Director of Product

Director of Product leading AI-first transformation at JSSI. Responsible for business unit relationships, AI integration, and product management.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the business relationship with assigned business units as the single point of contact for all product needs, escalations, and roadmap conversations
Build deep relationships with business unit leaders and stakeholders; understand their goals, constraints, and workflows to anticipate needs before they are articulated
Represent business units’ priorities clearly within the technology organization
Translate business needs into structured, prioritized intake for Solution Architects and engineering teams
Maintain living spec libraries for your BUs: clear, up-to-date requirements that drive AI agents and replace traditional PRDs
Use AI tools as a standard part of your daily workflow — synthesizing user interviews and support tickets, generating first-draft requirements, analyzing adoption data, and accelerating every part of the discovery-to-delivery cycle
Manage 1–3 Product Managers; provide direction, coaching, and clear expectations
Define what “success” looks like for product investments and track it

What you’ll need

7+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead PM role
Demonstrated experience using AI tools in your product work — not just awareness, but active, daily use; we want to see how AI has changed how you do your job
Proven ability to build deep, trusted relationships with business stakeholders and become their go-to technology partner
Track record of translating ambiguous, poorly-defined business needs into clear, prioritized product plans
Strong written communication skills; able to write requirements and product documentation that engineers and AI agents can actually work from
Experience managing at least one direct report
Chicago-based; able to be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week

Comp & perks

JSSI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law.
JSSI does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementAI toolsrequirements documentationproduct planningdata analysis

Soft Skills

relationship buildingstakeholder managementcommunicationcoachingleadership