# Product Engineering Director

> ClearCourse · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-09

**Workplace:** hybrid

**Department:** ClearCourse Group

## Description

**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.**

## Apply

[Apply at ClearCourse](https://apply.workable.com/clearcourse-1/j/724597DBC4/apply)

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