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Learning Pool is hiring a Director of Product. This role involves leading the vision, growth, and performance of the US-focused Adaptive Compliance product line, which includes adaptive content, intelligent authoring, actionable data, and emerging products. The Director will work cross-functionally across various departments to ensure the product remains differentiated and aligns with compliance needs in regulated industries.

Highlights

Define and evolve strategy and roadmap for Adaptive Compliance.
Lead cross-functional product teams in engineering, content, data, and design.
Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to refine messaging for compliance buyers.
Identify and evaluate acquisition opportunities to expand compliance capabilities.
Provide regular updates to executive leadership and investors.
Extensive product leadership experience in regulated sectors or compliance technology required.
Deep understanding of the US compliance market needed.
Travel within the US for customer insights and strategic support may be required.
Experience with adaptive learning methodologies and data-driven product development is essential.

Director of Product (Adaptive Compliance) Full Description

Director of Product (Adaptive Compliance) - US Remote

Product Management - Florida, Florida (Remote)

Wherever you find ambitious companies investing in their people, you’ll find Learning Pool

Learning Pool creates learning experiences that deliver extraordinary employee performance outcomes for companies and their people. Global organizations choose Learning Pool for its comprehensive, data-driven digital learning solutions. Learning Pool’s passion for impact, innovation, and people is why they stay. As a leader in e-learning innovation, we empower over 1,200 organizations globally and millions of learners through our engaging courses, advanced platforms, insightful analytics, and tailored content solutions.

Our dedication to excellence is demonstrated by accolades such as Platinum Investors in People and triple Gold at the 2024 Learning Technologies Awards. We are also recognized as a Great Place to Work in the UK and North America 2024, and proudly hold B Corp certification, reflecting our commitment to social and environmental responsibility. Be it for onboarding, upskilling, compliance, or the whole business, Learning Pool develops an effective and agile workforce through learning. Wherever you find ambitious companies investing in their people, you’ll find Learning Pool.

So if you’ve got what we’re looking for and the desire to join a team that values creativity and empowerment, then get in touch.

About the Role

We're seeking a strategic and commercially minded Director of Product to lead the vision, growth, and performance of our US-focused compliance offering (Adaptive Compliance). This is one of our most valuable revenue lines—encompassing adaptive content, intelligent authoring, actionable data, and a growing portfolio of emerging products and acquisitions.

In this high-impact role, you'll shape the future of our Compliance business—ensuring it remains differentiated, high-performing, and deeply aligned with the needs of Compliance buyers across regulated industries. You’ll work cross-functionally across product, engineering, sales, marketing, customer experience, and executive leadership to deliver measurable impact. The role will require a strong connection with US customer expectations, language, and regulation.

For more information about our benefits and why you should join learning pool, read more here: https://learningpool.com/why-work-for-learning-pool/

Location: Flexible within the USA (Eastern timezone). Candidates must have eligibility to work without the requirement of visa sponsorship by Learning Pool.

What you will be doing

Roles & responsibilities include:

Strategy & Vision

Define and evolve the long-term strategy and roadmap for Adaptive Compliance spanning content, authoring, data, and extensibility into adjacent products or acquisitions. This will be in close collaboration with our Chief Compliance Officer and SME team as a strategic lead in decision-making, positioning, and roadmap prioritization.
Translate this strategy into measurable outcomes that reflect both buyer needs and business value.
Work closely with our Compliance leadership and SMEs to ensure the product reflects emerging trends in ethical culture, behavioral analytics, and ESG-aligned governance and to ensure good understanding of regulatory, buyer, and market shifts.
Work closely with the Chief Product Officer to define the overall product portfolio strategy and contribute to shaping company-wide priorities.
Collaborate with fellow product leaders to ensure coherence across the portfolio aligning on experience design, user journeys, and shared capabilities to deliver a consistent and high-quality experience for our customers.
You may also be asked to represent the product function within the Senior Leadership Team, as needed.

Leadership & Execution

Lead the cross-functional product team responsible for Adaptive Compliance working closely with engineering, content, data, and design.
Collaborate closely with LX Directors to align on matrixed ownership of content design and production ensuring shared goals, efficient workflows, and clear accountability across functions.
Own the business case, budget, and delivery outcomes for the portfolio.
Own and evolve the Adaptive Compliance narrative to reflect market shifts, buyer behavior, and product evolution.
Maintain clear visibility of progress, risk, and dependencies; ensure strong collaboration across technical and go-to-market teams.

Go-to-Market & Customer Success

Partner with commercial and marketing teams to refine messaging, pricing, and sales enablement for Compliance buyers.
In collaborating with the Compliance team, act as a visible subject matter expert in key opportunities and industry conversations helping shape how our solutions meet the practical needs of compliance leaders.
Ground product and content strategy in a deep understanding of compliance buyers’ constraints, objections, and decision-making framework
Ensure the sales and CX teams are equipped with compelling stories, demos, and proof points for US clients.

Growth & Corporate Development

Play a key role in identifying and evaluating acquisition opportunities that expand our compliance capabilities whether through content, tech, data, or market access.
Partner with the CPO and M&A leads to assess product fit, technical integration, and commercial upside.
Lead post-acquisition product integration where relevant ensuring cohesion across the compliance portfolio.

Stakeholder Influence

Provide regular updates to executive leadership and investors on product performance, pipeline, and strategic priorities.
Build strong relationships across the business to align investment, navigate trade-offs, and drive adoption of adaptive compliance thinking.
Stay current on regulatory trends, adaptive technologies, and the evolving compliance landscape bringing external insight into our internal strategy.

What we are looking for

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

Domain & Market Expertise: You will have extensive product leadership experience in regulated sectors, compliance technology, or learning/data platforms, alongside a deep understanding of the US compliance buyer with direct experience shaping or selling solutions in this market.
Proven track record: You will have a demonstrated history of delivering commercially successful products for B2B buyers, with measurable impact on revenue, adoption, and retention.
Platform & Methodology Expertise: You will possess deep expertise in adaptive learning methodologies, data-driven product development practices, and scalable content platform architectures.
Cross-functional leadership: You will have led and inspired multi-disciplinary teams engineering, design, content, sales, and customer success driving alignment, influencing executive decision-making, and removing roadblocks to delivery.
Commercial fluency: You will be adept at shaping robust business cases, evaluating and structuring strategic partnerships, and contributing confidently to acquisition and M&A strategies.
Exceptional communication skills: You will be able to craft and deliver tailored narratives whether technical deep-dives, commercial pitches, or regulatory briefings that resonate with technical, commercial, and compliance audiences alike.
Travel readiness: You will have the willingness and ability to travel regularly to the US to gather customer insights, support go-to-market activities, and strengthen strategic partnerships.

Working at Learning Pool

With over 450 people across seven offices globally, the Learning Pool team is filled with people who have a real passion for what they do and a fresh approach to partnering with customers.

Learning Pool is a Platinum Investor in People, listed annually in the Great Places to Work for and wins numerous industry awards for our work with clients including the Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation) and recent Brandon Hall, Learning Technologies, e-Learning Industry, Stevie Customer Service and Institute of Customer Service awards. In addition, the Group is the only Strategic Leader offering Lower Total Cost of Ownership solutions in the 2022 Fosway Digital Learning 9-Grid.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 9th May at 5pm UK time. If you have any queries about your application, please email jobs@learningpool.com

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