Senior Director of Product Management – Elections
Civix
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Serve as the single accountable owner for the Elections product portfolio, including vision, roadmap, and delivery outcomes.
- Define and maintain a multi-year product strategy aligned to statutory requirements, customer needs, and Civix’s business objectives.
- Own product prioritization decisions, tradeoffs, and sequencing across customer commitments, platform evolution, and innovation.
- Own the economic health of the Elections product line, including pricing strategy, margin awareness, and cost-to-deliver considerations.
- Partner with Sales and Finance to support deal structuring, pricing models, renewals, and expansion opportunities.
- Understand and actively manage the relationship between roadmap decisions and financial outcomes.
- Lead product GTM strategy in partnership with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.
- Ensure product positioning, messaging, and differentiation are clear, credible, and grounded in election realities.
- Support major customer engagements, RFP responses, and executive-level product discussions with election officials.
- Bring hands-on elections expertise across voter registration, election administration, reporting, compliance, and statutory delivery.
- Ensure products meet evolving state and local election requirements with accuracy, predictability, and auditability.
- Act as a trusted domain leader internally and externally, representing Civix credibly with election officials and regulators.
- Partner closely with Engineering and CloudOps to ensure roadmap feasibility, delivery discipline, and quality outcomes.
- Establish strong PDLC practices that balance speed, compliance, and operational stability.
- Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success — eliminating handoff gaps and ambiguity.
- Lead and mature a team of Product Managers and Product Owners with clear accountability and high standards.
- Establish measurable product outcomes tied to customer success, delivery predictability, and business performance.
- Raise the overall product maturity of the Elections organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product leadership experience in GovTech or highly regulated SaaS environments.
- Direct, hands-on elections experience is required (state, county, vendor, or federal level).
- Demonstrated ownership of a complex product portfolio with real accountability for outcomes.
- Proven experience partnering across Sales, Engineering, and executive leadership.
- Strong background in product strategy, roadmap ownership, and GTM execution.
- Experience in influencing or owning pricing strategy, margin considerations, and product economics.
- Comfort operating in customer-facing, executive, and regulatory environments.
- Executive presence with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including with election officials and public-sector stakeholders.
- Decisive, accountable leadership style — comfortable making and owning hard tradeoffs.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product strategyroadmap ownershipGTM executionpricing strategymargin considerationsproduct economicsproduct delivery lifecycle (PDLC)customer success metricselections expertisecompliance management
Soft skills
leadershipcommunication skillsexecutive presencedecisive decision-makingaccountabilityinfluencing skillscollaborationrelationship managementstrategic thinkingproblem-solving