Director of Product Management, Learner Products

Pluralsight is a company dedicated to accelerating technology skills and capabilities. They are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead product vision, strategy, and roadmap for their learning offerings while ensuring alignment between cross-functional teams and driving product success.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage and develop a team of Product Managers across the Learner group — setting clear expectations, coaching through ambiguity, and building the product management capability needed to execute at the pace and quality the business requires
• Define the product strategy and customer experience for your solution area, grounded in a deep understanding of customer needs, jobs‑to‑be‑done, and business outcomes
• Deliver on the strategy and roadmap by leading and enabling the Product Management team, ensuring clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and high‑quality execution
• Own results for your product, including revenue growth, retention, bookings growth, and portfolio‑level KPIs, and mobilize the team to impact these metrics
• Own the multi-year roadmap across Courses, Assessments, Labs, Curation/Learning Experiences, Mobile, Content Tools, and potentially others — ensuring each product area advances a coherent, best-in-class learner experience while collectively driving measurable improvements in activation, engagement, and retention
• Improve product delivery by developing operations, processes, frameworks, and resources that can be scaled across organizational boundaries
• Own the full product lifecycle for your capabilities—from discovery and business case, through development, launch, and in‑market optimization—ensuring ongoing alignment to company strategy and financial goals
• Perform market research and identify key market trends and customer segments that inform product innovation, positioning, and portfolio bets
• Develop and maintain competitive analysis for your space, clearly articulating differentiation and informing roadmap and go‑to‑market strategy
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with leaders in Product, Design, Content, Engineering, Sales, Services, Presales, SaaS Operations, InfoSec, Support, Product Marketing, and Marketing, actively participating in go‑to‑market planning, launches, and enablement
• Interact directly with customers and prospects to understand their problems and goals, validate concepts, and incorporate internal feedback into an aligned multi-year product strategy and roadmap
• Lead engagements with customer advisory boards, strategic user groups, and other strategic customers to define the short‑ and long‑term solution vision and ensure strong product‑market fit
• Understand and manage product‑level economics (e.g., P&L inputs, pricing and packaging considerations, and investment trade‑offs) in partnership with Finance and business leaders. Can build and teach customer-facing ROI frameworks and quantify product value
• Communicate, present, and sell data‑driven product roadmaps and business cases to senior executives, clearly linking investment to expected business impact
• Foster a healthy, inclusive team environment and support the development and growth of individual contributors, modeling servant leadership and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Experience as a people leader at a senior level, managing and developing Product Managers in a SaaS environment
• Direct experience in product management or closely related roles, shipping SaaS products to market at scale
• Experience owning or strongly influencing product‑line business outcomes, including revenue growth, customer retention, bookings, and margin/EBITDA improvements
• Experience with market research, competitive analysis, and partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Product Marketing to plan and execute go‑to‑market strategies
• Experience leading cross‑functional initiatives with Product, Design, Content, Engineering, and customer‑facing teams to deliver impactful customer experiences
• Experience applying AI tools and process optimization to key product management workflows
• Strong leadership, decision‑making, and collaboration skills, with a servant leadership mindset and a track record of building healthy, inclusive teams
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, including experience presenting product strategy, roadmaps, and business cases in company‑wide and executive forums
• Ability to define and execute product and portfolio strategy using inputs such as customer insights, market research, competitive analysis, voice of customer, business reviews, and company goals
• Demonstrated ability to use data and key performance indicators to make investment trade‑offs and measure impact across revenue, retention, engagement, and other product‑line KPIs
• Minimum of 12 years of related or equivalent experience in product management or adjacent disciplines; or 8+ years with an advanced degree