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

Leadership

01
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.
04
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.

Experience

Corsearch May 2025 – Present Leadership Product
Senior Director of Product Management
Brand & Content Protection · Anti-Piracy
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  • 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
Corsearch Mar 2022 – Jun 2025 Leadership Product
Director of Product Management
Anti-Piracy & Content Protection Services
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  • 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
Corsearch (Entura) Dec 2019 – Apr 2021 Technical Product
Senior Technical Product Manager
TV & Film Anti-Piracy
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  • 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
SessionCam Mar 2017 – Dec 2019 Product Leadership
Agile Product Owner
SaaS platform that pioneered session replay
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  • 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
SessionCam Oct 2015 – Mar 2017 Product Leadership
Lead Product Manager
Product & Data Science Teams
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  • 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
SessionCam Nov 2014 – Oct 2015 Technical Design
Lead Front-End Software Developer
VOC Feedback / Session Replay SaaS
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  • Led front-end design and development for SessionCam's machine-learning SaaS product
  • Foundation of technical knowledge that informs my product decisions today
BGO Entertainment Sep 2012 – Sep 2014 Product Design
Product Owner & Senior Web Designer
Online Gaming
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  • Successfully launched the first social betting app to market
  • Reported directly to CEO on product development, QA, releases and analytics
Earlier roles 2001 – 2012 Design Leadership
Studio Create · BuildingBox · LJ Create
Director, Project Manager, Web Designer
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  • 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

Skills

⬡ Leadership
Stakeholder management Cross-functional teams Servant leadership Mentoring Advisory boards C-suite comms
⬡ 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.
Claude Code Agentic coding Vibe coding LLM-driven prototyping AI product development Prompt engineering
⬡ Product
Product Strategy Roadmapping OKRs / KPIs MVP definition Product Ops ROI analysis Linear Productboard
⬡ Agile
Scrum Kanban Lean Agile Coach SDLC Jira Community of Practice
⬡ Technical
Front-End Dev BI / Data Analysis Prototyping (UI/UX) Miro Web Scraping Systems architecture Rapid prototyping with LLMs

Beyond the CV

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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