Senior Director of Product
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WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
We are looking for a Senior Director of Product who can continue to accelerate the AI-powered momentum and evolution of a strong team of product managers and designers. The ideal candidate will collaborate cross-functionally to consistently deliver roadmap quality, velocity, and integrity. You will elevate the Product team with outcome-focused leadership, transparent objectives, accountability, and structure. You will be the connective tissue between vision and execution, working seamlessly with the leader of Engineering, go-to-market teams, and senior leadership to focus resources on our highest-leverage investments.
Product Operations & Process Excellence
- Continuously improve product management practices with clarity, prioritization, and cross-functional alignment while preserving what already works and enabling engineering to take full advantage of AI velocity.
- Own and refine the product development lifecycle to clearly delineate ownership of the “what” in Product and the “how” of innovation in Engineering to enable high-velocity delivery without chaos.
- Develop tools, processes, and metrics for prioritization, capacity planning, and release readiness.
Leadership & Team Development
- Build a high-performing product management organization by coaching, developing, and holding team members accountable to deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Foster a unified culture of accountability, customer empathy, and commercial thinking.
- Lead product team performance management, including hiring, feedback, and professional growth.
- Influence executive stakeholders to establish clear product operating principles, decision rights, and investment priorities that enable teams to execute with confidence.
Strategic Alignment & Business Impact
- Modernize customer discovery and product validation practices to ensure that investments solve meaningful customer problems that drive adoption, retention, and business outcomes.
- Build high-trust partnerships with Engineering and other cross-functional senior leadership to create pride of ownership of product outcomes while balancing customer value, technical realities, and delivery speed.
- Help shape monetization by collaborating on pricing, packaging, and onboarding strategies to maximize customer acquisition, expansion, and retention.
- Adapt product operating practices to an AI-accelerated development environment, balancing rapid experimentation with thoughtful product judgment and sustainable execution.
Go-To-Market Integration
- Ensure new product features are launched with strong GTM alignment by enabling marketing, sales, and support with context and value.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing to drive cross-functional planning for product launches and ensure readiness across internal teams.
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