Cornerstone is seeking a
Senior Director of Product Management to lead our Skills product line. This is a senior product leadership role. You will own the strategy, go-to-market, and roadmap for Cornerstone's Intelligence+ and Skills Products and Platform.
You will set the strategy and roadmap and own the end-to-end performance of these products, working with sales, marketing, implementation, support, customer success, and product operations to drive customer and financial success. You will set priorities and desired outcomes for your team of Product Manager, collaborate with them on build priorities, and confirm that delivered work meets the customer's need.
You will lead the Skills product managers and partner across engineering, data science, content, marketing, sales, customer success, and services to move capabilities from market insight through discovery, launch, adoption, and revenue. The ideal candidate brings deep enterprise product experience, a proven record of building and taking to market products that grow revenue, and the judgment to balance long-term platform strategy with the operational rigor required to ship. Experience with AI-native, agentic, and skills-based capabilities is essential to success in this role.
** Preference for hybrid in one of these offices: Dublin, CA Santa Monica, CA or New YorkIn this role you will...Set vision & strategy- Own the product vision and multi-year roadmap for Cornerstone Intelligence+ and Skills Products, grounded in market trends, competitive dynamics, customer needs, and Cornerstone's strategy.
- Define how Cornerstone's Skills products work together as a coherent skills and workforce intelligence foundation for the broader Cornerstone Workforce AI platform and the People Graph.
- Make and defend prioritization decisions with clear rationale, translating strategy into a sequenced roadmap and well-formed bets.
- Frame the business case for major investments, including market sizing, opportunity, pricing implications, and expected outcomes, and align leadership and cross-functional partners behind it.
- Champion AI and agentic innovation where it creates real customer value, integrating intelligent capabilities responsibly and with appropriate guardrails.
Own go-to-market & growth- Own the go-to-market strategy for the Skills portfolio, including positioning, packaging, pricing input, and competitive differentiation, in partnership with product marketing and sales.
- Own the end-to-end performance of these products, working with sales, marketing, implementation, support, customer success, and product operations to drive customer and financial success, with clear targets for bookings, attach, expansion, and retention.
- Serve as the external face of the Skills product line with customers, prospects, analysts, and partners, and support strategic deals and executive briefings.
- Equip sales, solution consulting, and customer success with the narrative, enablement, and proof points they need to win and grow accounts.
- Monitor the market for skills intelligence, job architecture, job description, and labor market intelligence solutions, and translate competitive and partner signals into strategy and roadmap decisions.
Lead & grow the team- Set priorities and desired outcomes for the Skills product managers, collaborate with them on build priorities, and confirm that delivered work meets the customer's need.
- Ensure a consistent, high-quality design experience across both product lines served by the design lead.
- Establish product standards and operating cadences for discovery, planning, release, and outcome review across the team.
- Create clarity and alignment across product, engineering, data science, and design leadership, and represent the Skills portfolio to executives and customers.
Discover, experiment & measure- Drive rigorous customer discovery, engaging directly with HR, talent, and learning leaders to validate problems and use cases before committing to solutions.
- Run a hypothesis-driven practice: define success metrics, instrument products, and use experimentation to learn quickly and de-risk decisions.
- Define and own the success metrics and North Star for the portfolio, spanning adoption, data readiness, time-to-value, retention, and revenue, and use them to guide investment.
- Translate customer, field, and market feedback into clear requirements, prioritized backlogs, and release plans.
Deliver with rigor- Drive cross-functional delivery across product, engineering, design, data science, content, customer success, services, and go-to-market teams.
- Establish strong operating cadences for milestone reviews, dependency management, risk tracking, and outcome measurement, surfacing risks early.
- Partner with go-to-market and customer-facing teams on rollout planning, launch enablement, implementation readiness, and feedback loops.
- Ensure capabilities are scalable, secure, compliant, and practical for adoption in enterprise environments, meeting expectations for security, privacy, data governance, and responsible AI.
What Success Looks Like:- A clear, compelling vision, go-to-market strategy, and roadmap for the Skills portfolio that leadership, customers, the field, and the team understand and rally behind.
- Revenue growth and strong commercial performance across the Skills portfolio, with a winning position against competitors.
- Cornerstone Intelligence+ and Skills products recognized by customers as the fastest path to a trusted, skills-based workforce foundation informed by real labor market data.
- A high-performing product and design team that ships quality work on a predictable cadence and grows in capability.
- Decisions grounded in evidence from discovery, experimentation, market data, and metrics rather than opinion alone.
- AI and agentic capabilities launched in ways that are trusted, usable, and outcome-oriented, with security, compliance, and data governance embedded from the start.
You've got what it takes if you have...- 12+ years in product management, including significant experience leading product managers or product owners, in enterprise software, Agentic AI, or platform organizations.
- A track record of owning product vision, strategy, and go-to-market for a multi-product portfolio, with accountability for revenue and growth.
- Proven go-to-market strength: positioning, packaging, pricing, launch, and sales enablement, and comfort engaging customers, analysts, and executives directly.
- Demonstrated people leadership, including hiring, coaching, and growing product and design talent and setting team standards.
- Strong discovery and experimentation skills: customer research, hypothesis-driven development, metrics definition, and testing.
- Proven ability to lead execution across complex cross-functional organizations with operational rigor and release discipline.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, UX, data science, marketing, sales, services, and customer success, up to the executive level.
- Experience delivering products in secure, enterprise-grade environments where trust, reliability, and scalability matter, including familiarity with security, privacy, and data governance.
An extra dose of awesome if...- Experience with skills taxonomies and ontologies, job architecture, job descriptions, labor market intelligence, or workforce planning solutions.
- Experience in HR technology, talent management, or learning domains.
- Experience delivering AI-native products, intelligent agents, copilots, or workflow-based AI in enterprise settings.
- Experience with data products, labor market data, or analytics and insights products.
- Familiarity with regulated, security-conscious, or compliance-driven environments and enterprise governance models for AI and data.
