Overview
The Product Director serves as the strategic leader for a mission-critical product ecosystem, shaping the vision, strategy, and roadmap to drive meaningful business outcomes. This is not a backlog or delivery management role. It's a highly strategic position for someone who brings clarity to ambiguity, influences senior stakeholders, and deeply represents the voice of the customer.
The Product Director integrates and motivates cross-functional teams, builds strong relationships across the organization, and leads the end-to-end product lifecycle with a customer-centric mindset.
Responsibilities
- Define and continuously evolve the product vision and strategy, aligning with broader organizational priorities.
- Convert ambiguous problem spaces into structured, outcome-driven product plans that guide teams and stakeholders.
- Influence executives using clear, data-driven narratives that drive alignment on product direction.
- Lead customer discovery, experimentation, and rapid iteration to validate needs and assumptions.
- Own and manage the product roadmap, ensuring strategic prioritization across customer, business, and technical dimensions.
- Foster deep partnerships across engineering, design, operations, data, and business teams to ensure successful execution.
- Establish and track key success metrics, adjusting strategy based on learnings and feedback loops.
- Act as a player-coach, mentoring team members, elevating product thinking, and building a high-performing product culture.
- Champion innovation through customer insights, lean testing, and iterative development practices.
- Support organizational leaders in advancing engineering culture and implementing adaptive ways of working.
- Demonstrate financial acumen and, where required, manage product-related P&L responsibilities.
Qualifications
Degree or equivalent practical experience.5+ years in product management, including 3+ years with full ownership of a complex enterprise product, platform, or portfolio.Proven success driving business outcomes in strategic product roles, not just managing output or deliverables.Experience leading product strategy in high-growth, ambiguous, or consultative environments (e.g., tech, consulting, digital transformation).Demonstrated ability to define product vision, strategy, and measurable outcomes.Strong history of influencing senior leaders and aligning cross-functional stakeholders.Skilled in customer discovery, agile product delivery, and experimentation frameworks.Familiarity with modern SDLC practices including CI / CD, automated testing, and cloud-native systems.Experience managing enterprise platforms or ERPs is highly valuable.Industry versatility is a plus, with the ability to ramp quickly in new domains (Tech, SaaS, FinTech, HealthTech, etc.).Track record of increasing scope, strategic responsibility, and organizational impact.Core Skills
Executive communication and storytellingWorkshop facilitation in complex, enterprise-level environmentsStrategic thinking and problem framingCustomer discovery and experimentation leadershipData-driven decision-makingTeam development, coaching, and fostering growth mindsetNavigating ambiguity with strong critical thinkingHigh ownership, collaboration, and self-directionOther Requirements
Monthly domestic travel with occasional international travel.