Product Director

Job Description

As Product Director for the Use Case Tribe, you will lead with a clear and ambitious vision for the product organization that turns EcoVadis's strengths into new, market-leading products. The tribe owns our strategic use cases: regulatory due diligence, human rights due diligence, decarbonization, supply chain resilience and sustainable procurement. You will lead and empower a team of Product Managers and Experts, own the tribe's contribution to ARR, and be accountable for launching innovative products that customers buy, adopt and renew.

This is a dual leadership and execution role, not a management-only role. You will set the direction and build the team, and stay hands-on where it matters. We're looking for a high-agency leader who builds before they debate, uses AI to move at a different speed, and takes full ownership of outcomes while creating the space for their people to do the same.

The Use Case Tribe is also expected to be a model for the wider Product organization in how we choose what to build, communicate and work.

Our leadership philosophy

Our leaders are here to guide with a clear and ambitious vision while empowering teams through coaching. You'll play a key role in creating a culture where people are trusted to take accountability, own their growth, and drive impact, all while adapting your approach to meet the moment.

What you'll be doing

• Decide what is worth building and where to invest: Identify the right customer problems and market opportunities, challenge existing assumptions, and turn them into compelling product propositions. 
• Allocate focus and investment: Prioritize across use cases, deciding where to invest, where to wait and where to stop, and make trade-offs on scope, sequencing and resourcing with engineering, design and commercial leaders. 
• Set and champion the vision and roadmap: Define the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for our strategic use cases, and the path from parity to market leadership. Align stakeholders around it, communicating with clarity to all audiences.
• Own the commercial outcome: Be accountable for the tribe's ARR contribution together with frontline leaders. Set targets with the leadership team and track performance through leading and lagging indicators.
• Roll up your sleeves: Step in where the work needs you. That may mean unblocking a squad, sharpening a requirement, building a prototype, rewriting a business case, joining a critical customer or partner conversation, or taking on a use case directly when needed.
• Influence architecture across tribes: Work closely with engineering and product leaders in other tribes on shared platforms, data and integration choices. Make the case for the architectural direction our use cases need, and resolve cross-tribe dependencies.
• Drive launches and go-to-market: Partner with sales, marketing, customer success and partnerships to define positioning, pricing and packaging, enablement and launch plans, and to convert products into pipeline and revenue.
• Stay close to customers and the market: Spend real time with buyers, program owners and co-development accounts. Understand how competitors, regulators and partners are shaping the market, and bring that insight into decisions.
• Lead and grow the team: Hire, onboard and develop Product Managers and Experts through coaching and constructive feedback, so they own outcomes end to end.
• Raise AI and product maturity across EcoVadis: Pioneer new AI-first ways of working in the tribe and share them with other Product teams. Contribute to shared standards, practices and coaching that lift the overall capability of Product Management.

Who you are

• A builder and a leader: you are equally comfortable setting strategy and building a rough prototype that teaches the team something.
• Commercially minded: you connect product decisions to revenue, adoption and retention.
• Strong product sense: you have the judgment to know what's worth building and why.
• An AI-native operator: AI is part of how you work, and you're raising the AI fluency of the people around you.
• Customer-obsessed: you get your conviction from talking to real customers and industry stakeholders, testing assumptions and keeping an open mind.
• A multiplier: you make other people better, hire well and develop talent.
• Biased to speed: you move decisively with incomplete information, know which decisions are reversible, remain open to new information and update fast when you're wrong.
• A strong influencer without needing full control: you see building relationships across tribes as part of the craft.
• An exceptional communicator: you simplify complexity, tell a compelling story, and earn trust with people at all levels, including executives.

AI fluency we hire for

We expect you to operate at the AI-Fluent to AI-Native end of the spectrum. You don't just use AI for one-off tasks. You rebuild core product workflows around it: agents configured with product context, personas and prior research; machine-testable acceptance criteria; reusable workflows shared with the team. As a leader, you will help shift the team from feature author to outcome orchestrator, concentrating on strategic trade-offs and novel bets while agents carry more of the discovery and synthesis.

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years leading Product Managers, with a track record of owning a significant B2B enterprise SaaS portfolio and its commercial results (ARR, revenue growth, adoption or retention).
• Experience launching new products from zero to one and scaling them, with real business and customer outcomes to point to.
• A proven ability to set a product strategy and roadmap, and to bring executives, engineers, sales and customers along with it.
• Strong technical fluency: you can discuss architecture, data and integration trade-offs credibly with engineering leaders, and prototype with AI tooling, LLM APIs and a scripting language (Python / JavaScript or equivalent) where it helps.
• Experience influencing across teams without direct authority, including shared platforms and data.
• Experience working with commercial teams on pricing, packaging and go-to-market.
• Comfort operating in a regulated, data-rich, sustainability or risk domain, or the curiosity and speed to get there fast.
• Fluent English (our primary working language).

Additional Information

In return for your expertise, we offer:

• Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment
• Flexible working hours
• Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing
• Access to professional mental health support
• Referral bonus policy
• Learning and development 
• Sustainability events and community involvement
• Peer recognition program
• Employee-led resource groups
• Hybrid work organization (2 office days per week)
• Working from abroad policy
• Meal Vouchers Card (Swile)  
• Transportation allowance: 50% transportation reimbursement (Navigo travel Pass)
• Private Health Insurance (Mutuelle) 50% paid by the company
• Gymlib subscription
• Jour repos forfait (RTT)
• Hybrid  Monthly Allowance for electricity and Internet
• French social security system and the welfare plan subscribed by the company (Prevoyance Collective)

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your resume, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t meet all criteria? Please apply anyway. We welcome diverse candidates and want to assess your skills and potential contribution to EcoVadis, regardless of your background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want all candidates, including people with disabilities, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse applicants, to feel confident demonstrating their potential. If you require adjustments, such as interview questions in advance, please inform the hiring team.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on characteristics such as color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. To reduce bias in hiring, applicants are encouraged to remove personal details such as photos, marital/parental status, religion, gender, postal code, university name/graduation date, past leave details, and nationality (instead, confirm eligibility to work in the job location).

Our recruitment processes do not include AI systems that make autonomous decisions impacting individuals’ rights without human oversight. Inputs and outputs of the system have been validated by humans and answers are based on algorithms that analyze previous data with which the system has been trained. We use SmartRecruiters as our applicant tracking system and to schedule interviews. Gemini is used to summarize notes from interviews and to refine job descriptions and social media messaging. AssessFirst is used to support talent assessment decisions.

Company Description

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EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page.