Product Technology M&A Director

As a Product Technology Director, you’ll focus on evaluating software platforms through an integrated commercial, operational, and financial lens. The team provides investment-grade insights that tie product architecture and roadmap credibility directly to valuation, growth, and margin sustainability. Lead Product Technology Diligence engagements for Private Equity and strategic clients, assessing software platforms across technical architecture, product strategy, operational scalability, and financial sustainability. This role requires the ability to tie commercial, operational, and financial performance of a software platform directly to its technology architecture and roadmap.

From day one, you’ll be empowered to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:

Lead buy-side and sell-side Product Technology Diligence engagements

Assess product architecture, scalability, security, and extensibility

Evaluate roadmap credibility against commercial growth thesis

Analyze technical debt and modernization requirements

Evaluate AI and data platform maturity

Assess DevOps, SDLC maturity, and engineering productivity

Tie product roadmap to ARR growth, NRR expansion, pricing power, and customer acquisition efficiency

Assess technical enablers and constraints impacting margin structure and hosting costs

Evaluate engineering cost base and R&D investment requirements

Develop forward-looking capital investment views and EBITDA impact assessments

Support valuation narratives based on platform strength and scalability

Evaluate engineering organization structure and scalability

Assess product management maturity and governance

Analyze release cadence and roadmap execution risk

Identify talent gaps and key person dependencies

Lead management interviews (CTO, CPO, Engineering Leads)

Develop executive-ready reports with investment implications

Present findings to PE deal teams and portfolio leadership

Mentor Managers and Senior Consultants

Support proposal development and commercial structuring

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree required

10+ years in product architecture leadership, product tech diligence, CTO advisory, or software platform strategy

Experience in PE-backed or high-growth SaaS environments

Deep understanding of SaaS business models, cloud-native architectures, data platforms, and DevOps

Experience tying technology findings to commercial and financial outcomes

Executive presence

Strong commercial acumen

Ability to translate architecture into valuation impact

Structured and hypothesis-driven thinker

Ability to operate in deal timelines

Ability to travel up to 50%

The base salary range for this position is between $239,160 and $309,412. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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