Senior Director of Product
Spotted Zebra
Senior Director of Product
Spotted Zebra
Skills-based talent management platform for enterprises
Spotted Zebra · United Kingdom (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-03
Workplace: remote
Department: Product
At Spotted Zebra, we're building something we genuinely believe in: an AI-native end-to-end hiring platform that helps the world's leading organisations find the right people, faster and fairer than ever before. In short, we're making hiring something everyone loves again - both talent teams and candidates alike.
We're a multi-award-winning Series A company giving talent leaders the solution they've always needed. Skills science native. AI-amplified. Built by people who've lived and breathed TA and knew there had to be a better way.
Spotted Zebra brings Interview Intelligence, Skills Assessments, and AI Interview Agent together in one powerful platform, designed for intelligence and action. One powerful agent and assistant: Spot. Working the way talent teams need it to, always with humans in control.
The result is talent teams get the insight to predict who will succeed, the speed to move before competitors, the governance to defend every hiring decision, and the capacity to focus on the human moments that matter most.
But our product is only part of the story. Spotted Zebra isn’t just building an AI-native product; we’re building an AI-native company. AI is changing how we build, sell, support customers and make decisions. We use it to move faster, stay closer to customers, reduce unnecessary processes, and give talented people more leverage in their roles.
That means joining Spotted Zebra isn’t just a chance to work on the future of hiring. It’s a chance to help shape what the future of work looks like inside a scaling company: compact, ambitious teams using AI to collaborate better, make decisions quickly, and deliver meaningful impact at speed.
The FTSE100 and Fortune500 companies trusting us include British Airways, NIQ, Domino's, Lidl, Merlin Entertainments, AWE, United Utilities, and Paramount. We've been named Personnel Today's Talent Acquisition Supplier of the Year 2025, secured gold across multiple industry awards, and were recently named on the UK Top 100 Startups List.
But what we’re most proud of is the team. People join Spotted Zebra because the mission is real, the product is genuinely exciting, and the opportunity to shape the future of hiring is huge. What makes it special is the way we work: smart, committed people in compact teams where trust is high, decisions happen quickly, and everyone has the chance to make a visible impact.
If that sounds like the kind of place you want to do your best work - read on.
Fun fact: A group of zebras is called a dazzle – and ours truly is dazzling!
We create a culture in which our team thrives and gallops ahead.
As we roam free and empower our dazzle, we gallop ahead on the journey to achieving our goals. We understand this journey will pose challenges along the way, yet we brighten the trail with our positive mindset and encouragement of others. The dazzle continuously moves, gaining knowledge and skills so that we can graze new grounds.
You’ll join Spotted Zebra at a defining moment, with the opportunity to turn an ambitious product vision into the company that defines AI-native hiring. As Senior Director of Product, you’ll work closely with the CEO to set the direction across Product and Design, shape the priorities of the wider Product, Design and Engineering organisation, and translate rapid advances in AI, deep customer insight and commercial opportunity into a focused strategy that wins. You’ll influence the company’s biggest bets, help take our product into new global markets, and tell a compelling product story to enterprise customers, partners, investors and the board.
You’ll also build the organisation and operating model capable of delivering that ambition. You’ll lead and develop a growing, high-performing Product and Design organisation, building on the five crews already in place, each with dedicated Product Management and support from specialist Design SMEs. You’ll embed AI-augmented ways of working that materially increase our speed and quality, and create a close partnership with Engineering so strategy, discovery and delivery move as one. You’ll stay close to customers and hands-on with the work when it matters, while creating the clarity, culture and capability Spotted Zebra needs to scale without losing the pace, ownership or product craft that makes us special.
Key responsibilities:
1. Product & Design organisation leadership - Own and lead both the Product and Design function, providing strategic direction, clear priorities, and a high-performance culture across all teams. Directly manage and coach high-performing individual contributors, being a trusted thinking partner and raising the bar for quality and craft. Stay hands-on where it matters — rolling up your sleeves on strategy, discovery, or delivery when the work calls for it. Own organisational design, budget and headcount planning across Product and Design, ensuring the function has the structure, capability and investment needed to deliver the company’s ambitions.
2. Engineering influence & collaboration - While Engineering has its own leadership, act as a senior cross-functional partner who shapes how Product, Design, and Engineering work together. Influence technical roadmap prioritisation, drive alignment on delivery trade-offs, and ensure the Engineering organisation has the strategic context it needs to make great decisions. Step in to provide leadership continuity across the broader build organisation when needed.
