Product Director

About the Role

You'll lead a team of product managers and translate company strategy into clear priorities, guide investment and roadmap decisions, and ensure teams deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes. Working closely with engineering and design, you'll drive products from discovery through execution, balancing customer needs, business impact, and technical realities.

As AI continues to reshape the accounting industry, you'll help identify where Karbon can create the most value through AI, automation, and platform capabilities. You'll play a key role in strengthening Karbon's competitive position while ensuring investments are aligned to customer needs and company strategy.

You'll also be responsible for developing product talent, coaching product managers, and raising the quality of product thinking and execution across your teams.

Success in this role requires strong product judgment: the ability to make clear prioritisation decisions, navigate trade-offs, and focus teams on the opportunities that will have the greatest impact for customers and the business.

What You'll Do

• Own portfolio direction and roadmap execution
• Guide your teams in identifying the highest-impact opportunities, making effective trade-offs, and delivering outcomes that strengthen Karbon's long-term position.
• Conduct deep customer research and market analysis to identify where Karbon should invest and where it shouldn't
• Translate customer insights and product signals into clear strategy, roadmap sequencing, and launch decisions
• Work directly with Engineering and Design throughout the full product lifecycle: Opportunity → Build → Launch → Learn → Outcome
• Use AI as your primary product workbench. Prototype ideas, stress-test workflows, pressure-test assumptions before committing resources.
• Define and monitor group-level metrics (adoption, usage, retention, expansion, business impact) and hold yourself accountable for outcomes, not just shipping
• Develop PMs on your team. Strengthen their judgment, decision-making, and ownership of outcomes.
• Align Sales, CS, Support, and Finance on pillar strategy and launches
• Partner with Engineering and Design leadership to ensure quality and pace

Who You Are

• 8+ years of product management experience with a proven track record owning strategic product areas at director or senior level
• Provent leadership experience, you invest in developing PMs, helping them strengthen their judgment, execution, and leadership through regular coaching and constructive feedback
• Deep experience shipping high-impact products end-to-end and holding yourself accountable for real customer and business outcomes
• Strong product judgment. You make clear tradeoffs under pressure. You know what to build and what to kill.
• Hands-on mindset. You draft strategy, shape solutions, stress-test workflows. You don't delegate thinking.
• AI fluency. You use AI daily in your work: prototyping, ideating, analyzing, making faster decisions
• Customer obsession grounded in behavior. You form stron