Director, Product Development

LanguageLine Solutions

Director of Product Development leading a team at LanguageLine Solutions. Defining product vision and executing strategy in language access industry.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $165,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and execute the product vision for LanguageLine Solutions.
Lead and inspire the Product Development team in envisioning and building world-class products.
Advocate for customers and drive innovation on their behalf.
Understand and translate market requirements with substantiated customer/market feedback.
Anticipate the impact of the changing language access industry and regulatory environment.
Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional product teams to form roadmaps in support of strategic plans and customer needs.
Plan and prioritize product features and requirements from conceptual stages through product life cycles.
Remove organizational and operational bottlenecks that impede product innovation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 10 years’ experience leading Product Management, Product Development, or Product Engineering teams in a software-driven industry.
Proven track record defining product vision and transforming that vision into market reality.
Excellent critical thinking, analytical problem-solving and negotiating skills.
Demonstrated strategic orientation pertaining to Product Placement, Marketing, R&D, and Vendor collaboration.
Superior analytical and quantitative skills; experience using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success.
Skillful at building consensus and making thoughtful, data-driven recommendations for key decisions including prioritization, scope, solution design, issue management, risk identification and mitigation.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Comfortable speaking in front of a room full of industry or company executives, actively engaging with existing and prospective clients in discussions about product features and capabilities and diving deep into the details of a product requirement with a software or quality assurance engineer.
Masterful at cross-functional communication to ensure all stakeholders have everything needed to collaborate effectively.
Proven “radar” for recognizing when a given problem or solution needs additional guidance or knowledge and ability to seek out required information from experts throughout the organization.
Strong experience delivering solutions that delight customers and stakeholders and deliver on the intended value proposition; similarly, experience with helping stakeholders understand when / why a given solution will not deliver the value / results envisioned.
Excellent team building, mentoring, and leadership abilities.
Proven ability to manage multiple activities in parallel and to deliver product features on time.
Ability to see multiple solutions to problems and identify the optimal one for the situation.
Must possess excellent business judgment and a practical, common-sense approach to getting things done.
Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, or a related field from an accredited college/university or equivalent business experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and a 401(k) plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct EngineeringData AnalysisMetrics MeasurementSolution DesignRisk IdentificationProduct Life Cycle ManagementMarket Requirements TranslationInnovation Advocacy

Soft Skills

Critical ThinkingAnalytical Problem-SolvingNegotiatingStrategic OrientationConsensus BuildingCommunicationTeam BuildingMentoringLeadershipCross-Functional Communication