Director of Product Management

About This Role

Directing product management for a key segment of the company's retirement investment ecosystem is the core of this role, focusing on data and experience strategy. This position involves leading a product sub-team while also driving strategic initiatives as a senior individual contributor, shaping solutions, and building external relationships. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of their ecosystem segment, build trust with stakeholders, and create products that enhance the broader retirement ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for your segment of the ecosystem, setting direction, making prioritization calls, and connecting product decisions to measurable outcomes
• Run high-leverage initiatives as a senior individual contributor, writing specifications, shaping data and integration solutions, and working directly alongside engineering, data, and design to drive outcomes
• Build and manage an ecosystem-focused team, setting standards, developing talent, and creating the conditions for the team to do its best work
• Cultivate deep, trusted relationships with key external stakeholders, translating those relationships into product partnerships that improve data quality, expand integration depth, and create durable mutual value
• Represent product in executive conversations and external partner discussions, communicating strategy and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of how your stakeholder segment operates within the retirement investment data value chain
• Define success metrics for your initiatives and hold the team accountable to measuring what matters, connecting product decisions to business outcomes and ensuring the team is building the infrastructure to detect progress
• Partner closely with the other persona directors to identify where cross-persona data standards and shared infrastructure create compounding value across the platform
• Complete other related duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 8–12 years of product management experience, with at least 3–5 years managing Product Managers or leading a product function, ideally in fintech, wealthtech, or a data-intensive B2B SaaS environment
• Demonstrated ability to operate as both a people leader and a hands-on individual contributor
• Track record of building external relationships that translate into better product outcomes
• Familiarity with at least one segment of the retirement investment or wealth management ecosystem, with the fluency to earn trust quickly with the stakeholders in it is a plus
• Strong foundation in API architecture, data systems, and integration patterns
• Experience driving a metrics-informed product practice