Head of Product - Automotive & Data

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Director
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

Product Management B2B Product Strategy Payments Platform Data Monetization API Modernization Cross-functional Leadership OEM Partnership Platform Scaling

FULL DESCRIPTION

Head of Product - Automotive & Data

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring a Head of Product for the Automotive & Data Business Unit. This is a hybrid role based in London, UK.

  • Department: Automotive and Data
  • Location: London
  • Remote status: Hybrid
  • Employment type: Full-time

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded Head of Product to lead the full product portfolio of our Automotive & Data Business Unit globally. This role spans our parking and EV charger discovery products, in-car payments, including Android Automotive initiatives, indoor maps, and the data platform that powers both the Automotive & Data business unit and the wider [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] group. A core part of this mandate is to establish [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] as the default, global in-car payments platform across parking, charging and adjacent mobility verticals, while ensuring our data platform becomes a reusable, revenue-generating backbone for multiple business units. You will lead a team of Product Managers and Product Leads, alongside the Head of Data Operations. The role carries a clear mandate to accelerate growth. It is a hands-on leadership position for someone who combines strong product craft with pragmatic execution and sharp commercial instinct.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Product Leadership

Own the Automotive & Data portfolio end-to-end, with clear accountability for roadmap, prioritisation and execution. Evolve [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s In-Car Payments platform into a scalable, multi-vertical transaction engine, while ensuring platform investments prioritise reusable capabilities that create leverage across the Automotive, B2C and [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]4Business business units. Drive platform consolidation and API modernisation to reduce duplication, increase speed and improve cost discipline.

Growth & Commercial Impact

Accelerate transaction growth across parking, EV charging, tolling and adjacent mobility verticals. Establish [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] as the default embedded payments layer for OEM partners and increase multi-vertical adoption per customer. Identify and execute data monetisation opportunities, ensuring our parking and EV data assets create measurable commercial value across business units and beyond.

Data & Operational Excellence

Lead the evolution of our global parking and EV data platform as a scalable, automated and revenue-enabling backbone. Improve coverage, freshness and automation while maintaining cost-to-serve discipline. Partner closely with Engineering to improve delivery predictability, production reliability and overall platform quality.

Team & Organisational Leadership

Build a high-performing product organisation with strong product craft, clear accountability and a clear focus on bias for delivery. Strengthen leadership depth, reduce key-person dependency and create momentum through clarity and focus.

What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)

  • In-car payment transactions have scaled materially, with the In-Car Payments platform established as a strategic multi-vertical platform across multiple OEM customers
  • OEM customers are live across more than one mobility vertical, increasing revenue per customer
  • Data coverage and automation have improved measurably while maintaining cost discipline
  • The Automotive & Data platform is demonstrably leveraged across multiple [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] business units
  • Delivery speed, reliability and predictability have improved in support of transaction growth

What are we looking for

  • Proven experience leading and scaling B2B product portfolios, ideally within transaction-based or payments-driven businesses
  • Track record of growing platform revenue and increasing multi-product penetration across enterprise customers
  • Experience building or evolving multi-product platforms serving multiple internal or external stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to monetise data or platform capabilities beyond core product use cases
  • Experience operating in complex, cross-functional and cross-BU environments

Why This Role Matters

This role sits at the centre of the Automotive & Data business unit’s evolution from a discovery-led portfolio into a scalable mobility transaction platform. Success will accelerate transaction revenue, deepen OEM integration and unlock platform and data leverage across the wide [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] organisation. It is an opportunity to shape a strategically important business with meaningful platform scale and long-term growth potential.

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

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