Job Title : Digital Product Director
Reports to : Vice President of Product Management
Based at : Richmond, UK, Surrey + hybrid working
RX (formerly Reed Exhibitions) is one of the world’s leading events business. Every year we run over 400 events in 22 countries, bringing together over 7 million active event participants worldwide from 43 industry sectors, to help participants build their businesses.
RX is part of RELX Group. RELX Group is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom about 10,000 are technologists.
RELX strives to be a diverse employer of choice, and has won multiple awards for its commitment to corporate responsibility.
Our product vision is to enhance the magic of face-to-face events by using digital tools and data to improve in-person interactions, and to develop new products that help our customers to do business even when they can’t be together.
Over the past several years, RX has completely rebuilt all its core digital platforms, and has successfully launched a set of revenue-generating digital products supporting face-to-face and virtual events, that we are mid-way through rolling out globally.
We are looking for an experienced Product Director to lead and further develop the core customer- facing platform (Atlas) that supports all our face-to-face events.
The Product Director will be responsible for completing the global rollout of the Atlas events platform, doubling the product revenue by 2025 to $50M by 2025, and designing and developing new products that enable buyers and sellers to engage and connect online and at our events.
This is a key role that will shape how the events industry better understands its audiences across multiple touchpoints, and uses that data to improve the value proposition of both face-to-face events and digital interactions.
The Product Director will own the vision and the roadmap for the core platform and related products, considering different business models and event types, and will work with .
The successful candidate will work with commercial stakeholders (marketing, sales, and other product teams) to support successful go-to-market strategies indrive commercial success around the world.
our key business units.
This role is an excellent opportunity to define and deliver a product vision, and to have tangible commercial impact. It would be well suited to someone who has developed outstanding senior product leadership skills and is eager to demonstrate the ability to prioritise different revenue opportunities and deliver on these, working with business stakeholders in global markets including UK, US, France, Germany, China, Japan and Latin America.
It is well-supported by a team of talented product owners whom you will be responsible for developing, and matrixed resources from in-house and external technology resources, a product delivery team, and product marketing.
We are comfortable working remotely with colleagues around the world and have adopted hybrid working practices.
The ideal candidate will be a relationship builder and a driven personality to lead and inspire cross-functional teams to build exceptional products and services.
You will be part of a forward-thinking leadership team charged with building the next generation of digital events products in our industryand analytics for our customers, and must be committed to building a deep understanding of our internal and external customers and their objectives in different cultures and industry sectors.
Key Responsibilities :
Constantly update view on where the market is heading.
and builds up our data analytics capabilities including contributing to data strategy, our data lake, and analytics approach.
using AB testing and other customer discovery and learning techniques as appropriate
Skills & Experience
We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements.
If you're excited about this role and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for below, we’d love to hear from you.
You could be just who we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed and grow.
Creates an atmosphere of continual improvement, in which all are encouraged to exceed the expected results.
RX is part of RELX Group. RELX Group is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom about 10,000 are technologists.
RELX strives to be a diverse employer of choice, and has won multiple awards for its commitment to corporate responsibility.
At RX, we are passionate about making a positive impact on society and customers through our unique contributions as a business, including fostering communities within the industries and fans we serve through our broad range of events.
We are fully committed to a fair and equitable work environment for our people and in all the countries and territories in which we operate.
We want RX to be a great place to work, where our employees feel valued, have equal opportunities, and benefit from pay equality.
Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of their gender, gender identity, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, age, caring responsibilities, pregnancy and maternity or disability status.
Inclusion and diversity are important to our future. It is essential that we have the engagement of people from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas in order to achieve real innovation for our customers around the world.
Benefits include :
