
Director of Product Operations
Teachstone
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $135,000 - $155,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Manage and mentor the Product Operations Manager, ensuring strong execution across product launches, process improvement initiatives, and customer feedback programs.
- Own and evolve Teachstone’s product operating model, including planning cadences, cross-functional rituals, documentation standards, and decision-making frameworks.
- Champion continuous improvement across the product lifecycle by identifying friction points and implementing scalable, repeatable solutions.
- Partner closely with Product Management and Product Leadership to ensure operational clarity, consistency, and accountability across teams.
- Define, communicate, and own the Product Operations roadmap, aligning operational initiatives to Product and company priorities while ensuring clear sequencing, resourcing, and measurable outcomes.
- Launch Voice of Customer (VoC) program, ensuring consistent collection, synthesis, and dissemination of customer feedback across Product and the broader organization.
- