Director, Product Management

Assent • Boston, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Product Management at Assent is a strategic leader and the primary architect of product success for our high-growth B2B SaaS data network platform. You are accountable for the long-term health, profitability, and market positioning of a suite of emerging product capabilities.
Beyond individual product delivery, you will lead the evolution of Assent’s product culture—mentoring and building high-performing teams, making high-stakes investment decisions, and ensuring that our data-centric vision translates into scalable commercial value. Operating at the intersection of global supply chains, sustainability, and AI, you will navigate a uniquely complex domain where your leadership directly impacts how the world’s largest manufacturers operate responsibly.
Assent operates in a uniquely complex and meaningful domain at the intersection of global supply chains, product compliance, sustainability, and data. Our products increasingly rely on large-scale data, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities to help customers navigate evolving regulatory requirements with confidence. If you are energized by solving hard, real-world problems with real consequences, and motivated by building products that make the world more responsible and transparent, this role offers both challenge and purpose.

Requirements

• SaaS Leadership: 10+ years of Product Management experience, with at least 3+ years in a leadership/people management role within a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.
• Commercial Mastery: Proven success in managing complex product portfolios with direct impact on Bookings, ARR, and Gross Retention.
• AI/Data Strategic Literacy: A track record of launching data-centric products. You don't just know the buzzwords; you know how to build business models around AI/ML and large-scale data networks.
• Advanced Communication: Masterful ability to tell a story with data. You can command a room of internal executives or external global partners with clarity and credibility.
• People Development: A passion for building "empowered" product teams. You have a proven ability to coach PMs and Sr. PMs to their next level of performance.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering; MBA highly preferred.
• Global Mobility: Ability to travel up to 25% to engage with customers and global teams.
• Mission-Driven: A genuine desire to build products that create a resilient, sustainable, and positive real-world impact.

Nice To Haves

• Pragmatic Marketing or similar executive leadership certification is expected.
• Complex Domain Expertise: Deep experience in supply chain, ESG, or regulated manufacturing industries. You understand the gravity of BOMs, ERP integrations, and global compliance.

Responsibilities

• Visionary Strategy: Define and evangelize the multi-year product vision. Ensure your portfolio’s strategy doesn't just align with business objectives but actively drives Assent’s market leadership.
• Investment & P&L Accountability: Own the "buy, build, or partner" decisions. Develop rigorous business cases for spend allocation, balancing short-term revenue needs with long-term platform scalability and margin health.
• Market Shaping: Use deep market intelligence and "Voice of the Customer" (VOC) insights to anticipate regulatory shifts and position Assent as the definitive solution.
• High-Integrity Roadmap Governance: Oversee the translation of high-level strategy into cohesive, high-integrity roadmaps across multiple teams. Ensure seamless dependency management and sequencing across the broader Assent ecosystem. Partner closely with Engineering leads to ensure your team is crafting features that develop into implementable stories. Manage reporting of progress in partnership with Engineering.
• Lifecycle & Platform Evolution: Lead the transition from legacy systems to emerging data-network architectures. Direct migration strategies that protect customer value while accelerating technical innovation.
• Product Craft Mentorship: Elevate the "Product Craft" within the organization. Standardize discovery processes, documentation excellence, and data-driven decision-making frameworks to ensure solutions are viable and scalable.
• Strategic AI Integration: Direct the integration of AI/ML and advanced analytics across the platform. Identify where intelligent automation creates a "moat" for Assent and a transformative experience for our customers.
• Data Ecosystem Stewardship: Partner with Engineering and Data leadership to ensure our data architecture supports resilient, trustworthy, and transparent product capabilities in an era of imperfect global data.
• Commercial Synergy: Partner with the Leadership Team, Sales, and Marketing to define global GTM and New Product Introduction strategies, A/B product led growth testing and expansion tactics.
• Engineering Delivery Partnership: Partner closely with Engineering on reporting, success metrics and the development process.
• Evangelism & Influence: Act as a high-profile ambassador for Assent. Present to "C-Suite" stakeholders at Tier-1 global customers and influence internal alignment across Engineering, Support, and Customer Success.
• Operational Health & Escalation: Provide executive oversight for critical escalations, ensuring immediate resolutions reinforce long-term architectural integrity and customer trust.

Benefits

• Wellness: We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.
• Financial Benefits: It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.
• Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.
• Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director