Senior Director of Product

Space Inch is seeking a Senior Director of Product to lead our product function within a long-standing partnership with one of the largest investment managers in the U.S. This role is embedded on-site with the client in midtown Manhattan and serves as the senior-most product leader across a portfolio of critical software initiatives.

You will oversee a small team of product managers (4–5) while also working hands-on to scope projects, define product requirements, and translate business needs into technical direction. You’ll partner closely with both our internal team and the client’s technology and business leadership to articulate product roadmaps, demonstrate the value of ongoing work, and ensure alignment on priorities. This is a unique opportunity to operate at the intersection of product strategy and execution in a fast-paced, enterprise environment.

Note: This is a full-time, on-site role in Midtown Manhattan. Please apply ONLY if you are available to work in person.

Our mission, vision and values

At Space Inch, we prioritize alignment with our clients and team, ensuring a deep understanding of their needs. We are committed to delivering exceptional work while supporting the personal and professional growth of our team members.

Working at Space Inch

• Our team (~75 people) is primarily based in Croatia, with members in South America, Serbia, and the US.
• Occasional travel may be required, including annual company retreats in Croatia.
• We work on end-to-end and hybrid development projects.
• We strongly support work/life balance for our team members.
  

Key Responsibilities

The first 50% of Work

• Executive Communication: Act as the primary interface with business and technology executives, communicating roadmap updates, framing product value, and aligning priorities across stakeholders.
• Team Alignment: Provide strategic leadership across the product team, ensuring clarity, coordination, and consistent prioritization, while enabling talented individual PMs to focus on execution.
• Product Vision & Strategy: Help develop the product vision and strategy across a portfolio of enterprise software tools used by multiple business units.
• Cultivate and strengthen strategic relationships with key executive-level clients and partners.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to strengthen product processes and team coordination, supporting continuous improvement and operational excellence.

The other 50% of Work

• Hands-On Product Work: Contribute directly to product delivery, scoping new projects, shaping requirements, and working with business stakeholders to define outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Delivery: Work closely with engineering, design, and program management partners to deliver complex software solutions at scale.
• Roadmap Development: Translate evolving business needs into high-impact product roadmaps, in close collaboration with client stakeholders.

Requirements

What you'll bring

• Extensive Product Leadership Experience: 10+ years in senior product roles, ideally within fintech.  Best case scenario: you have experience in investment management.
• Strategic Product Vision: A strong track record of defining and executing multi-year product strategies that drive measurable business impact.
• Team Leadership & Collaboration: Exceptional ability to lead and align experienced product professionals around shared goals.
• Executive-Level Communication: Proven skill in presenting product strategies clearly and simply to technical, non-technical, and senior executive audiences.
• Business & Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of business drivers and financial metrics, with the ability to connect product work to bottom-line outcomes.
• Forward-Thinking Perspective: A strategic thinker who can anticipate future needs, spot emerging trends, and turn insight into actionable product initiatives.
• Comfort with Complexity & Ambiguity: Demonstrated success working through uncertainty, resolving competing priorities, and building alignment across diverse stakeholders.

Typical challenges you will be solving

• Strategic Cohesion Across Portfolios: Orchestrating a unified product strategy across a diverse set of fintech initiatives, ensuring coordination and insight across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Executive Influence & Communication: Translating complex roadmaps and product strategie