Director of Product Management

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

📋 Description

• Define and convey the vision and strategy for the product.

• Convert product direction into a long-term roadmap.

• Establish practices for product management, including operating rhythms and agile methodologies.

• Enhance prioritization, backlog management, planning, and decision-making processes.

• Facilitate the transition from a traditional desktop application to a contemporary web-based product.

• Balance innovation with technical investment, customer commitments, and business priorities.

• Lead, coach, and nurture a team of three Product Owners.

• Interact directly with customers to grasp their workflows, challenges, and priorities.

• Present the product direction while integrating customer feedback into strategy and planning.

• Collaborate with Development, Sales, Marketing, and industry leadership.

• Provide product insights for positioning, packaging, pricing, strategic accounts, and growth discussions.

• Report to the CEO, aligning product direction with customer needs, market opportunities, and business growth.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading a product team.

• Background in establishing product management structures, practices, and accountability.

• Experience in coaching and developing Product Owners or Product Managers.

• Ability to offer practical, hands-on product guidance.

• Capacity to translate customer needs, market opportunities, and business objectives into product strategy and an actionable roadmap.

• Experience in prioritizing competing needs and making informed trade-offs.

• Familiarity with agile principles, backlog management, roadmapping, prioritization, and product lifecycle practices.

• Experience engaging directly with customers and leveraging insights for product decisions.

• Ability to present product direction and establish credibility with customers and industry stakeholders.

• Cross-functional leadership experience across Development, Sales, Marketing, and leadership teams.

• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to influence decisions and constructively challenge assumptions.

• Curiosity about specialized markets and emerging technologies.

• Interest in AI-assisted development and AI-enabled product practices.

• Eagerness to learn, experiment, and assist teams in adopting new working methods.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the Product function with the autonomy to enhance roadmapping, prioritization, and agile methodologies.

• Opportunity to lead the transition from a legacy desktop application to a state-of-the-art web-based platform.

• Opportunity to develop AI-enabled product practices, including the AI-DLC methodology.

• Direct visibility and influence through reporting to the CEO.

• Entrepreneurial culture, lean environment, and freedom to be creative and inquisitive.

• High performance and hard work are recognized and rewarded.

• Opportunities for leadership development.

• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.

• Accommodations available upon request for candidates with disabilities.

• Virtual interview process.