Director of Product Management, Emphasys PHA
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Define and communicate a clear product vision and strategy, translating customer needs and market opportunities into a longer-term roadmap. Establish stronger product management practices, operating rhythms, and agile ways of working to bring greater discipline to prioritization and backlog management. Lead the evolution of the product by guiding the transition from a legacy desktop application toward a modern, web-based platform. Coach and develop a team of three Product Owners, building their capabilities while providing hands-on guidance as a player-coach. Engage directly with customers to understand workflows and challenges, ensuring their insights inform product decisions alongside broader business priorities. Partner with Development, Sales, Marketing, and industry leadership to create alignment around product priorities and contribute insight to positioning and growth discussions. Adopt and mature AI-enabled ways of working, including the emerging AI Delivery Life Cycle methodology, to strengthen product discovery and delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Led a product team
- Experience coaching and developing Product Owners or Product Managers
- Experience providing hands-on guidance when needed
- Translate customer needs, market opportunities, and business objectives into a clear product strategy and actionable roadmap
- Prioritize competing needs
- Make thoughtful trade-offs
- Bring discipline and predictability to how product decisions are made and executed
- Worked within strong product management environments
- Understand agile principles
- Understand backlog management
- Understand roadmapping
- Understand prioritization
- Understand product lifecycle practices
- Assess what is working
- Identify where greater structure is needed
- Introduce processes that help a team become more strategic and effective
- Comfortable engaging directly with customers to understand their workflows, challenges, and priorities
- Use customer insights to inform product decisions
- Present product direction with confidence
- Navigate differing perspectives
- Build credibility with customers and industry stakeholders
- Build trusted relationships across Development, Sales, Marketing, and leadership teams
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Challenge assumptions
- Influence decisions
- Push back constructively when needed
- Comfortable joining an established business and product at an important point in its evolution
- Bring curiosity and sound judgment to learning a specialized market
- Open to exploring how emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development, can support better products and more effective ways of working
- Curious about how AI is changing the product discipline
- Motivated to explore how it can improve the way products are discovered, developed, and delivered
- Experience incorporating AI-enabled tools or methodologies into product practices
- Willingness to learn, experiment, and help a team adopt new ways of working
- Remote role open to candidates based in the United States
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with AI-enabled tools or methodologies into product practices
- Experience helping a team adopt new ways of working as technologies and approaches continue to evolve
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