Director, Product Management
Overview
The Product Management Director will help define, execute against, and bring to market the product roadmap for our various proprietary software product applications. This role requires a keen understanding of our external clients’ and internal stakeholders’ needs combined with a deep technical understanding of our products and how they are used, to be a keystone between the business’ needs and product capability. This highly technical role spans strategic thought as well as tactical programs execution. This US-based position is remote and will report to the Senior Director, AI Product Management.
Responsibilities
For assigned software products, the Product Management Director will:
- Own the Product Vision. Define and evolve the product roadmap across multiple applications, aligning with business goals and market needs
- Facilitate strategy conversations and be a caretaker of the business’ product roadmap
- Harvest and curate both external client inputs and internal stakeholder inputs, and synthesize those into discrete, prioritized requirement stories
- Act as the voice of the customer turning those various inputs into coherent product requirements, and product positioning strategy
- Manage the prioritized backlog of requests, ideas, and defects - and condition each into articulated tickets that are pushed into Engineering and QA
- Define business cases, scope, market requirements, and acceptance criteria/success metrics for releases within the stated scope
- Serve as Product Owner role through agile software development processes. Partner with UX design, development, data operations, architecture, QA, and IT Project Management to execute against organizational priorities
- Create rapid prototype apps with AI to demonstrate front end design and user workflows
- Support cross-functional operations team readiness (training, certification) as new products and releases are brought to market
- Become a company expert on external buyers and user personas, including how they buy / use the products, buying criteria and market forces
- The ideal candidate must be a self-starter who can independently drive strategic product conversations, proactively gather and synthesize diverse inputs, and take full ownership of the product lifecycle from ideation through execution
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Evaluate 3rd party software providers’ technology and product messaging
- Conduct and benchmark technical and positioning competitive analysis and communicate learnings across the organization
- Generate original authored, external client- and internal stakeholder-facing featured article, selling and training content consistent with our positioning and highlighting key product features
- Understand core usage metrics of all solutions within the defined scope. Understand core business metrics such as revenue, billed and unbilled labor hours, gross margins, etc.
- Support RFP/RFI responses
Qualifications
Experience and Requirements:
- Must have 10+ years of professional experience, including 8+ years of progressive experience as a product manager
- Must have a strong technical background – Python, React, Github, and agentic frameworks preferred
- Experience with SaaS, AI / Machine Learning, information governance, or electronic discovery (eDiscovery) spaces
- Must have experience in an agile software development environment in a Product Owner role with working knowledge of agile processes (preferably experience with the Scrum framework).
- Must be able to prove depth of knowledge in software development lifecycle
- Must be able to demonstrate effectiveness at writing business requirements
- Must have outstanding references
- Preference working in global operations and selling organizations
Other Requirements:
- The Product Management Director is someone who thrives amidst the challenges of a fast-paced, start-up style environment (within the larger Consilio entity) where there is perpetuall