Director of Product Management

Mixpanel•New York, NY

2h•$298,500 - $373,000

About The Position

As Director of Product Management for Core Product, you will lead a mid-sized team of Product Managers responsible for key revenue-driving areas at Mixpanel. You will own strategy for the group while developing the people and practices that help the team do its best work. Working closely with product leadership, you will set direction, raise the bar on product craft, and create leverage across the organization. Mixpanel’s Product Managers help customers get useful answers from messy product data and make informed decisions about what to build. The team operates with high ownership and trust and uses Mixpanel’s product internally to test its own hypotheses and learn what works. This role calls for a customer-focused product leader who can combine research, market insight, and quantitative and qualitative signals to guide strategy and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

At least 7 years of product management experience.
Experience managing a team of Product Managers and working as a player-coach.
A track record of developing, articulating, and executing product strategies that drove measurable business outcomes.
Experience coaching Product Managers and building strong product practices and rituals.
Deep experience conducting user research and working with customers to test product hypotheses.
Ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative signals to clarify what to build.
Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning cross-functional teams.
Experience using AI tools in product management workflows, such as competitive research or prototyping.

Nice To Haves

Experience using Mixpanel as an end customer.
Experience in B2B SaaS, analytics, or data products.
Experience writing production-grade software.
Experience designing products using tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Abstract.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Product Managers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
Set product strategy and direction across the assigned area using customer conversations, market insight, and Mixpanel’s product data.
Raise the bar on product craft, including written communication, prioritization, experimentation, and storytelling.
Prioritize competing opportunities by balancing customer impact, business value, and team capacity.
Define and track metrics to evaluate shipped work, and course-correct when needed.
Align engineering, design, sales, marketing, and support around a shared roadmap and priorities.
Communicate what the team has shipped to internal and external audiences, explaining customer problems and using customer stories to make value tangible.
Monitor the market and competitive landscape to inform future investment decisions.
Partner with product leadership to shape the product function, its responsibilities, its cross-team relationships, and how it scales.
Help hire and build a high-performing product team.