Director of Product

This is not a strategy-only role. You'll roll up your sleeves daily to clarify priorities, translate market insight into actionable requirements, and ensure delivery teams are building what truly moves the business forward. You'll be accountable for understanding the market, setting a bold product vision, and executing relentlessly.

• Define and drive the product vision and strategy, aligning them tightly with company goals and the evolving needs of the environmental monitoring market.
• Build and lead a high-performing product team, including hiring, mentoring, and developing PMs, analysts, and UX professionals
• Prioritize for impact - own the roadmap and make hard trade-offs that maximize business value and customer outcomes.
• Translate complexity into clarity by defining crisp requirements and success metrics that guide design and engineering without ambiguity.
• Partner deeply with development to ensure clear understanding, velocity, and accountability on deliverables.
• Establish a data-driven feedback loop using customer input, analytics, and field observations to continually refine priorities.
• Lead Go-To-Market readiness, ensuring alignment across sales, marketing, and customer success before each release.
• Represent the customer voice internally while maintaining a pragmatic focus on business goals.
• Own product performance metrics - adoption, engagement, retention, and profitability - and use them to drive decisions.
• Stay ahead of the industry by tracking trends, competitors, and regulatory changes to position our products for long-term success.
• Be visibly accountable - communicate decisions, progress, and results clearly to executives, teams, and customers.
• Model urgency and bias for action. When blockers arise, you remove them - not wait for them to resolve.

• Supervises, hires, trains, provides work direction, and problem-solving assistance for employees; also oversees the daily operations of other staff

• 10+ years of experience in software or SaaS product management, with at least 5 years leading teams or departments.
• Proven ability to deliver complex software products from vision to commercial success.
• Experience owning both strategy and execution in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment.
• Deep familiarity with Agile practices, backlog management, and stakeholder alignment.
• Strong analytical and communication skills - able to synthesize inputs from executives, customers, and engineers into clear direction.
• Demonstrated success in market discovery, GTM strategy, and data-driven decision-making.
• Prior experience in environmental, compliance, or industrial SaaS preferred.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Extensive knowledge of product lifecycle
• Experience with project planning; ability to set and meet deadlines
• Excellent organizational skills
• Experience working on large-scale software projects; ability to lead cross-functional team to achieve goals and objectives
• Proficient in MS Office programs
• Strong people skills; ability to communicate with associates and customers

This is a fast-paced, hands-on leadership role. You'll juggle priorities, make daily decisions with imperfect information, and model urgency for your team. The position requires travel to customer sites, tradeshows, and industry events to stay grounded in the realities of our users. Expect direct collaboration with executives and peers across sales, marketing, engineering, and operations. We value leaders who combine strategic clarity with execution discipline - those who inspire followership through action, not just ideas.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Regular use of the telephone and e-mail for communication is essential. Sitting for extended periods and the use of hands to finger is common. Hearing and vision within normal ranges is helpful for normal conversations, to receive ordinary information and to prepare or inspect documents.

Exertion of up to 10 lbs. of force is rare. While performing the duties of this job, good manual dexterity for the use of common office equipment such as computer terminals, calculator, and copiers is needed. The employee is occasionally required to stand. Exposure to extreme environmental conditions or industrial hazards is not applicable.

Our customer base is spread across the US. This position would be expected to travel as needed to develop industry knowledge and insight by working with customers to understand their needs and problems. The position would also be a key player in tradeshows and customer events we host to engage and learn from our customers.