Product Director

Inmar Intelligence•Winston-Salem, NC

About The Position

The Product Management Director drives the strategic vision and evolution of one or more major product lines across the full product life cycle, orchestrating alignment across sales and technical teams to ensure new products and features are delivered with the highest quality and in accordance with customer needs. The Director is responsible for providing strategic thought leadership and direction through planning, goal setting and executing process and technology improvements, managing workload and assignments, projecting resource levels needed to scale implementation capabilities, and working with management on planning, budgeting and cost efficiency measures.

Requirements

Bachelors in marketing, business, technology or related area required
10+ years Minimum of 15 years of related work experience; or any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to complete the major responsibilities/essential functions of the position required
Strong experience with managing and mentoring technical teams
Domain knowledge in markets specific to Inmar; such as marketing and retail technology, digital media, financial services or product life-cycle
Proficient with Google Suite and Microsoft Office Suite
Product Owner Certification required
Candidates must have authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

Architect the design and end-to-end execution of business cases, product line pro-forma, or other decision analysis projects, exhibiting mastery of common techniques and frameworks for asking critical questions and conducting analysis.
Independently own multiple parallel product initiatives of high complexity through the full product life cycle; define and manage multi-stage programs of high complexity; make resource trade-off decisions within a product line or program.
Expertly assess the competitive landscape and own the creation of a winning competitive strategy for a major product line, including implications for customer segmentation, profitability, and feasibility; conceive and manage the roadmap for new products, enhancements, and end-of-life.
In collaboration with cross-functional teams, steer the definition and execution of go-to-market strategy for product initiatives and support sales efforts with product line-level expertise.
Establish strategic team-specific OKRs and evaluate/prioritize initiatives to achieve those outcomes.
Assess high-level technical feasibility and tradeoffs to help prioritization efforts.
Communicate with product leadership and key stakeholders frequently and effectively regarding product strategy, and mobilize the cross-functional teams that contribute to product delivery.
Provide cross-functional influence within specific domain(s) of expertise; network with senior internal and external parties in own area of expertise, when needed.
Ensure ideas are heard and respectfully challenge the ideas of others; advocate a position and encourage others with a sense of shared purpose and exciting possibilities.
Drive organizational excellence in talking to a range of customers using their area of product and beyond, always looking for deeper insight.
Anchor decisions in research; use research as a key input into problem and solution definition; proactively define the problems for their area of product the organization should be seeking to understand.
Able to spot product quality risks early and proactively work with partners to ensure final product quality is high; contribute to QA testing strategy of products and features.
Identify and anticipate risks and issues and proactively find solutions to any obstacles.
Role model core values and virtues, serving as a master mentor to guide others as they develop; provide high-level craft mentorship to product associates at all levels across the organization.
Champion talent density by actively participating in the recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding calibration for individual contributors and managers.
Advise on workload planning and strategic resource allocation across teams; partner with people managers to support performance calibration and facilitate career growth pathways for high-potential talent.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all policies and standards