Associate Director, Digital Product Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Integrate with intricate, high-priority products and product teams to enhance product management practices and expedite the adoption of the Digital Product Operating Model (DPOM).

• Act as a senior hands-on player-coach to Digital Product Managers (DPMs) and members of cross-functional teams.

• Guide DPMs in complex problem framing, discovery, product strategy, outcome-based roadmaps, OKRs, KPIs, trade-offs, stakeholder alignment, and value measurement.

• Temporarily assume product management responsibilities in the absence of a DPM, which includes shaping product direction, aligning stakeholders, defining outcomes, and assisting with roadmap, capacity, and prioritization decisions.

• Assist teams in utilizing user insights, product data, business context, and experimentation to make evidence-based decisions.

• Empower cross-functional teams to implement the Digital Product Operating Model effectively.

• Collaborate with business, technology, design, data, compliance, quality, and related product teams.

• Link enterprise and business strategy to product strategy, outcomes, and investment decisions.

• Support product vision, strategy, roadmaps, OKRs, KPIs, investment recommendations, and value realization plans.

• Address cross-product dependencies, sequencing issues, and prioritization conflicts.

• Influence senior stakeholders without formal authority and convey product direction, risks, trade-offs, and decisions.

• Conduct Catalyst engagements, which encompass assessment, planning, coaching, adoption measurement, transition planning, and learning capture.

• Define and monitor success measures for engagements.

• Present insights, risks, and recommendations to the Director of Product Management Catalysts and leadership of the Product Management Hub.

• Transform lessons learned from embedded work into reusable practices, templates, and improvements for the playbook.

⛳️ Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 3 years of experience in Digital Product, Product Management, Product Leadership, Digital Transformation, Technology Strategy, or related fields, OR a Master’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience, OR a Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of relevant experience, OR an Associate’s degree with 12 years of relevant experience, OR a High school diploma/GED with 14 years of relevant experience.

• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in digital product management is preferred.

• Proven experience in owning or leading complex, interdependent, high-priority products or product initiatives.

• Capability to coach, mentor, or enhance the skills of product managers, product owners, business partners, and cross-functional team members.

• Strong expertise in product management, including problem definition, product discovery, roadmap development, OKRs, KPIs, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, investment trade-offs, and value realization.

• Experience in influencing senior stakeholders in business, technology, product, engineering, data, compliance, and related areas without formal authority.

• Ability to function as a senior hands-on player-coach.

• Skill in transitioning teams from output-oriented delivery to outcome-focused product management.

• Strong judgment in ambiguous circumstances, including framing complex problems, resolving dependencies, making trade-off recommendations, and developing practical solutions.

• Preferred experience in contributing to product operating models, playbooks, standards, templates, training, or adoption methodologies.

• Experience in healthcare, biotechnology, or other regulated industries is preferred; experience in high-tech, digital, consulting, or product-led organizations is also encouraged.

• Familiarity with AI-native product development, generative AI workflows, responsible AI principles, and the role of AI in product management is preferred.

• Sponsorship for this position is not assured.

🏝️ Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package for employees, which includes a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

• A discretionary annual bonus program.

• Stock-based long-term incentives.

• Award-winning time-off plans.

• Flexible work models where applicable.

• Opportunities for career development.

• Support for work/life balance.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.