Product Engineering Director

Director of Product Engineering | ClearCourse

You have built and led engineering at scale. You know what good looks like. You are probably not being given the mandate to prove it.

ClearCourse is a PE-backed vertical SaaS and embedded payments business, 800 people, seven industry verticals, growing through acquisition and organic expansion across the UK and internationally. We are hiring a Director of Product Engineering and we are looking specifically at senior engineering leaders who are ready for a role with real scope, real accountability and no ceiling on impact.

The role

• Report directly to the CTTO with full SLT and board-level visibility
• Lead 7 Heads of Product Engineering as your direct reports
• Own approximately 130 engineers and QA professionals across all seven verticals
• Co-own group technology strategy at the most senior level
• Drive AI-assisted development adoption across the entire function
• Own headcount planning, capacity, cost visibility and cross-charge accuracy to board level

The verticals in scope

Field Services, Health, Hospitality, Leisure, Retail, Payments and Core Engineering Tools

Requirements

What you bring

• You have led 80+ engineers across multiple product lines, not just managed upwards
• You have restructured teams and made hard calls without losing the people who matter
• You are commercially fluent: cost per engineer, utilisation, delivery ROI are your language
• You have operated in PE-backed or similarly high-accountability environments before
• You know how to drive standardisation across messy, heterogeneous, multi-stack estates

Bonus points for

• Microsoft/.NET portfolio experience at scale
• Post-acquisition engineering integration
• AI-assisted development tooling rollout at function level (Cursor, Claude Code or similar)

Benefits

Why this is worth a conversation

Most roles at this level come with either the title or the mandate. Rarely both. This one has both. You will sit at SLT, own the cost model, co-own strategy, and have a CTTO who is invested in making this hire succeed. The business is acquisitive, the roadmap is ambitious, and the engineering function is yours to shape.

Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential conversation.