Director of Product Execution

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

📋 Description

• Manage the product portfolio overview, encompassing committed, in-progress, at-risk, and deferred tasks.

• Oversee the complete prioritization process, which includes cadence, criteria, ranking discussions, and published results.

• Establish and enforce readiness standards for projects entering the planning phase.

• Promote scope discipline by segmenting large initiatives into independent, value-generating increments and phasing out low-value tasks.

• Identify and address cross-squad dependencies, sequencing issues, and capacity conflicts.

• Direct the product operational cadence, covering planning, prioritization, roadmap evaluations, launch readiness, and retrospectives.

• Manage product launches from start to finish, including preparation, enablement, communication, and post-launch evaluation.

• Mentor, coach, and develop the product management team, focusing on hiring, performance, and career progression.

• Establish standards for product craftsmanship, including problem definition, discovery, requirements gathering, and success metrics.

• Assess the work of product managers and provide constructive feedback.

• Define and monitor execution metrics such as delivery predictability, cycle time, scope changes, and abandoned work efforts.

• Communicate progress to engineering leadership, the strategy organization, and the executive team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in product management.

• More than 3 years of experience leading product managers or teams.

• Proven track record in delivering complex B2B software, preferably in SaaS, fintech, regtech, compliance, trust and safety, or similar sectors where precision and defensibility are as crucial as speed.

• Demonstrated ownership of a multi-team product portfolio, including managing work sequences with clear cross-team dependencies and balancing capacity across competing priorities.

• Experience in managing a prioritization process amid competing domains.

• Experience implementing a strategy you didn't create and translating direction into tangible, measured outcomes.

• Experience collaborating with an engineering counterpart as an equal.

• Proficient in modern delivery practices, including incremental delivery, iterative planning, and early-value release strategies.

• Sufficient technical knowledge to engage credibly in discussions regarding architecture and platform trade-offs.

• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to define and implement delivery and outcome metrics.

• Excellent written communication abilities.

• Comfortable navigating organizational change.

• A four-year college degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

• International remote work is not supported.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• A team that is genuinely committed to your success.