Director, Product

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

GolfNow is seeking a Director, Product Management to lead product initiatives and develop Product Management talent across our B2B golf technology portfolio.

You’ll combine product expertise, strategic thinking, and people leadership to improve the technology that helps golf course operators manage their businesses and drive growth. Working closely with Engineering, Design, and business leadership, you’ll translate business objectives into coordinated product priorities and deliver measurable improvements in customer experience, adoption, and commercial performance.

You’ll bring an AI-native approach to Product Management, using AI and modern tools to improve effectiveness while developing these capabilities across your team.

Why This Role Matters:

You’ll play a key role in advancing GolfNow’s B2B products while building a strong Product Management team. Your success will be measured by the customer and business outcomes achieved and your ability to develop Product Managers who demonstrate sound judgment, ownership, and accountability.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead Product Ownership: Build deep expertise across GolfNow’s B2B portfolio and develop Product Managers who take accountability for customer experience, product performance, and business outcomes.
• Translate Strategy Into Product Direction: Partner with senior leadership to translate business objectives into coordinated product priorities and roadmaps. Evaluate opportunities and tradeoffs across products while contributing to broader portfolio strategy.
• Drive Customer Experience and Innovation: Identify opportunities to improve customer workflows, expand product capabilities, and introduce innovative solutions that create measurable customer and business value.
• Build and Develop a High-Performing Product Team: Lead, coach, and develop Product Managers. Establish clear expectations, strengthen product judgment, and create an environment that encourages accountability and professional growth.
• Strengthen Cross-Functional Leadership: Build effective partnerships across Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, Sales, and business leadership. Align teams around priorities, resolve dependencies, and communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly.
• Accelerate Execution and Business Results: Establish meaningful success measures, guide complex product initiatives, and use customer insights and performance data to

Qualifications

What You Bring:

• Significant Product Management experience, preferably 10 years, with demonstrated success leading complex products, portfolios, or cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience managing, coaching, and developing Product Managers, including strengthening team capabilities and accountability.
• Experience with B2B software or technology products and demonstrated success improving customer experience, adoption, retention, or commercial performance.
• Strong strategic thinking and product judgment, with the ability to translate business objectives into coordinated priorities, navigate ambiguity, and make informed tradeoffs.
• Strong analytical capabilities and experience using customer research, product metrics, and market insights to guide decisions.
• Technical fluency across APIs, integrations, architecture, scalability, and engineering tradeoffs, combined with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and technology leaders.
• An AI-native approach to Product Management, with the ability to leverage AI and automation effectively while developing these capabilities across a team.

How We Do It:

At Versant, how we work is as important as what we deliver. Successful candidates demonstrate:

• Trust: Build credibility through integrity, sound judgment, accountability, and consistent follow-through while creating an environment where team members can take ownership.
• Teamwork: Foster collaboration across Product, Engineering, Design, and business functions while supporting the development and success of others.
• Transparency: Communicate priorities, decisions, risks, and results openly, and create clarity for team members and stakeholders.
• Agility: Help teams adapt to changing business priorities, customer needs, and emerging information without losing focus on outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Encourage innovation, thoughtful experimentation, proactive problem-solving, and the pursuit of new opportunities that create customer and business value.

We value demonstrated product leadership, people development, sound judgment, and measurable business impact alongside relevant professional experience.

Bonus Points:

• Experience leading Product Management teams responsible for multiple B2B SaaS products or integrated technology platforms.
• Experience developing products for golf course operators, hospitality businesses, or operationally complex B2B environments.
• Knowledge of the golf industry, golf course operations, or related technology ecosystems.

Why You’ll Love It Here:

At GolfNow, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the direction of our B2B technology portfolio while developing Product Management talent. You’ll work closely with business and technology leaders, help solve meaningful customer challenges, and build a team that delivers lasting customer and business value.

Work Environment

This position is remote, with the expectation of occasional in-person collaboration for team meetings, strategic planning sessions, and other business needs.

While there is no formal on-call rotation, this role requires flexibility to participate in the response to critical production issues outside regular business hours when necessary.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.