Director of Product

Job Description:

At Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology. Everyone should have access to the skills of tomorrow. That technology can make the world a better place. Through the work we do every day, we empower the people who power our world. And we don’t let fear, egos or drama distract us from our mission. We’re adults, and we treat each other that way. We have the autonomy to do our jobs, we value transparency and trust in each other to do the right thing. We thrive in an environment with creativity around every corner, challenges that keep us on our toes, and peers who inspire us to be the best we can be. We bring different viewpoints, backgrounds and experiences, and united by our mission to advance the world’s tech workforce

Job Summary

A Director of Product Management is responsible for interfacing and partnering with cross-functional teams - such as engineering, sales, and marketing. They are the owner of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. They are responsible for teams that help users find content & features creating the foundations of strong user engagement.

As a leader in this space, you will be impacting the user adoption, engagement and overall success of the product by connecting users to the product value. 

Duties/responsibilities

• Improving product delivery by developing operations, processes, frameworks, and resources that can be scaled across organizational boundaries

  
  

• Partnering with leaders to establish milestones that balance the development of new product capabilities with security, operational, and/or regulatory risks; influencing end-state architecture and driving secure, resilient, performant and scalable technology solutions

  
  

• Influencing senior leaders and executives to gain alignment, secure resources, and overcome obstacles

  
  

• Creating vision and strategy for product vertical with your product leaders

  
  

• Prioritizing and setting the outcomes with your teams based on the company strategy

  
  

• Driving roadmap execution and cross platform teamwork to build the most valuable product our users

  
  

• Prioritize customer needs using data to drive and execute product roadmap; lead and launch learner-facing SaaS capabilities to deliver end-to-end results in partnership with content, sales, marketing, engineering, customer success, design orgs

  
  

• Develop and advance learner-facing capabilities; contribute to strategic vision, and relentless focus on sharp execution, analytical rigor and excellent communication

  
  

• Formulate and execute to metrics that contribute to business outcome for our customers and business

  
  

• Lead, inspire, and coach a talented team of product managers

  
  

Minimum qualifications/skills

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of related or equivalent experience.

  
  

• Requires having been a people leader at a senior level managing product managers.

  
  

• 2-5+ years of management experience leading other product managers

  
  

• MBA preferred. Degree in computer science, math, or other related STEM majors

  
  

• Direct experience in product management or related experience shipping products to market in SaaS environment

  
  

• Experience managing or leading a team of Product Managers or equivalents for SaaS products

  
  

• Strong leadership, decision-making, and collaboration skills

  
  

• Organizational skills with servant leadership attitude

  
  

• Ability to strategize product direction with inputs like competitive analysis, VoC, business reviews and business goals

  
  

• Experience leading engineering discussion around technology decisions and strategy related to a product

  
  

• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product

  
  

• Demonstrated ability to develop, execute, and own product roadmap strategy and definition

  
  

• Ability to influence stakeholders to align around prioritization decisions

  
  

• Strong experience in using analytics to inform and communicate data-driven product strategies

  
  

• Strong skills leading multiple complex projects simultaneously

  
  

Preferred qualifications/skills

• 5+ years of end-to-end SaaS product delivery experience

  
  

• Proven experience working with ambiguity and being able to build strategic direction and roadmap

  
  

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work.
Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.

"Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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For more information on Pluralsight’s commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging reporthere.

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