3. AI Augmented Delivery (AAD) - Set the standard for AI-Augmented Delivery across Product and Design, building on the five crews already in place, each with dedicated Product Management and support from specialist Design SMEs. You will embed AI throughout strategy, discovery, research, prototyping, design, specification and decision-making, enabling crews to move from customer insight to high-quality implementation with greater speed, accuracy and ambition. This will be a deeply hands-on part of the role: you will model the behaviours and tooling you expect from others, develop the team’s capability, and evolve the operating model so that AI increases individual leverage and organisational capacity without compromising product craft, customer understanding or enterprise-grade quality.
4. Talent attraction through personal brand - Use your own professional profile and reputation to attract exceptional talent to Spotted Zebra. Whether through an active social media presence, published writing, speaking engagements, or thought leadership in the product and AI community, you will help put Spotted Zebra on the map as a destination for ambitious, talented people.
5. Global product strategy - Define and champion the long-term product vision across all markets. Lead the expansion of our product strategy to serve enterprise customers in the United States and other international markets, ensuring that global growth needs - from regulatory requirements to local customer behaviours - are embedded in how we build and position our product. Champion the voice of the customer and user at executive level, and ensure product strategy remains closely aligned with commercial priorities through strong partnerships with Sales, Customer Success and Marketing.
6. Executive leadership & CEO partnership - Serve as a true strategic partner to the CEO, stepping in to represent the company and lead across Product, Design, and Engineering during key moments such as fundraising, board engagement, and major partnership discussions. Bring the product and technology perspective into investor conversations, presenting with confidence on roadmap, vision, and competitive positioning. Represent Spotted Zebra externally with prospective enterprise customers, at industry events, and across the press and analyst community.
7. Cross-functional ownership beyond Product & Design - Take accountability for functions that sit at the boundary of product and go-to-market, including Solutions Architecture. Ensure these teams are well-integrated with Engineering and customer-facing colleagues, are resourced appropriately, and contribute effectively to both pre-sales and post-sales success.
8. Scaling through fundraising & growth stages - Bring proven experience of navigating and shaping businesses through funding rounds. Help the company build the operating foundations, processes, and team structures needed to sustain rapid growth without losing speed or quality, while supporting the CEO in building a compelling narrative for investors. We are looking to double the size of the team over the next 6–12 months, and you will play a central role in making that growth successful. Lead organisational design decisions as the company scales, including when to hire, restructure or introduce greater specialisation, and proactively identify and manage strategic risks to delivery, growth and product quality.
🤝 Meaningful share options
🏥 Health insurance
💰 Enhanced pension
🍼 Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
🏖️ 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
🏠 Remote-first
💻 Work from home budget
🧠 L&D budget
🦷 Dental cover
👀 Eye-care support
🏢 Co-working space budget
🧘 Wellbeing allowance
✈️ Travel insurance
🚗 Electric car scheme
Beyond our core benefits, you'll get access to the latest AI-powered tools and technologies, giving you everything you need to do your best work.
At Spotted Zebra, we welcome people of all stripes. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and an inclusive and diverse culture.
We believe that each and every one of us possesses an extraordinary set of skills and abilities, waiting to be discovered, nurtured, and harnessed for the benefit of all.
We are a team. And no matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability, we will empower you to unleash your superpower to help us create a world where everyone is able to utilise their unique blend of skills and abilities to contribute to the greater good.
Everyone is unique and we encourage you to let us know in your application, or share with your recruiter directly, if there is anything we can do to make your interview experience with us more comfortable and positive.
At Spotted Zebra, everyone is welcome. So even if you don't meet all the requirements, we would still love to hear from you. We are always keen to speak with people who are passionate about our mission.
🦓 Ready to gallop ahead with us? We're a team that moves fast, thinks big, and isn't afraid to challenge how things have always been done. If you're excited about using AI and skills science to transform how the world hires, apply now and a member of our dazzle will be in touch!
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Skills-based talent management platform for enterprises
Spotted Zebra offers a skills-based workforce management platform for large enterprises. The platform uses AI, assessment science, and human expertise across two modules—Interview Intelligence and Assessment—to support hiring, reskilling, succession planning, and general workforce management, with features like AI-powered role skills profiling, blended assessments, an AI interview notetaker, and instant interview evaluations, and it can integrate with HR systems such as Greenhouse. It differentiates itself by prioritizing skills over job titles or degrees, aiming to reduce bias, widen the talent pool, and improve hiring outcomes for enterprise clients. Its goal is to align 10 million people with opportunities by 2030, supported by ongoing funding to scale the product and expand into new markets.
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