Auror

Director of Product Management

Auror

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Auckland • New Zealand

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Salary

💰 NZ$175,000 - NZ$195,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Product leadership: Co-managing our New Zealand based product management team (15 people), providing strategic direction and leadership, helping them grow and do the best work of their career. You’ll be working alongside our other two Directors of Product Management to set a high standard for product excellence and foster a collaborative and innovative product culture.
  • Commercial and Strategic Leadership: Lead strategic decisions across product lines. Understand the commercial impact of your product lines on customers and the business. Observe and drive the response to changes in the competitive landscape.
  • Product strategy: Collaborate with the Chief Product Officer, Directors of Product Management and other key stakeholders to align product strategy across our product suite with overall company goals and objectives.
  • Product delivery: Play a key role in ensuring we ship high quality product, at a high cadence, that consistently delivers on customer outcomes, and taking ownership of ensuring we have effective go-to-market strategies.
  • Product operations: Working with the product managers, wider product org, and customer teams to evolve how we support other teams to do their best work.
  • Innovation: Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, and drive innovation across our product teams to ensure our products remain cutting-edge and competitive.
  • Leverage Data and AI Thoughtfully: Identify opportunities to integrate AI into the platform in a sensible, safe, and impactful way. Collaborate cross-functionally to drive ethical AI practices.
  • Measure and Communicate Success: Be fully across key metrics for your product lines and drive the response to changes in the metrics. Ensure wide visibility of the outcomes and learnings to stakeholders and the wider business.
  • Mentorship and coaching: Coach and mentor your team of product managers to ensure they are effective.

Requirements

  • Multiple years experience managing and leading teams of at least 3 product managers.
  • A proven track record delivering world class B2B SaaS products to market.
  • Strong strategic thinker with a history of owning and driving product strategy.
  • Strong executor with a proven track record of shipping products fast to a high quality.
  • Demonstrate strong commercial acumen with the ability to drive the financial side of product at the strategic cross-product line level.
  • Experience building teams that love to work together and produce world class results.
  • Strong people manager who cares deeply about the people around them, growing their careers and enabling them to do their best work.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Thoughtful, high empathy and social intelligence, with the ability to deliver all types of information and context to different people in ways that resonate.
  • A desire to be a thought leader in this space and contributing, networking with the product management community. Through this, you’ll help Auror become known as one of the very best product teams around.
  • Proactive, organised, focused, and with a strong bias for action and forward momentum.
  • Nice to have
  • Experience working on products with a global scale (and teams in multiple regions and timezones)
  • Experience innovating with new technologies (including AI & machine learning)
Benefits
  • Competitive salary range: Depending on level of experience, between $175,000 - $195,000 (PL5)
  • Employee share scheme: You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
  • Flexibility: We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
  • Shorter work weeks (at full pay): Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
  • Focus on mental and physical health: We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including Wellness Days, and up to $750 NZD for expert sessions every year.
  • Health insurance: We prioritise looking after your health by covering 100% of your individual health insurance plan through nib health insurance.
  • Family-friendly: We offer comprehensive paid parental leave - 12 weeks for birth parents and 6 weeks for non-birth parents following birth, adoption, or surrogacy, available to all Aurors from day one.
  • Personal growth: We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
  • Team love: We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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