Director of Product Management

3dB Labs•West Chester Township, OH

About The Position

The Director of Product Management / Sceptre Product Manager is the senior product leader responsible for the Sceptre software platform and for maturing Product Management as a consistent company-wide discipline. Sceptre provides shared software capabilities across nearly every major 3dB Labs product, making this role both a product owner for Sceptre and the functional leader who helps individual Product Managers operate as a coordinated portfolio. This role translates company strategy and priorities into actionable roadmaps, clear requirements, deliberate prioritization, and a repeatable Product Management operating model. Individual Product Managers remain accountable for their assigned products; this role establishes standards, mentors and develops those Product Managers, coordinates cross-product dependencies, and elevates portfolio-level tradeoffs to SLT when priorities cannot be resolved within the product organization.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field; advanced technical or business degree is a plus.
Significant product management or technical product leadership experience with complex software, hardware, or integrated technology products, including experience mentoring or leading Product Managers.
Demonstrated ability to build and manage product roadmaps, requirements, prioritization frameworks, backlogs, releases, and lifecycle decisions across multiple products or shared platforms.
Strong technical fluency and a track record of partnering effectively with Software, Systems Engineering, Hardware, QA, PMO, Production, Field Teams, and customer-facing organizations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with defense, RF/spectrum, mission systems, government customers, or other technically complex B2B markets is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Own the Sceptre product roadmap, requirements, releases, and lifecycle across the shared software platform.
Ensure Sceptre roadmap decisions are clearly communicated to Product Managers, Engineering, QA, PMO, Production, Field Team, and leadership.
Serve as the authoritative product voice for Sceptre in leadership and cross-functional planning forums.
Serve as the senior functional leader for Product Management across the company, providing direction, coaching, and accountability to individual Product Managers.
Establish and continuously improve common Product Management standards for roadmaps, requirements, backlog management, prioritization, release planning, lifecycle decisions, and product reporting.
Review product roadmaps for clarity, realism, dependencies, and alignment to company strategy before major leadership decisions.
Maintain visibility into competing product demands that affect shared Sceptre capabilities or Engineering capacity.
Ensure individual product decisions do not unintentionally fragment Sceptre or create avoidable downstream impacts on other products.
Partner with the Software Technical Lead to align product priority with architecture, technical sequencing, and platform constraints.
Own the Sceptre backlog and establish expectations for disciplined backlog management across all products.
Ensure bugs, technical debt, enhancements, and feature requests are intentionally evaluated rather than allowed to accumulate without disposition.
Partner with QA and Engineering to ensure release scope, regression expectations, known risks, and release decisions are deliberate and documented.
Coordinate release timing where Sceptre changes affect multiple products or production baselines.
Ensure Sceptre priorities reflect validated customer problems, Field Team feedback, operational workflows, and company business objectives.
Work with Field Team and Business Dev leadership to distinguish broad market needs from one-off requests and convert validated needs into scalable product requirements.
Provide Product Managers a framework for evaluating customer urgency, mission impact, revenue opportunity, strategic value, technical risk, and engineering capacity.
Ensure product and platform decisions remain connected to intended CONOPS and real operational use.