Sr. Director of Product Execution

RELX•Alpharetta, GA

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Insurance vertical, we provide customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Our insurance risk solutions help drive better data-driven decisions across the insurance policy lifecycle all while reducing risk. At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we help insurance carriers, automakers and law enforcement agencies as well as healthcare payers and providers make faster and more informed decisions — in fact, our data and analytics support more than half a million decisions daily. We do this with the utmost respect for data privacy, transparency and responsible use — in pursuit of helping our customers better manage risk and deliver better outcomes to people and communities. We work together with our customers for a safer and smarter tomorrow. The Senior Director of Product Execution will lead and champion the research, design, requirements, and execution practices across the LNRS Insurance and Healthcare product organization. This role is responsible for organization structure, team and talent development, as well as resource allocation and execution across the product lifecycle. This position requires a positive, low-ego, and team-centric leader with strong forward-thinking product acumen. In the age of AI, where product functions are blurring week-over-week, this leader must be data-driven and impact focused. Reporting into this role are highly talented and ambitious directors who own teams across each practice. Therefore, this leader must excel at communication, vision clarity, and delegation, with experience managing upwards and downwards across a variety of personality types and backgrounds. This role requires a history of wearing multiple hats across product offerings, ideally in a highly governed business. This includes experience with direct system-to-system data products as well as software solutions and platforms. As a function, this work impacts almost every single new product offering across the business. This role reports into the VP level and works in tight collaboration with senior leadership.

Requirements

10+ years of Product Management experience
5+ years leading multi-layered product organizations, including people leaders
Demonstrated success delivering complex: API-first or platform-based systems Enterprise SaaS platforms Data-intensive, analytics-driven, or AI-enabled products
Experience operating within highly governed, regulated, or compliance-driven environments
Strong technical fluency across system integrations, data architecture, and enterprise platforms
Proven track record of scaling product execution across multiple teams and verticals
Experience leading or partnering closely with UX and research organizations
Demonstrated ability to improve operating rigor while increasing delivery velocity
Exceptional communication skills across executive, technical, and cross-functional audiences

Nice To Haves

Low-ego, high-impact mindset — prioritizes outcomes over oversight
AI product acumen — deep curiosity to build towards an AI optimized product model that focuses on people and not just tools
Data-driven and impact-oriented — decisions grounded in measurable metrics
Clarity creator — simplifies complexity and drives alignment across diverse stakeholders
Systems thinker — sees connections across data, platforms, workflows, and organizational design
Comfortable wearing multiple hats — strategic, operational, and technical
Executive presence — inspires confidence while remaining approachable
Bias toward action — move to learn, fail fast, adjust, and communicate
Resilient and adaptable — thrives in evolving, fast-changing environments

Responsibilities

Own and elevate execution rigor across the Insurance and Healthcare product portfolio
Standardize and strengthen product discovery, framing, and requirements practices
Establish best-in-class documentation standards (Voice of Customer diligence, PRDs, architecture documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, and system specifications)
Ensure seamless transition across teams from discovery, to requirements, through engineering delivery
Drive predictable, high-quality execution across multiple product lines and verticals — bring forward measurable metrics to track speed and velocity
Bring requirements diligence focused on data-centric product offerings. APIs, and system-to-system integrations
Ensure alignment between platform strategy, application development, and data architecture
Partner closely with Program Management, Product, Technology, and Analytics teams to drive scalable, secure, and governed solutions
Maintain strong technical fluency across enterprise data teams, focused on new data offerings and new data models
Balance innovation velocity with compliance, privacy, and regulatory standards
Lead and mature UX design and research capabilities across the organization product portfolio
Embed structured discovery and customer validation into verticalized business markets, create strong stakeholder partnership with business market GMs
Leverage Pragmatic and Jobs-to-Be-Done principles as a core capability to influence the organization’s solution design approach
Elevate experience consistency across enterprise and SaaS workflows, specifically focused on Design System implementation
Champion usability, clarity, and workflow efficiency as competitive differentiators
Ensure customer insights meaningfully inform prioritization and roadmap decisions
Strengthen agile discipline, roadmap clarity, and cross-team coordination
Improve dependency management and delivery predictability across teams
Drive transparency around scope, trade-offs, prioritization, sequencing, and execution risk
Establish measurable KPIs for execution health and product impacts
Optimize time-to-market without sacrificing quality or governance
Lead and grow functional leaders across Product Execution, Business Analysis, and Design teams
Build a culture of accountability, ownership, and execution excellence
Raise the bar for product thinking, decision quality, and outcome impact
Design a scalable organization structure that can flex as needed to support growth initiatives (including leveraging FTEs and contractors)
Coach leaders to effectively manage both upward (executive alignment) and downward (team clarity and empowerment)