Product Director – Public Sector

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the Public Sector product vision, strategy, and multi-horizon roadmap.

• Ensure alignment of the public sector roadmap with Unit4's platform strategy and commercial growth objectives.

• Manage a prioritized product backlog with dedicated engineering resources.

• Establish outcomes, success metrics, release plans, and quality standards.

• Monitor adoption, usage, and customer impact post-launch.

• Act as the internal expert on the Public Sector vertical.

• Provide support to product, marketing, analyst relations, and pre-sales teams with industry knowledge.

• Convert sector insights into product requirements, opportunity assessments, and decisions between building or partnering.

• Develop industry-specific solution blueprints, reference configurations, and pre-built templates.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in finance, HR, procurement, and operations.

• Partner on launch readiness, pricing strategies, packaging, and field enablement.

• Engage with strategic customers and the Public Sector Industry Board to validate roadmap direction and co-create innovations.

• Ensure the roadmap reflects regulatory, security, accessibility, and localization requirements.

• Keep abreast of competitors, including Civica, Visma, Centric, and CGI.

• Collaborate with partners to enhance the value proposition for public sector clients.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated product management experience in developing enterprise software, ERP, or enterprise SaaS for public sector entities.

• Experience in creating products for municipalities, local authorities, or specialized agencies.

• Successfully launched products utilized by public sector finance and operations teams.

• Extensive knowledge of public finance management, public sector accounting, and government budgeting practices.

• Familiarity with public procurement frameworks and ERP requirements, including approval workflows, audit trails, supplier management, and contract compliance.

• Understanding of government security, data residency, and audit expectations for cloud ERP solutions.

• Informed perspective on responsible AI practices for public sector organizations.

• Commercially oriented with an understanding of ARR, win rates, and customer retention metrics.

• Strong communication skills for engaging with senior finance, ICT, and public service leaders.

• Experience in product management within enterprise SaaS platforms.

• Profound understanding of professional services business models, including project-based delivery, utilization, billing, scheduling, and compliance.

• Capability to influence stakeholders without direct authority in a matrixed environment.

• Ability to translate complex industry requirements into scalable product solutions.

• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement abilities.

• Experience with ERP or PSA platforms is a plus.

• Familiarity with mid-market services firms is advantageous.

• Knowledge of AI-driven or data-intensive product environments is desirable.

• Potential for security clearance and background checks for customer projects and sensitive data handling.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible Leave Paid Time Off policy.

• Opportunities for remote work.

• Global Wellbeing Days.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Tools and resources to support professional development.

• Collaborate with talented colleagues, role models, and mentors.

• Engage in sustainability initiatives, including the Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy and Act4Good programme.

• Work in a safe and inclusive environment.

• Access to Employee Resource Groups open to everyone.

• Commitment to equal opportunity.

• Background checks conducted in accordance with local privacy laws.