Head/Director of Product (AI Insights & Automation)

Mimica

$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience as Head of Product, Director of Product, or VP of Product in a scale-up environment.
  • Expertise in technical Enterprise products such as data-heavy, process optimisation, AI, or automation.
  • Strong leadership experience in mentoring Product Managers and Designers.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, especially in aligning engineering and commercial teams.
  • Proven ability to build products leveraging in-house ML/AI technology.
  • Strong prioritization skills with a commitment to customer value.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and align diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the global product strategy and roadmap.
  • Communicate product vision to improve team clarity and alignment.
  • Mentor Product Managers and Designers, establishing growth paths.
  • Support and unblock the product team to ensure high performance.
  • Enhance product function operations through informed decision-making.
  • Align stakeholders and resolve conflicts in priorities.
  • Handle escalations and protect team focus from external pressures.

Benefits

  • Fully remote position allowing flexibility in work location.
  • Generous compensation package with stock options.
  • Company-issued laptop and remote work setup support.
  • Flexible scheduling to promote work-life balance.
  • Ample paid time off and enhanced parental leave benefits.
  • Health and retirement plans included.
  • Annual learning budget for professional development.
Full Job Description
Mission

You will be the first Head of Product at Mimica, leading the product function through its next major growth phase.

This role is about leading a product organisation as it scales with ambition and intention. You will own the macro strategy, our market positioning and product roadmap, raise the bar on product management, and introduce the structures, principles, and ways of working that help teams make better decisions and move faster with confidence.

You'll work closely with the CEO, CTO, Product Managers, Designers, and leaders across Engineering, Machine Learning, and Go-to-Market functions to set and align on strategy, prioritise effectively, and ensure we continue building products that deliver clear customer and business value.

We believe the most important product decisions happen before a line of code is written. We're building the discovery muscle: understanding why customers work the way they do, what they're actually trying to accomplish, and where our technology can create outcomes they couldn't get elsewhere. Your impact as Head of Product will be to drive that shift and embed that understanding at the company level.

It's a rare opportunity to take on a foundational product leadership role at a well-funded AI scale-up with deep technical expertise, proprietary AI capabilities, and meaningful growth opportunities.

Part of your day-to-day
  1. Define, own, and champion the global product strategy and macro-level roadmap, including identifying gaps, shaping priorities, and long-term vision in partnership with the C-suite.
  2. Document and communicate the product vision and strategy to improve clarity and alignment, and turn informal decisions into clear direction.
  3. Mentor and develop Product Managers and Designers, and define career ladders and growth paths to assure the progression and upskilling of our team.
  4. Support and unblock your team when needed to maintain a healthy, sustainable, and high-performing team.
  5. Improve the operating model of the product function: prioritise and plan rituals; bring customer, market, and competitive insights earlier in the decision-making process and inform investment decisions.
  6. Align stakeholders and build consensus when priorities or opinions conflict.
  7. Handle executive and customer escalations and protect team focus when leadership or Sales pressure disrupts the roadmap.
  8. Ensure we retain a culture of strong ownership, transparency, and initiative while assuring business goals are met.
  9. Forecast future team capacity needs, and partner with the People team to hire top-tier talent to build an effective and well-balanced Product organisation.


Who are we looking for
  1. A product leader who has operated as Head of Product, Director of Product, or VP of Product in a comparable Scale-up environment.
  2. Experience building and managing one of the following technical Enterprise products or categories: data-heavy, process optimisation, AI, or automation products.
  3. A strong people leader with a track record of coaching and mentoring both Product Managers and Product Designers.
  4. Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly driving alignment between senior leaders in Engineering and Commercial functions.
  5. Experience in building products powered by in-house developed ML/AI technology.
  6. Excellent judgment on prioritization and roadmap decisions, especially when hard trade-offs are required.
  7. Strong product and commercial instinct, and a clear commitment to customer value.
  8. Confidence handling disagreement, aligning diverse stakeholders, and navigating ambiguity with maturity.
  9. Experience working successfully in an international and multicultural team
  10. Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate technical ideas clearly to different audiences.

Nice to have
  1. A solid technical foundation or direct hands-on experience building or maintaining technical systems (eg, as a Software Engineer)
  2. Experience working in organisations where the product and designers were embedded into cross-functional Engineering teams.
  3. Experience working and leading fully remote distributed teams.


Location
  • This is a fully remote position. We welcome candidates based across North America and Western Europe, with a preference for time zones that allow strong overlap with our teams in both regions.


What we offer

Generous compensation + stock options - aligned with our internal framework, market data, and individual skills.

Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix.

Company-issued laptop, remote setup stipend, and co-working budget

Flexible schedules and location

☀ Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays

Enhanced parental leave

Health & retirement benefits

Annual learning & development budget

Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials

Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work

Note: Some benefits may vary depending on location and role

⚠ Mimica will only contact candidates from an [redacted].ai email address. We do not request banking or sensitive personal information during the recruiting process.

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