Director of Product Management

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in a product leadership role
• 2+ years of experience as a manager, including coaching, making hiring decisions, and managing reports with a range of skillsets and seniority
• Experience developing and implementing product strategy, objectives, and metrics
• Experience developing and nurturing team culture, balancing high expectations with high psychological safety
• Strong product management craft with demonstrated experience working directly with users to deeply understand their problems and translate them into product requirements
• Technical competence sufficient to support positive-sum engagement with engineering leadership on staffing and architectural decisions
• Experience implementing a range of approaches to managing product development work, including different software development and planning processes
• A bias for action and an entrepreneurial, proactive mindset: the ability to thrive working in fast-paced environments (e.g., startup or similar)
• Strong judgment and analytical skills, including the ability to understand business requirements, integrate qualitative and quantitative metrics, and reconcile short-term needs with long-term strategic goals

Responsibilities:

• Effectively and empathetically lead a team of product managers, maintaining a culture that balances high standards and clear feedback with trust and empathy
• Make difficult prioritization judgment calls, leveraging 80-20 thinking to help the team stay laser-focused on the most critical initiatives and maintaining oversight of backlogs across the development team
• Integrate product strategy and organizational objectives into a high-level roadmap, quarterly development goals, and key metrics
• Partner with engineering leadership on decisions related to staffing, architecture, and platform-wide questions of SLO, standards, and thresholds
• Partner with design leadership to streamline and evolve product operations, implementing tools, processes, and workflows that empower the Product Management Team to work efficiently while fostering creativity and collaboration
• Up-level the team on product management craft, including integrating user research, user analytics, and market research to inform prioritization decisions, validate assumptions, and keep user value at the center of our decision-making process
• Design and lead a communication and collaboration framework with cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring that product managers get the information they need to make strong decisions and that teams across the organization have the information they need about the roadmap
• Drive alignment in the face of tension or differing perspectives – in part, by earning the respect and trust necessary to inspire commitment when consensus is lacking
• Mentor and empower team members to help them reach their career goals, identifying opportunities to tailor responsibilities, assignments, and training to the areas where each individual is most interested in learning and growing