Product Director

**Company Description**
Meet Unit4. With over 40 years of heritage, we’re an agile, fast growing, Cloud company that is on a mission to redefine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for mid-market people-centric organisations.

With our innovative, self-driving, adaptive and intuitive software, our customers can spend more time on meaningful high-value work.

At the heart of what we do lies a simple yet profound purpose: Improve how people work by focusing on what truly matters. — A powerful statement that enables different priorities for different people.

We’re shaping how work should feel, and we empower our people by providing them with the right tools to achieve the autonomy they need - it's what makes us unique.

We are seeking a mission-driven and strategic Director of Industry Product Management to lead the development of ERP capabilities tailored to the unique needs of the public sector, nonprofit organizations, and higher education institutions. This role is ideal for a product leader who combines industry insight with hands-on product management skills, and who is passionate about building solutions that help mission-focused organizations operate more efficiently and effectively.

You will work closely with horizontal product managers (e.g., Financials, HR, Procurement etc) to ensure our platform delivers end-to-end support for the operational, compliance, and funding models specific to these sectors.

You will research, drive requirements, oversee design and drive launch for industry specific solutions. You will bring new products to market to drive further cross sell into the existing customer base and champion the development of new capabilities that will increase win rate and customer satisfaction with our core offerings. You will drive thought leadership in what the next generation of automation solutions can bring to the professional services space to help our clients compete and win.

Key Responsibilities

**Industry Strategy & Roadmap Alignment**
- Define and maintain a comprehensive industry roadmap for public sector, nonprofit, and higher education verticals aligned with customer needs, market trends, and regulatory requirements.
- Translate industry-specific workflows and pain points into actionable product requirements across ERP modules. Gather, document, and validate detailed product requirements based on customer interviews, market research, and regulatory analysis.
- Champion the use of AI and automation technologies to deliver industry-specific differentiators that help clients innovate, drive efficiencies, and increase their impact.
- Work with data and platform teams to define use cases for predictive analytics, intelligent workflows, and decision support into professional services use cases to allow our users to focus what matters.

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**
- Act as the industry voice in product planning conversations with horizontal product teams.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to support evangelism of our product strategy, to assist with go-to-market strategies, enablement, and to drive customer engagement.

**Customer & Market Insight**
- Engage directly with customers, partners, and policy experts to gather insights and validate product direction.
- Work across the company to monitor sector-specific regulations, funding models, and compliance frameworks to inform product development.

**Product Execution Support**
- Contribute to discovery, validation, and launch activities in collaboration with UX, engineering, and operations teams.
- Ensure industry-specific requirements are prioritized and delivered in alignment with platform capabilities.

**Qualifications**
- Experience in product management for ERP or enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Strong domain knowledge in public sector, nonprofit, or higher education operations.
- Proven ability to translate complex industry needs into scalable product solutions.
- Strong ability to influence without authority and work cross-functionally in a matrixed environment.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable Experience
- Experience with ERP platforms serving mission-driven sectors
- Familiarity with in AI-enabled or data-rich product environments.

**This role can be based remotely in Spain or Portugal.**
**Additional Information**
Who we are

We are a people-first community that nurtures all the areas that surround your working experience. With us, you’ll be surrounded by a high-performance team that supports your authentic self and celebrates your uniqueness.

We believe that ‘How work should feel’ is an evolving statement. Work goes beyond tasks and everyday responsibilities it’s about feeling valued, empowered, promoted, impactful, seen, and appreciated.

We are reimagining how work makes people feel.

What we offer
- a culture built on trust and accountability - giving you the freedom and autonomy to be successful and make an impact
- balance - w