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Job Role: Product Engineering Director Location: Hybrid, work from home, with travel globally as required Reporting To: Digital Products Director (CDIO)

Role Overview

Our global client in the media and gaming industry is building out a digital services platform to support innovation and excellence across the lifecycle of interactive content. As a key player in this space, they partner with some of the world’s most recognisable entertainment brands, helping them stay lean, agile, and focused on delivering world-class user experiences.

We’ve been engaged to help them hire a Product Engineering Director to lead a business-critical digital portfolio supporting their localisation capabilities. This newly created leadership role requires a pragmatic and hands-on engineering leader to help drive delivery, shape best practices, and work as a key partner to the product leadership team. You’ll bring a blend of technical strategy and delivery excellence, with the ability to guide architecture, engineering, and team culture to deliver real-world value.

This role is designed to work in close partnership with a new Product Director who owns the product vision and go-to-market strategy. Your focus will be technical execution, product architecture, and delivering a world-class internal and client-facing experience, including the strategic use of AI and automation.

We’re looking for someone who can roll up their sleeves and lead from the front — someone with a solid technical background, an understanding of product management, and a passion for building robust, scalable software. Long-term, you’ll help shape technical consistency across multiple product areas within a global group, bringing together people, process, and platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Architectural & Technical Leadership:

Own the core technical architecture for localisation products, making key build-versus-buy decisions and driving a clear technical strategy to deliver the best outcomes for users.

Define and implement a future-focused workforce strategy, including mindset shifts, new operating procedures, and team structure changes. Coach and mentor individuals while embedding AI as a human-in-the-loop solution.

Driving Key Business Outcomes:

Ensure technical delivery supports the following goals:

• Velocity: Improve delivery speed through automation and streamlined workflows, including AI-driven processes.
• Quality: Deliver customer outputs right the first time.
• Convenience: Ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience.
• Keeping Current: Continuously assess and evolve tech stacks to reduce technical debt and adopt emerging innovations like AI.

Product Lifecycle Ownership:

Lead cross-functional teams from ideation through to launch and continuous optimisation, ensuring a data-driven, iterative product development approach.

Oversee product budgets, balance investment across the portfolio, and apply FinOps principles to ensure efficient use of cloud infrastructure (GCP).

Embed a DevOps culture, automate delivery pipelines, and use metrics to improve time-to-value and reliability.

Communication & Business Partnership:

Translate technical strategies into clear, engaging narratives for business stakeholders and exec audiences. Champion engineering best practices across teams.

Required Experience

• 5–10+ years in a technical or engineering leadership role, ideally full-stack.
• Experience delivering and maintaining AWS-based solutions.
• Background in AI-driven product development, including ML and Google Vertex AI.
• Proven FinOps experience (GCP or AWS).
• Exposure to localisation or games development is a bonus.
• Track record in operations, incident management, and building technical resilience.
• Strong communicator, comfortable explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience supporting GTM and product strategy execution alongside a Product Director.

Desired Attributes

• Empathy: Listens and leads with understanding — towards both team and customers.
• Self-Control: Maintains composure when under pressure.
• Adaptability: Open to change and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Optimism: Positive, can-do mindset that inspires others.
• Self-Actualization: Committed to personal growth and encouraging continuous learning in others.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Media and Computer Games

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