Director of Product Management [HT-1037707]

VisionSpark is looking for a Director of Product Management to lead their product function. The ideal candidate will bring clarity and accountability to product development processes, ensuring that customer needs and business priorities are effectively translated into actionable product work.

Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a strong product function with clear standards, ownership, and accountability across Product Owners
• Ensure product work is ready before it reaches Engineering, including discovery, requirements, priorities, acceptance criteria, and readiness
• Own the product roadmap and operating rhythm so priorities reflect business goals, customer needs, team capacity, and long-term product direction
• Create backlog discipline that keeps the team focused on the right work, in the right order, with clear priorities and dependencies
• Strengthen the handoff between Product, Engineering, UX/UI, and business teams so product work moves forward with clarity and alignment
• Bring stakeholder input into the product process early so customer needs, business priorities, and technical realities are understood before decisions are made
• Build practical product rhythms that make progress, capacity, blockers, priorities, and decisions visible to leadership
• Lead and develop Product Owners into strong product thinkers, communicators, and problem solvers
• Use clear measures of product success to connect customer value, adoption, retention, revenue growth, and team efficiency
• Lead clear communication around product updates, release plans, tradeoffs, and decisions across the organization
• Identify process gaps, capacity issues, and execution risks early, then create practical solutions that keep product work moving
• Use tools, data, and emerging technology to improve product workflows, documentation, and team effectiveness

Requirements:

• Departmental leadership experience in a product, software, technology, or cross-functional delivery function, with ownership of priorities, team performance, and measurable results
• Direct people leadership experience, including coaching, accountability, performance standards, and quality of work
• Experience managing software, platform, or technology-enabled product work from idea through release, with responsibility for successful delivery across stakeholders
• Experience building operating discipline through clearer process, documentation, tools, accountability, or operating rhythms
• Strong product and business judgment, with experience prioritizing work based on customer value, operational impact, efficiency, revenue, ROI, or other measurable outcomes
• Experience working with LMS or compliance-driven platforms
• Experience in a regulated or operationally complex environment
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve workflows and documentation