Director of Product, GotPhoto
School photography digitisation
Posted today
School photography digitisation
101-200 employees
Posted today
101-200 employees
Company mission
To allow any photographer to run a successful volume photography business.
Role
Who you are
- Scale-up Leadership: You’ve successfully led a product team in a 100–500 FTE environment
- AI Product Builder: You have a proven track record of building and launching AI-driven products that delivered tangible business or customer impact
- Technical Depth: You know how to leverage data and legacy product insights to build modern, innovative solutions
- SaaS & E-com Expertise: You understand the Vertical SaaS playbook and how to drive commercial growth in an e-commerce setting
- Exceptional Communication: You are a master at stakeholder management, able to translate complex product visions into actionable clarity for all departments
- Customer-Centric Design: You have a deep intuition for building products that solve complex workflow problems simply
- Process Coaching: You know how to introduce new methodologies like SDD and train a team to embrace them as a means to better outcomes
- The Balanced Driver: You are smart, hardworking, and resilient, with the ability to drive impact without losing your balance
- The First-Principles Thinker: You challenge legacy approaches to find the most direct path to customer value, always considering the broader business context
- The Outcome Closer: You don't just start initiatives; you drive them through to measurable customer and business impact
- Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may refrain from applying for positions if they feel they don't meet all qualifications. We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we're excited to discover how your distinctive experience can enhance our team!
What the job involves
- Do you want to build the best workflow engine in the sector, making life effortless for thousands of creatives?
- Are you ready to drive true innovation, building first-principles AI products on the back of deep vertical knowledge and rich customer data?
- If you are a smart, balanced leader who has already built high-impact AI products and knows how to drive business success through data and an amazing customer experience, then you are our perfect match!
- Expect unparalleled exposure to the intersection of high-scale e-commerce and deep workflow innovation. We are building a product that doesn't just "work"—it drives our customers' business success out-of-the-box, allowing them to focus on what they love: taking amazing pictures.
- As Director of Product, you will lead our product team to outbuild the competition, leveraging our legacy product's insights to deliver an effortless customer experience and measurable GMV growth
- Deliver Effortless Value: Own the mission of building a highly differentiated workflow engine that removes friction for photographers, allowing them to focus on their clients and their craft
- Drive First-Principles Innovation: Build the next generation of AI-first products by leveraging our deep vertical knowledge, customer insights, and existing data foundations
- Lead the AI-Transformation: Use your experience in building AI products to transform our discovery and delivery processes, coaching the team to use Spec-Driven Development (SDD) for maximum clarity and speed
- Master Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a high-level communicator and partner for Marketing, Customer Success, and Engineering, ensuring everyone is aligned on the path to customer success
- Lead with Balance: Navigate ambiguity and overcome barriers to drive impact "no matter what," providing the team with the balanced leadership they need to excel
Our take
Taking professional photos for events and schools is as much an exercise in administration as it is in photography, with a gruelling and largely manual workload of organising photos, taking payments and shipping out prints eating into a photographer's time. GotPhoto exists to make this process much easier, automating promotions, sales and fulfillment, freeing the photographer to focus on their core business.
Considered the leader in its market, GotPhoto has amassed a customer base of about 4000 small-medium business and sole trader clients across the UK, US and DACH regions. While the company has had strong growth in recent years it still has a large market to grow into, with a core market that grows year on year as more photographers look into automation for their businesses.
GotPhoto was acquired by EQT Growth in 2023, providing investment for the platform's development and the addition of new features. This sets up the company to be able to tap its parent's commercial connections as it aims to grow its lead in an estimated $5 billion market.
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Insights
58% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid holiday and sick leave
- Subsidised fitness membership through Classpass
- Development & learning opportunities through regular check-ins with your team lead, team exchanges and development reviews
- Education budget, that allows you to grow professionally and explore new ideas
- We’ll provide you with all the relevant work equipment you need in order to successfully from the office or your Home Office
- Yearly team holidays at an awesome location (after successful business year)
- Learning budget for regular trainings and coaching, book- & online course-budget of at least 500 €
- Remote work - You have the freedom to decide whether you want to work from home or from the (dog friendly) office in Berlin (for this position, Spain + Portugal is also an option)
- Education budget, that allows you to grow professionally and explore new ideas
- Urban Sport Club membership discount, to keep active even in these isolated times
- Unlimited holidays (26 days are the minimum)
- SpendIt Card - With a monthly sum to spend on your groceries or whatever you like (after your probation period)
Company HQ
Government District, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Benedikt Greifenhofer
(Board Member)Former CEO from 2019 to 2025. Before joining GotPhoto, was Controller (Business Development & Strategic Projects) for Daimler Truck AG.
James Micklethwait
(CEO)Joined the company as CPO/CGO in 2024, becoming CEO in 2025. Previously VP at Kahoot! and Co-Founder, Product and Marketing at Unmortgage.
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