Director of Product Management
$235,000–$275,000 year
On-siteOakland, California, United States
EXPIREDOakland, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$235,000–$275,000 yearSenior LevelManufacturing SoftwareMedium
Full TimeSenior LevelMediumManufacturing Software
Job Summary
Own the product strategy and integrated roadmap across catalog platform, e-commerce, supply chain, and business systems domains. Translate company strategy into sequenced roadmaps with clear goals, milestones, and business rationale while identifying cross-domain dependencies and tradeoffs. Lead a substantial product management organization comprising individual contributors and people managers, coaching on discovery, prioritization, and launch readiness. Build strong relationships with Engineering, Design, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Finance leadership to ensure collaborative product direction. Establish and track meaningful metrics to evaluate impact and drive continuous improvement. Represent the domain in senior leadership forums and travel approximately 15% annually for team collaboration and customer research.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of product management experience
- at least 4 years leading and managing a multi-layered PM organization that includes both individual contributors and people managers
- Demonstrated success leading product strategy and execution for a large-catalog B2B or B2C e-commerce platform
- experience with catalog scale (hundreds of thousands to millions of SKUs)
- search and navigation
- pricing display and transactional workflows
- Track record of building and maintaining integrated roadmaps across multiple teams or product areas
- managing cross-domain dependencies and stakeholder alignment
- Proven ability to develop PM talent — hiring, coaching, and growing product managers into more senior and independent contributors
- Experience building and gaining senior leadership alignment on product strategy, business cases, and investment prioritization
- Strong background in cross-functional collaboration, with demonstrated experience partnering with Engineering, Design, Operations, and commercial functions to deliver meaningful outcomes
- Experience using customer insights, operational data, and business metrics to drive strategic product decisions and roadmap evolution
- Experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to apply them to drive execution discipline at the team level
- Strategic thinking: ability to synthesize business goals, customer insights, operational realities, and technology constraints into a clear, prioritized product direction
- People leadership: proven ability to develop product managers — coaching for growth, delivering honest feedback, and building a high-performing, high-trust team
- Strong analytical skills: ability to evaluate opportunity size, build business cases, and use data to drive high-quality decisions across a complex product portfolio
- Excellent communication: able to articulate strategy and tradeoffs clearly to both executive audiences and cross-functional teams, in writing and in conversation
- Influence without authority: builds trust and earns credibility across Engineering, Operations, and commercial functions through strong judgment, follow-through, and genuine partnership
- Results orientation: focused on outcomes, not just output — able to hold the team accountable to impact while navigating ambiguity and change
- Comfortable navigating systems with deep interdependencies and integrations, including large-scale catalog, transactional, and operational platforms
- Active and advancing AI practice: uses AI tools as a genuine accelerant across discovery, synthesis, prototyping, and decision-making — and is actively building toward team-level AI workflows that raise the collective capability of the PM organization, not just personal efficiency
- Working understanding of how AI is reshaping the product management role — including which PM activities are being automated, which are becoming more valuable, and what that means for how to recruit, develop, and evaluate a product team in this environment
- Travel approximately 15% annually for team collaboration, customer research, partner visits, and industry engagement
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in or exposure to new hardware product development, factory automation, or mechanical/industrial engineering — understanding of the engineering workflows that drive demand for industrial components
- Background in industrial parts supply, distribution, or manufacturing supply chain, including familiarity with how procurement teams and engineers source mechanical components
- Experience managing product platforms with complex configurability requirements — such as parametric search, attribute-based filtering, or custom order logic at scale
- Familiarity with business systems and operational tooling (e.g., ERP integrations, OMS, WMS) and how they intersect with customer-facing product experiences
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