Director, Product
Opportunity & Impact
Job Responsibilities
- Lead + Scale the Product Team: Manage and develop a team of Product Managers, building a culture of accountability, autonomy, and customer obsession. Establish strong team rhythms (kickoffs, scope reviews, roadmap planning) to increase hygiene, predictability, and execution. Empower Product Managers to make decisions without bottlenecks from executives, enabling faster and better decisions. Ensure product operations support decision-making, not just reporting.
- Build Product Strategy & Vision: Collaborate with CPO to define and communicate long-term product strategy across the organization. Translate company objectives into clear product priorities and success metrics. Lead competitive analysis and market research to inform strategic decisions.
- Drive the Roadmap: Own the customer-facing roadmap, ensuring alignment with company strategy and market opportunities. Anticipate and prioritize new platform opportunities, especially as composable unlocks new partnerships and integrations. Able to communicate the roadmap externally and internally.
- Drive Cross-Functional Partnership & Alignments: Work closely with GTM teams on launches, pricing, packaging, and partnerships. Build trusted relationships with Engineering and Design to deliver high-quality outcomes. Facilitate regular stakeholder alignment to ensure product, engineering, design, and business priorities are synchronized. Participate and establish clear communication channels and decision-making frameworks across teams. Leader resolution of cross-functional conflicts and trade-off decisions. Ensure launch readiness and own customer advisory/feedback loops.
- Bring Product Horsepower: Step into complex challenges (pricing, interoperability, or scaling rituals) to close critical gaps in leadership bandwidth. Represent the product org in company-wide strategic conversations. Able to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and drive them through.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of software product management experience, including 5+ years of people management, with a proven track record of leading and developing product management teams of at least 3 PMs
- Experience in healthcare, interoperability, or complex ecosystem product management is highly preferred
- Demonstrated excellence in establishing strong team processes and operational rhythms that drive predictability and results
- Highly skilled at navigating ambiguity and bringing clarity
- Strong communication, both written and oral, with a cultural focus on context-sharing as much as possible
- Strategic thinking ability to connect market trends, customer needs, and company strategy into compelling product vision and roadmaps
- Strong operational skills in running product planning cycles, balancing short-term execution with long-term strategic bets
- Able to balance strategic narrative-building with operational execution – able to think high/low to connect the dots between vision and execution and different time horizons (plan near term + long term)
- Exceptional people leadership capabilities as a coach and culture-builder who can grow PMs and foster team autonomy
- Business acumen, including comfort with pricing strategies, go-to-market alignment, and cross-functional leadership
- Experience using product analytics and metrics, user research, and market data to inform product decisions and measure success
- Proven ability to influence and align senior leadership, customers, and cross-functional partners without direct authority
- Technical fluency sufficient to collaborate effectively with engineering teams and understand technical trade-offs
- Experience leading organizational transformation and process improvements during periods of company growth
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Previous experience working in a fast-paced startup environment is preferred
Software Platform/Tools
- Required: Jira/Atlassian, Figma, Pendo
- Preferred: Lovale, Replit or equivalent
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