Who you are

• Scale and Scope: Proven track record of managing complex data environments, including Big Data, Data Warehousing, and real-time stream management
• Technical Fluency: Strong working knowledge of vector databases (pgVector), semantic data structures, and AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain) sufficient to guide technical teams and validate architectural decisions
• SaaS & Platform Leadership: Significant experience (5-10 years) leading high-performance product teams, with a specific focus on SaaS analytics, observability infrastructure, or usage-based platforms
• DXP/PaaS Background: Significant experience in PaaS, enterprise software, or Digital Experience Platform (DXP) environments
• AI-Native Mindset: Ability to drive outcomes in a transformed product landscape where AI is a core capability, not just a feature
• Business Acumen: Strategic maturity that is demonstrated by an ability to manage long-range planning and enterprise-level impact as well as conduct regular business reviews with a focus on P&L impact, product adoption, and financial performance (Revenue, COGS, Margin)

What the job involves

• Acquia is seeking a Director of Product for Data & Intelligence to lead the centralized Data Product Team. This senior leadership role is accountable for the centralization, normalization, and strategic governance of Acquia’s enterprise data assets—encompassing both platform telemetry and business-critical data
• You will move the organization beyond traditional reporting to a unified, AI-ready data ecosystem that powers market-facing AI capabilities and drives operational intelligence
• Enterprise Data Strategy: Be accountable for the strategic roadmap and long-range execution of the Core Data Layer (CDL), unifying product and business data sources into a decentralized intelligence architecture
• Normalization of Data Silos: Manage the centralization of fragmented data assets into a semantic intelligence layer, ensuring data is accessible for cross-product reasoning and executive decision-making
• Strategic GTM Alignment: Partner with GTM leadership to deliver actionable insights that improve account management performance and transform platform usage into monetizable, value-based outcomes
• AI-Native Product Leadership: Drive the transition toward an AI-native PDLC, ensuring the product team is comfortable operating in a high-velocity, automated development environment
• Platform Observability & Intelligence: Lead the strategy for enterprise-wide observability to reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) while establishing clear KPIs for data quality and decision impact
• Enterprise Governance & Risk Management: Enforce "Safe-by-Design" protocols, including automated PII redaction and robust access controls to ensure data integrity and compliance
• What Success Looks Like:
• Data as a Strategic Asset: AI initiatives are accelerated across the company because a high-fidelity, unified data layer is already operational
• Value-Based Outcomes: Customer and business data are successfully converted into monetizable insights that drive account growth and performance
• AI-Native Operational Excellence: The Data Product Team consistently delivers high-quality value by leveraging a modern, AI-integrated product lifecycle

Benefits

• Up to 13 weeks of maternity, six weeks of paternity and adoption leave paid at 100 percent
• Returning-parent transition program to allow new parents to ease back into work
• ‎We help offset the cost of legal adoption fees
• Time off when you need it
• ‎Modern office spaces equipped with modern desks, natural light, comfortable chairs, and common areas
• Well-stocked snacks and beverages
• Low employee premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• ESA: Pre-tax health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, Employer Health Savings Account contributions
• Confidential employee assistance program, including five free counseling sessions for you or a family member per year
• Cutting-edge telemedicine visits
• Pre-tax commuter and parking accounts
• Fitness center reimbursement
• Adult and dependent orthodontia benefits
• Identity theft protection, travel assistance, and will preparation
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, long-term disability
• No employee deductible in medical, dental, or vision insurance, plus enhanced discounts on glasses/contact lenses
• Paramedical practitioner services, including massage therapists, acupuncturists, physiotherapy
• Benefits for both basic and major dental services
• No dispensing fee for prescription drugs
• Confidential employee assistance program
• Comprehensive employee assistance program
• Medical history disregarded for medical scheme, with premium covered at 100 percent for employee and spouse
• Tax-free and NI-free childcare vouchers
• Pre-tax cycle to work scheme
• Gym membership discounts
• Confidential employee assistance program
• Vision benefits
• In France, an enhanced mandatory supplementary insurance (Mutuelle), covering health, dental, and vision insurance, and Prevoyance (as per statutory regulations)
• In France, employees also receive an additional monthly stipend to purchase any further enhanced insurance they may need to suit their needs
• In Belgium, pre-tax lunch vouchers of 8 Euros per working day, 100 percent exempt from social security charges
• In Belgium, group insurance, comprising of a hospitalization benefit, group insurance, life, and disability