Director of Platform, Product Management

Albert Invent • Oakland, CA

19h

About The Position

This role is responsible for defining and owning the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Albert's platform, which includes Identity and Access Management, Integrations and Automations, Security, Admin interfaces, and Search. The goal is to ensure the platform earns and sustains enterprise trust at scale. The position requires driving platform strategy with both near-term value and long-term scalability in mind, clearly articulating tradeoffs to stakeholders and executive leadership. A key aspect is unlocking enterprise and regulated markets by ensuring platform capabilities meet security, compliance, and administrative requirements, thereby eliminating platform-level deal blockers that hinder large enterprise adoption. The role involves partnering closely with engineering, design, QA, and data teams to deliver robust platform capabilities, engaging directly with enterprise customers to understand their needs, and validating solutions. It also requires aligning the platform roadmap with company objectives by collaborating with other Product Managers, Customer Success, Sales, and Implementation teams, and driving infrastructure cost efficiency through platform reuse and standardization. The Director will serve as the company-wide authority on platform product, shaping planning, review, and shipping processes, and establishing the operating rhythm for the Platform organization. They will lead go-to-market readiness for major platform launches and build and evolve the product management capability within the Platform organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, with the majority focused on platform products in B2B SaaS or cloud environments, ideally from experience in vertical industry SaaS environments.
• Strong technical foundation — comfortable working across APIs, backend systems, security platforms, and Identity and Access Management; able to partner credibly with senior engineering leaders and make informed platform tradeoffs.
• Proven track record owning complex, large-scale platform initiatives with clear accountability for direction, roadmap, and outcomes.
• Familiarity with enterprise authentication and authorization, security, compliance frameworks, and the requirements of large global SaaS deployments across multiple regions.
• Experience working with modern data infrastructure, developer tools, SDKs, and extensibility platforms; familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Experience with AI-driven development practices and processes
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills across product, engineering, and go-to-market teams; able to translate complex enterprise requirements into simple, scalable, and adoptable product experiences.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to engage with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across teams and time zones.

Nice To Haves

• Previous management experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Albert’s platform — spanning Identity and Access Management, Integrations and Automations, Security, Admin interfaces and Search — ensuring the platform earns and sustains enterprise trust at scale.
• Drive platform strategy with both near-term value and long-term scalability in mind, articulating and communicating tradeoffs clearly to internal stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Unlock enterprise and regulated markets by ensuring platform capabilities meet security, compliance, and administrative requirements — eliminating platform-level deal blockers that slow or prevent large enterprise adoption.
• Partner closely with engineering, design, QA, and data teams to define and deliver robust, intuitive platform capabilities that meet the needs of enterprise customers and internal builders alike.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers to uncover platform needs, validate solutions, and ensure Albert enables mission-critical workflows with confidence.
• Align the platform roadmap with company objectives by working closely with other Product Managers, Customer Success, Sales, and Implementation teams to prioritize opportunities and manage tradeoffs.
• Drive infrastructure cost efficiency and sustainable economics including maximizing platform reuse and standardization across Albert’s product surface.
• Serve as the company-wide authority on platform product — shaping how Albert plans, reviews, and ships platform capabilities, and establishing the operating rhythm for the Platform organization.
• Lead go-to-market readiness for major platform launches, communicating priorities, feature releases, and change management across the company and partnering with customer-facing teams to drive successful rollouts and adoption.
• Build and evolve the product management capability within the Platform organization, creating durable practices — roadmap planning, backlog management, cross-functional coordination — that scale with the business.

Benefits

• We care about you. Albert works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We work hard and we play hard.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed