Director, Product Platform
Wk · NLD, Alphen Aan Den Rijn, Netherlands · onsite
Lead the platform strategy behind a market-leading SaaS portfolio
Enablon is looking for a Director, Product Platform to define and lead the strategy for the shared platform capabilities that power our Operational Risk and Safety Management solutions globally.
In this role, you will help shape the platform foundation connecting Enablon's portfolio of products into a scalable, intelligent, and integrated ecosystem. You will oversee the product direction for APIs, integrations, identity, security, cloud and data services, analytics, and AI-enabled platform capabilities while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Architecture leadership.
This position is suited to an experienced product leader who has successfully built and scaled platform products in complex SaaS environments and knows how to balance long-term platform strategy with measurable business outcomes.
What You'll Do
Define and execute platform strategy
- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Enablon's shared platform capabilities.
- Define how applications, workflows, data, integrations, and services connect across the portfolio.
- Drive platform investments that support scalability, interoperability, innovation, and business growth.
- Balance short-term business priorities with long-term platform evolution.
Lead a high-performing product organization
- Lead and develop a team of Product Managers and Product Leaders.
- Coach senior product professionals and build a strong leadership bench.
- Create alignment across platform and domain product teams.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Partner across Product and Technology
- Serve as the primary product counterpart to Platform Engineering and Architecture leadership.
- Guide strategic decisions involving APIs, identity, security, cloud, data, analytics, and AI capabilities.
- Bring the technical credibility required to evaluate platform trade-offs and influence direction.
- Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Architecture, and business leadership.
Drive platform excellence at scale
- Establish reusable capabilities and common standards that accelerate product delivery.
- Drive adoption of platform services across product teams.
- Define success measures and use data-driven insights to guide investment decisions.
- Help evolve AI-enabled platform capabilities that support intelligent workflows and future product innovation.
What You Bring
You are a strategic product leader with a strong platform background and the ability to influence across a complex technology organization.
Required Experience
- 12+ years of Product Management experience within enterprise software.
- Significant experience in SaaS, platform products, cloud technologies, developer tooling, or comparable software-platform environments.
- 5+ years leading Product Managers, including experience managing senior product professionals.
- Experience leading managers and building high-performing product organizations.
- Proven success owning and scaling technical platform products supporting multiple applications or business domains.
- Strong expertise in APIs, integrations, Identity & Access Management, security, cloud and data services, and AI-enabled platform capabilities.
- Experience partnering with senior Engineering and Architecture leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to align multiple teams and stakeholders within a matrixed organization.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent technical experience.
Leadership Profile
You are known for your ability to:
- Translate strategic vision into actionable product roadmaps.
- Build alignment across diverse stakeholders and teams.
- Balance customer needs, business priorities, and technology investments.
- Develop high-performing product leaders and influence executive stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience modernizing mature enterprise software portfolios.
- Experience with AI-enabled products, platform services, or developer ecosystems.
- Experience in EHS, Operational Risk Management, Safety, Sustainability, Compliance, or related enterprise software markets.
Why Join Enablon?
Platform capabilities increasingly determine how enterprise software scales, integrates, and evolves.
As Director, Product Platform, you will help define the shared technology foundation behind Enablon's next generation of Operational Risk and Safety solutions. You will influence how data, integrations, identity, analytics, and AI capabilities come together across a global SaaS portfolio used by many of the world's leading organizations.
This is a unique opportunity to shape platform strategy, lead an experienced product organization, and work alongside talented product and technology leaders to build the future of Enablon.
About Enablon
Enablon, a Wolters Kluwer company, is a global leader in software solutions for Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), Sustainability, Risk Management, and Operational Excellence.
Trusted by many of the world's leading organizations, we help businesses manage risk, strengthen operational performance, and support sustainable growth.
Backed by Wolters Kluwer's global reach and expertise, Enablon combines deep domain knowledge with the scale and resources of a technology organization operating in more than 40 countries worldwide.
Interested?
If you have successfully led platform product organizations, built scalable SaaS platform capabilities, and enjoy working at the intersection of product strategy, technology leadership, and platform innovation, we would like to hear from you.
For more information: ina.smaelen@wolterskluwer.com
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