Servant Leader · Senior Product Director · Remote / London
James
Pearson
Product Leadership · Team Builder · Brand & Content Protection
I lead by clearing the path. My job is to give teams the direction, context, and space to do the best work of their careers — then get out of the way. With 25+ years across engineering, product, and strategy, I bring rare depth to the spaces between vision and execution, in brand protection, anti-piracy, and beyond.
14+
Teams led
25+
Years in tech
$500K
Revenue rescued
35%
Analyst efficiency gained
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Leadership
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Clear the path
A leader's job is to remove blockers, not add them. I spend my energy making sure the people around me have everything they need to succeed — context, clarity, and autonomy.
02
Direction before speed
It's easy to move fast in the wrong direction. I invest in alignment up front — with stakeholders, with the team, with the data — so that when we commit, we commit fully.
03
Coach, don't control
I've mentored product and engineering teams across multiple organisations. The goal is always the same: help people outgrow the need for me to tell them what to do.
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Data earns opinions
Gut feel matters, but it needs evidence. I build the dashboards, metrics and feedback loops that let the team make confident decisions without escalating every call.
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Experience
Senior Director of Product Management
Brand & Content Protection · Anti-Piracy
- Leading product strategy for brand and content protection across anti-piracy platforms
- Coordinating cross-functional stakeholders to consolidate and migrate client portals, data models and BI reporting
- Mentoring SDLC and Product Operations best-practice across 3 product groups
- Leader of the Agile & Delivery Community of Practice (CoP)
- Driving consistent roadmaps, metrics, dashboards and processes company-wide
Director of Product Management
Anti-Piracy & Content Protection Services
- Transformed a decayed product into a $500,000/yr service
- Delivered 3 large multi-team projects to increase efficiency and cost savings on time
- Established product operations best practices across the organisation
- Built company-wide roadmap consistency, metrics and OKR dashboards
Senior Technical Product Manager
TV & Film Anti-Piracy
- Led cross-functional engineering teams to take down pirate content at scale
- Increased performance of automated website scraping by 200%+ YoY
- Delivered a new Task Management system that increased analyst efficiency by 35%
- Increased observability and reliability of all technical systems
- Set up and managed the engineering SDLC with continuous improvements
Agile Product Owner
SaaS platform that pioneered session replay
- Delivered 10+ large projects across 3 scrum teams
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by 25% through adept roadmap steering
- Set up and ran a Product Advisory Board, hosting events in London and Chicago
- Facilitator between customers, stakeholders and agile development teams
Lead Product Manager
Product & Data Science Teams
- Worked with CPO to create and deliver SessionCam's product roadmap
- Key influencer behind waterfall → agile transition, increasing dev output by 30%+
- Managed and chaired 3 product change steering groups
Lead Front-End Software Developer
VOC Feedback / Session Replay SaaS
- Led front-end design and development for SessionCam's machine-learning SaaS product
- Foundation of technical knowledge that informs my product decisions today
Product Owner & Senior Web Designer
Online Gaming
- Successfully launched the first social betting app to market
- Reported directly to CEO on product development, QA, releases and analytics
Studio Create · BuildingBox · LJ Create
Director, Project Manager, Web Designer
- Director of New Business at Studio Create — delivered 60+ websites, managed developers
- BuildingBox — delivery manager for Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis, Visa Europe
- LJ Create — interactive learning material for a $5M project in Mexico
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Skills
⬡ Leadership
⬡ AI-Assisted Development
Active
Actively building and launching products using Claude Code — both internal tools at work and personal side projects. Comfortable directing agentic coding workflows, iterating rapidly from idea to deployed product, and using LLMs as a genuine force-multiplier for a product mind that can think in code.
⬡ Product
⬡ Agile
⬡ Technical
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Beyond the CV
3 Peaks Challenge
Climbed the 3 tallest peaks in the UK. Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and Snowdon — a reminder that the best problems are solved by putting one foot in front of the other.
200 Miles in a Day
Cycled 200 miles in a single day for charity, raising money for a local school. Also co-founded and ran Thurton Big Dogs Cycling Club from 2018–2024.
SELOC Regional Liaison
South East Lotus Owners Club — organised events for the East Anglia region for over a decade. Enthusiast of anything with an engine and a good driving road.
LANWars Founder
Founded LANWars Gaming Parties in 2001 — a community website and LAN event organiser hosting up to 50 people, with 200+ members. Yes, this predates most social networks.
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Contact
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LinkedIn
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