Product Director, Joining

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • New Brunswick, NJ

2d • $150,000 - $258,750 • Onsite

About The Position

We are currently recruiting for a Product Director, Joining role based in New Brunswick, NJ location. The Product Director, Joining is accountable for the portfolio‑level outcomes, performance, and evolution of the Joining product line, from sourcing through onboarding and cross‑boarding. As the Product Line Leader, this role owns product strategy, roadmap prioritization, and value realization across Joining products, while leading and developing Product Managers and analysts, and serving as the primary point of accountability with senior HR and enterprise stakeholders. Operating in a player/coach model, the Director also acts as the hands‑on Product Manager for a core Joining product and leads cross‑functional squads in partnership with HR COEs, Global Services, Digital, Data, and Delivery to drive aligned execution, adoption, and measurable business impact. This role is the single point of accountability for product value — defining the experience, reimagining workflows, shaping the roadmap, and ensuring measurable impact across the employee lifecycle.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product management, digital transformation, or HR technology roles within complex, matrixed organizations
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing people, including performance management, coaching, and capability building
• Proven success owning portfolio‑level product strategy, prioritization, and value delivery, with accountability for measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated expertise in HR digital products and experiences, with strong acumen in HR operating models, global process design, and foundational data structures
• Exceptional strategic thinking and product storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex technical or process concepts into clear, value‑centric direction that drives adoption and impact
• Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and organizational change, influencing senior leaders across HR, Technology, and the business
• Experience managing HR products with a global mindset, navigating regulatory, cultural, and operational nuance
• Strong portfolio and delivery leadership, including managing cross‑functional teams, dependencies, ambiguity, and enterprise‑level risks
• Ability to clearly explain product and technology tradeoffs to senior executives and articulate the business value of HR digital investments
• Proficiency in modern product management and agile delivery practices, translating strategic objectives into outcome‑based roadmaps and continuous value delivery
• Bachelor’s Degree in HR, Business, Services or related field
• Analytical Reasoning
• Cost Management
• Developing Others
• Fact-Based Decision Making
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Inclusive Leadership
• Leadership
• New Program Development
• Performance Measurement
• Product Development
• Product Strategies
• Project Management Methodology (PMM)
• Research and Development
• Software Development Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Supply Chain Management

Nice To Haves

• Deep, hands-on history with Workday and a solid understanding of global best practices, both in direct Workday implementation and design as well as how Workday fits into a broader HR technology ecosystem
• Experience applying AI, automation, or analytics to HR workflows
• Familiarity with talent acquisition to support coherent, end to end process design
• Enterprise-minded: Drives enterprise value first, enabling localized approaches when they are required to deliver the best overall results.
• Outcome-obsessed: Measures success through impact and experience.
• Inclusive leader: Elevates diverse perspectives and shared ownership.
• Strategic simplifier: Cuts complexity and friction.
• Bold innovator: Reimagines HR work using modern product practices.
• Decisive integrator: Connects strategy, experience, technology, and data.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and define the long‑term vision, roadmap, and governance model for the Joining product domain, anchored in enterprise HR vision and goals
• Translate enterprise needs, HR operating models, and workforce insights into cohesive end‑to‑end product experiences and scalable design patterns, including journeys, redesigned workflows, business rules, decision logic, and role‑based interactions
• Establish and track outcome‑based success metrics that measure product performance, data integrity, efficiency, and employee experience
• Own the business case for all Joining product investments, including value hypotheses, benefits realization, and explicit trade‑off decisions
• Own the product lifecycle and roadmap across Innovate → Grow → Sustain → Sunset, balancing near‑term delivery with long‑term platform and experience evolution.
• Prioritize investments using value, feasibility, risk, compliance, and experience impact, ensuring decisions are grounded in data and leading indicators
• Provide strategic direction and outcome accountability for discovery, design, and delivery across Joining products, in close partnership with Product Delivery, Experience Design, Data, and Engineering teams
• Represent the voice of key personas—employees, people managers, candidates, and HR partners—using continuous discovery to translate insights into prioritized product outcomes
• Own cross‑product prioritization and capacity trade‑offs across the Joining portfolio
• Hold final decision authority when product‑level priorities conflict
• Ensure investment decisions optimize enterprise value, not local or functional outcomes
• Partner with HR COEs, Experience Design, Global Experience Owners, Product Delivery and IT to drive delivery excellence, manage dependencies, and ensure successful execution of product initiatives
• Influence senior stakeholders on technology, data, and process implications—advising on risks, tradeoffs, and strategic investment priorities
• Represent your product domains in governance forums, enterprise planning cycles, and cross pillar product integration efforts
• Coach and develop a team of product managers and analysts, elevating product craft, data fluency, and HR technology expertise
• Foster a culture of innovation by bringing market insights, product best practices and C.E.O. behaviors, and emerging HR technology trends into the strategy and design process

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• 10 days Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

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