Director of Product

Location: Cambridge Office, United Kingdom

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Darktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity that keeps organizations ahead of the changing threat landscape every day. Founded in 2013, Darktrace provides the essential cybersecurity platform protecting nearly 10,000 organizations from unknown threats using its proprietary AI.

The Darktrace Active AI Security Platform™ delivers a proactive approach to cyber resilience to secure the business across the entire digital estate – from network to cloud to email. Breakthrough innovations from our R&D teams have resulted in over 200 patent applications filed. Darktrace’s platform and services are supported by over 2,400 employees around the world. To learn more, visit http://www.darktrace.com.

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Director of Product to play a key role in shaping our product capability within our Platform Services division.

This is an opportunity for a highly experienced product leader who brings strong product craft, external perspective, and a passion for driving impact at scale. You’ll lead a small team of product professionals, while also influencing product strategy, ways of working, and outcomes across a broader set of teams and senior stakeholders.

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of working two days per week from our Cambridge office.

What you’ll be doing

• Own and evolve your product area, developing a deep understanding of customer needs, use cases, and value drivers

• Ensure the product delivers maximum value through strong feature design, performance, and customer enablement

• Lead, coach, and develop a small team of Product Managers/Product Owners, building a high-performing and collaborative environment

• Lead through influence, partnering with senior stakeholders to improve product practices and outcomes across Platform Services

• Bring fresh thinking and external best practices to continuously raise the bar on product strategy and execution

• Work closely with Engineering to shape and deliver a high-quality product roadmap

• Partner with Product Marketing and go-to-market teams to ensure clear, compelling product positioning

What we’re looking for

• Significant product management experience, ideally within Enterprise SaaS

• A track record of applying learnings from different environments to improve product outcomes

• Ability to drive alignment at senior levels through influence

• Experience leading and developing product talent (even within smaller teams)

• Strong collaboration across Engineering, UX, and commercial teams

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment 

Benefits:

• 23 days’ holiday + all public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years of service,

• Additional day off for your birthday,

• Private medical insurance which covers you, your cohabiting partner and children,

• Life insurance of 4 times your base salary,

• Salary sacrifice pension scheme,

• Enhanced family leave,

• Confidential Employee Assistance Program,

• Cycle to work scheme.

Darktrace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Darktrace is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please contact your Talent Partner.