competitor history.

The company also notes that visa sponsorship may be available for selected roles depending on business needs and the specific requirements of the position, and that eligibility is assessed individually rather than assumed for every opening.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

Visa Sponsorship May be