What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Director position at TechLine Consulting?
Overview
The Product Director serves as the strategic leader for a mission-critical product ecosystem, shaping the vision, strategy, and roadmap to drive meaningful business outcomes. This is not a backlog or delivery management role. It's a highly strategic position for someone who brings clarity to ambiguity, influences senior stakeholders, and deeply represents the voice of the customer.
The Product Director integrates and motivates cross-functional teams, builds strong relationships across the organization, and leads the end-to-end product lifecycle with a customer-centric mindset.
Responsibilities
- Define and continuously evolve the product vision and strategy, aligning with broader organizational priorities.
- Convert ambiguous problem spaces into structured, outcome-driven product plans that guide teams and stakeholders.
- Influence executives using clear, data-driven narratives that drive alignment on product direction.
- Lead customer discovery, experimentation, and rapid iteration to validate needs and assumptions.
- Own and manage the product roadmap, ensuring strategic prioritization across customer, business, and technical dimensions.
- Foster deep partnerships across engineering, design, operations, data, and business teams to ensure successful execution.
- Establish and track key success metrics, adjusting strategy based on learnings and feedback loops.
- Act as a player-coach, mentoring team members, elevating product thinking, and building a high-performing product culture.
- Champion innovation through customer insights, lean testing, and iterative development practices.
- Support organizational leaders in advancing engineering culture and implementing adaptive ways of working.
- Demonstrate financial acumen and, where required, manage product-related P&L responsibilities.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years in product management, including 3 years with full ownership of a complex enterprise product, platform, or portfolio.
- Proven success driving business outcomes in strategic product roles, not just managing output or deliverables.
- Experience leading product strategy in high-growth, ambiguous, or consultative environments (e.g., tech, consulting, digital transformation).
- Demonstrated ability to define product vision, strategy, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong history of influencing senior leaders and aligning cross-functional stakeholders.
- Skilled in customer discovery, agile product delivery, and experimentation frameworks.
- Familiarity with modern SDLC practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud-native systems.
- Experience managing enterprise platforms or ERPs is highly valuable.
- Industry versatility is a plus, with the ability to ramp quickly in new domains (Tech, SaaS, FinTech, HealthTech, etc.).
- Track record of increasing scope, strategic responsibility, and organizational impact.
Core Skills
- Executive communication and storytelling
- Workshop facilitation in complex, enterprise-level environments
- Strategic thinking and problem framing
- Customer discovery and experimentation leadership
- Data-driven decision-making
- Team development, coaching, and fostering growth mindset
- Navigating ambiguity with strong critical thinking
- High ownership, collaboration, and self-direction
Other Requirements
- Monthly domestic travel with occasional international travel.