checkatrade - VP Product

• Set and own the multi-year product vision and roadmap, turning our growth ambitions into a clear, prioritised strategy the whole business can get behind. • Lead, coach and grow all our Product Managers, building a culture of ownership, curiosity and pace so they can do their best work. • Drive rigorous prioritisation and planning, balancing short-term commercial impact with long-term platform investment. • Lead the use of AI and machine learning across the product, from search and matching to personalisation and automation, and find where it makes a real difference to experience and efficiency. • Work closely with Marketing, Engineering, Design, Data and Commercial so product decisions rest on real user needs and real business outcomes. • Represent the product function in board and investor conversations, explaining the roadmap, progress and trade-offs clearly and confidently. • A solid background in senior product leadership: you've owned product direction end to end and built strong PM teams from the ground up. • Proven experience in a two-sided marketplace or platform business, and a good feel for supply and demand, network effects and what it takes to grow one. • Experience building and shipping AI-powered product features from concept to production, with a clear view of where the technology adds value and where it's just noise. • Strong commercial sense, and the ability to connect product decisions to revenue, retention and growth. • Communication that works as well with a cross-functional team as it does in a boardroom. • (Don't self-select out because you don't tick every box. We'd rather meet you.) • 💰 Competitive salary, annual bonus & equity scheme • 🩺 Health, wellbeing and learning support • 🚲 Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme, Cycle Scheme • 🎂 Birthday/special day leave, buy & sell holiday scheme • ❤️ 1 week's paid charity leave, and more • Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners • 45-minute interview with our CEO • Scenario-based interview with senior leaders across People, Consumer, Technology and Leads (120 minutes, split in two) • Final stage: case study presentation and interview with our CEO, Chief People Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer • Not this one? Stay close anyway. Join the Talent Community and we'll ping you the second something better fits.