Director of Product Management

Job Description:

A Director of Product Management is responsible for interfacing and partnering with cross-functional teams such as engineering, sales, and marketing. They are the owner of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a given portfolio of capabilities. This leader plays a critical role in creating the strategy, coordinating delivery, and managing the business value of our core learning offering, including courses, hands-on learning, and assessments. They are accountable for driving user adoption, engagement, and the overall success of the portfolio by connecting business needs to product value.

The successful candidate will be naturally cross-functional and detail oriented, as they will play a pivotal role in ensuring alignment between product management, experience design, engineering, content production, customers, and business stakeholders. They will work with other functional leaders to oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of content production capabilities, discovery and skills mapping features, learning experiences, assessment tools, and more.

Who you're committed to being:

• You enjoy learning and are open to new ways of doing things.
• You are not afraid to be yourself, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them, ask questions, or voice your concerns.
• When communicating you are self-aware, insightful, and proactive.
• You are a team member first and individual contributor second. You are aware that high-performing teams are only as strong as their weakest link.
• You believe in continuous improvement and request frequent feedback from others.

• Improving product delivery by developing operations, processes, frameworks, and resources that can be scaled across organizational boundaries
• Partnering with leaders to establish milestones that balance the development of new product capabilities with security, operational, and/or regulatory risks; influencing end-state architecture and driving secure, resilient, performant and scalable technology solutions
• Influencing senior leaders and executives to gain alignment, secure resources, and overcome obstacles
• Creating vision and strategy for product vertical with your product leaders
• Prioritizing and setting the outcomes with your teams based on the company strategy
• Driving roadmap execution and cross platform teamwork to build the most valuable products for our users
• Fostering a healthy team environment and supporting the development and growth of individual contributors
• Helping to set goals for product organization effectiveness, and helping to lead internal improvement and development activities

• Experience as a people leader at a senior level
• Direct experience in product management or related experience shipping products to market in a SaaS environment
• Experience managing or leading a team of Product Managers or equivalents for SaaS products

• Strong leadership, decision-making, and collaboration skills
• Strong communication skills and experience, such as presenting at company-wide and executive team settings
• Organizational skills with a servant leadership attitude
• Ability to strategize product direction with inputs like competitive analysis, VoC, business reviews and business goals
• Minimum of 12 years of related or equivalent experience; or 8+ years and an advanced degree
• This is a remote role; however, applicants located within 45 miles of our Westlake/Dallas, TX office should expect to work on-site Tuesday through Thursday, with remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This approach enables more effective collaboration, quicker decision-making, and a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility.

• We're a blended workplace, where team members work remotely or in a hybrid setup depending on their role and location
• We're mission driven and guided by our culture pillars
• We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging
• We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration
• We're lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement
• We've got you covered - team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds and more.