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Carl KirkhouseCK

Carl Kirkhouse

Data Product Lead

€941/day
Bristol, GB
8-15 years
AI Agent
Big Data
Metadata
Product management
User Experience Design

Average response time: 1 hour

About Carl

I'm a passionate, user focused, and ambitious global Product Manager / Lead who enjoys shipping great products to users. I have a track record of leading multiple squads across multiple products, including 0-1 product launches and releases to over 3m users. With an excellent ability to bring clarity to products and teams, prioritise and trade-off features, and present vision and strategy to stakeholders. I'm confident I can lead products and teams that solve problems and ensure users have great experiences. I work transnationally, and with experience across Data, AI, Cybersecurity, and Fintech sectors, I collaborate with business and technical teams easily. One of my core strengths is leadership and mentoring; I directly lead a multinational team, as well as mentoring colleagues in other departments, developing a passion for coaching and empowering others.
Aerospace
Banking and Financial Services

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Japanese

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Bristol (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Airbus
    Data Product Lead
    November 2023 - Today (2 years and 9 months)
    Bristol, United Kingdom
    • Lead the Data & Analytics product group for Cybersecurity at Airbus
    Group level, overseeing global data strategy, governance, and
    visualisation
    • Spearheading an €8~ million Data Hub & AI 0-1 product launch under
    my full ownership, transforming Airbus’ Cybersecurity data strategy
    under a data mesh organisation
    • Launched a product for advanced Agentic AI using models like Claude
    Opus 4.8 to create a platform to automate workflows for security &
    software engineers using forefront patterns like custom Skills, MCP,
    and sandboxed dynamic code execution
    • Lead 6 squads across 5 products, including Product Owners,
    Software/Data Engineers, Analysts, and Architects to foster
    collaboration and product innovation
    • Managing 6 squads totalling 28 people, including directly a
    multinational team of 6 as well as indirectly leading 22 subcontractors
    • Led 5+ data visualisation releases on Splunk, Palantir Foundry, and Qlik
    Sense, aligning dashboards with user needs and behaviours
    • Transformed agile practices across the squads, boosting development
    velocity by 30% in my first year
    • Drove a 0–1, multi-year product roadmap and securing buy-in from Vlevel executives and cross-functional teams
    • Nominated for the Digital Talent Development programme as one of
    only 20 nominees across Airbus Digital globally
    AI Agent Product management Big Data Product Development product owner
  • Deposit Protection Service
    Product Manager
    January 2022 - November 2023 (1 year and 10 months)
    Bristol, UK
    • Led launches for internal and external web apps for over 3m users
    across the UK
    • Drove 4 product releases through their full life cycle from vision,
    research to launch and post-launch analytics
    • Performed research and analysis on customer behaviour and pain
    points which drove key decisions and designs
    • Implemented a data driven approach with OKRs and KPIs to measure
    success in terms of user engagement and FTE savings
    • Established the product roadmap from inception and innovated
    documentation for discovery, requirements, and UAT
    Product management User Experience Design User Research Agile method
  • Computershare
    Data / Reporting Analyst
    January 2018 - January 2022 (4 years)
    Bristol, UK
    • Contributed in 2 product lifecycles by completing the full data analysis and finding over $2.5m in additional revenue which was previously overlooked
    • Partnered with Product Managers to complete data analysis on products/projects with over $50m of client funds involved
    • Collected data from Salesforce, CRMoD, and SharePoint to create effective MI reporting for senior-level stakeholders globally
    • Prepared internal reports for multiple business units as well as assisting in reports for the FCA (Sector Regulator)
    • Key team member for offshoring processes internationally by creating documentation for, training and supervising a 4-person team based in India
    • Developed scripts to reduce manual processes, thereby reducing errors and improving efficiency by saving 1 FTE
    Data analysis Data visualization Reporting
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Education

  • Digital Leadership Talent Programme
    Cornell University
    2025
    Digital Leadership Talent Programme
  • Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis BCS
    The Chartered Institute for IT
    2023
    Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis BCS
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