Overview
At Benifex, we're on a mission to redefine employee experiences through a world-class benefits platform that puts people first. We’re building smart, intuitive, and impactful tools that help companies engage, support, and retain their teams in a changing world of work.
We’re looking for a Director of Product to lead one of our most critical product pillars. This person will be responsible for shaping and executing a strategy that drives deep multi-product penetration across our customer’s employee base - through unified, AI-enhanced, and scalable experiences.
This is a leadership role for someone who knows how to set a bold direction but also gets into the details when needed. Someone who can grow a team, lead through influence, and create the structure and momentum that help product managers thrive.
Why should you apply?
* High impact/high autonomy role: Form part of our global product leadership team, responsible for 8 squads and multiple products and leading the product strategy for a critical product pillar
* AI enablement: Decide how we identify opportunities and embed AI across our product suite to further enhance user value
* Scale: Play a key part in how we grow from 5 million to 50 million users globally
* Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025
* Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require the people to be based in the UK, Germany or Ireland for this position.
Role
Role Overview
Benifex is on a mission to redefine employee experiences through a world-class benefits platform that puts people first. We’re building smart, intuitive, and impactful tools that help companies engage, support, and retain their teams in a changing world of work.
We’re looking for a Director of Product to lead one of our most critical product pillars. This person will be responsible for shaping and executing a strategy that drives deep multi-product penetration across our customer’s employee base - through unified, AI-enhanced, and scalable experiences.
This is a leadership role for someone who knows how to set a bold direction but also gets into the details when needed. Someone who can grow a team, lead through influence, and create the structure and momentum that help product managers thrive.
Responsibilities
* Drive adoption + depth: Create product experiences that increase penetration across the employee base and encourage multi-product usage.
* Lead the charge: Build a product vision and strategy for your area, ensuring alignment with Benifex goals and an exceptional customer experience.
* Develop a team: Build and coach a product team to obsess over customers, innovate, move quickly and ultimately enjoy their work.
* Unify the experience: Champion a seamless, integrated experience across our product suite, balancing usability, performance, and scalability.
* Communicate effectively: Get people inspired by the product vision and share the right context with the right people at the right time.
* Embed AI thinking: Identify and deliver opportunities where AI and automation can add real, differentiated value to users.
What are we looking for?
Experience
* Experience in best-in-class product organisations, either at scale (Google, Booking.com, Uber, Deliveroo, JustEAT) or high-growth startups.
* Experience in building out a global suite of products, responsible for the product strategy and taking products from 1 to 10.
* Extensive experience in global product management in the B2B SaaS sector (leading multiple products across multiple markets/regions).
* Demonstrated ability in building and leading high-calibre product organisations (leading 5+ squads/product managers).
* Experience embedding AI across products and building AI-enhanced features.
Skills
* Building a multi-market product, with a proven ability to balance priorities across geographies.
* Good judgement and the ability to make decisions in complex situations with no obvious right answer.
* Obsess over engagement, retention, and long-term value creation - not just output. Comfortable defining and owning KPIs across multiple squads.
* Great storytelling skills to motivate and inspire teams towards a common goal.
* Hands-on when necessary to fill gaps and set a practical example of excellence.
* Build a product vision and strategy aligned with Benifex’s goals and exceptional customer experience.
* Build and coach product teams to obsess over customers, innovate, move quickly and enjoy their work.
Even if you don’t meet all the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply. We offer a variety of other roles, so please check our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.
Interview process
Our interview process is designed to be fast and efficient:
* Initial informal call with the Talent team
* 60-minute session with our CTO and Product Director
* 45-minute interview with VP of Engineering
* Final interview with Board member
Benefits
UK Benefits:
* 25 days holiday plus local bank holidays
* Your birthday off
* Two half-day wellbeing days
* Healthcare cash plan and PMI cover
* Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 support
* Income protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)
* Referral bonuses
* Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
* Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days
* Buy and Sell scheme for holidays
* £50 monthly allowance to spend on benefits
German Benefits:
* 30 days total, 20 statutory holidays and 10 non-statutory holidays
* Two volunteering days per year
* €500 annual wellness budget
* Occupational health support for work-related health needs
* Referral bonuses
* Parental and maternity leave
* Workation / Work from Anywhere policy, 10 days per quarter
Equal opportunity We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident employer scheme. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.
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