Senior Director, Product Management

PowerSchool provides cloud-based software for K-12 education and supports the educational ecosystem from central offices to classrooms and homes. The Senior Director of Product Management guides the overall product portfolio roadmap, leads product management teams, and oversees research, business requirements, product strategy, and cross-functional execution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of the roadmap
• Manage a team of product management professionals
• Assess needs and opportunities for products through research and feasibility analysis
• Manage, gather, and analyze competitive intelligence data for product lines
• Participate in product modification, support cost reduction, margin analysis, forecasting, product positioning and pricing strategies
• Ensure roadmap plans are aligned with portfolio vision, business objectives, market needs, and competitive environment
• Senior product expert positioned as a key resource with Clients, prospects and partners
• Work with Sales and Project Management to gather/document business requirements
• Lead the writing and curation of clear, detailed business requirements for product and project initiatives
• Work effectively within and across data operations and engineering teams to execute projects and roadmap items
• Assist in creating go to market strategies
• Stay abreast of changing industry regulations affecting product development

Requirements:

• Minimum of 12+ years of relevant and related work experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience
• Travel occasionally, up to 15-20%, for key moments such as team summits, training, customer meetings, company events, etc., with increased frequency during peak periods based on business demands
• This position is subject to company on call policies which constitutes working hours outside of the normal workday as needed
• Experience managing and leading teams and managers
• Minimum 5-8 years of management of other professionals (performance reviews/evaluations)
• Minimum 5-7 year of product management experience with progressive growth in management and leadership responsibility
• Understanding of K12 District needs for the classroom
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills
• Solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle models
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Exhibit intelligent decisiveness
• Manage multiple projects/products simultaneously
• Excellent customer-facing skills
• Manage and lead others effectively, growing the skill set and capabilities of the team holistically and for each individual contributor
• Able to coach others
• Able to cope with strict time management requirements
• Able to work cohesively with a team and show leadership through influence, not power
• Follow and complete directives in a timely manner
• Excellent ability to listen for both what is and is not being said - seek to understand before being understood
• Able to operate within a structured environment, but willing to foresee and/or solve problems when they arise