Senior Director Product Management Core Platform fmd

About the Opportunity

Contentful is looking for a Senior Director Product Management (Core Platform) (f/m/d)

Focus of this role is to lead the team and drive the future strategy that is at the core of Contentful Content Management capabilities notably including:

• Native content primitives and thirdparty data orchestration
• Content APIs and core content management concepts
• Platform AI capabilities and generative AI workloads and pipelines
• Managed serverless content and data workloads

Contentful is committed to being the categoryleading platform for AIdriven content management allowing customers to manage content across brands markets channels and specific audiences at unprecedented levels of granularity and consistency.

Drawing from its APIfirst structured content legacy Contentful is the bestpositioned player to set the standard for how global brands can leverage AI to execute complex global marketing strategies.

Contentfuls Senior Director of Product Content Platform is an experienced professional who previously managed the strategy and execution on PaaS/SaaS API First multi persona data processing product with advanced workflows and pipelines including AI capabilities.

In this position the candidate will also engage in the domain of information management topics like search and retrieval knowledge graphs and ontologies including their relations with AI capabilities like  RAG.

This role leads a team of up to 10 PM and collaborates closely with founders and Clevel executives aligning on the innovation trajectory so as to develop an aligned platform strategy and execution roadmap.

Contentful works following an agile crossfunctional approach to product development so the candidate should be familiar with and effective in this sort of environment.

What to expect 

• Together with the Product leadership and the rest of the management team set own and execute Contentfuls product roadmap along the broader strategic business themes to further accelerate the business growth and establish it as a market leader in product experience and innovation. 
• Lead mentor and scale the product team identifying and fulfilling key hiring needs and areas of the organization that necessitate upskilling. 
• Work closely with the rest of the product development leadership team to drive the adoption of shared best practices across the organization and build/implement the tools needed to ensure worldclass product delivery processes. 
• Drive monetization across existing and new products increasing the paying subscriber user base significantly on an international scale. 
• Engage and communicate effectively with enterprise customers creating strong feedback cycles in the product development process and establishing a customercentric culture in the product organization enabling the team to deliver both worldclass enterprise software solutions and consumergrade user experiences.

What you need to be successful

• Proven experience as a product leader in a successful fastmoving global Enterprise software business where the company has grown rapidly and successfully as a result of your contribution. 
• Highly skilled in deriving insights and decisions from data as well as comfortable relying on product instincts usercentric thinking and business intuition when lacking quantitative tools to evaluate situations of uncertainty. 
• Adaptable leadership style able to flex between direct decisionmaking and consensusdriven processes. 
• Comfortable being handson in driving change and getting into the details of the product development process when required. 
• Excellent communicator capable of motivating and energizing reports and peers. Proven ability to create a highly collaborative working environment. 
• Technically literate able to collaborate closely with engineering counterparts and effectively engage and empathize with the developer community. 
• A holistic thinker who can translate the vision into strategy and execution. 
• Comfortable in a fastpaced environment with competing demands and priorities.

Whats in it for you

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
• Fulltime employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
• Fertility and family building benefits including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
• We value WorkLife balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off including vacation days sick days  education days compassion days for loss and volunteer days
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and inperson events including workshops guest speakers and fun team activities supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties 
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical financial or emotional health
• A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

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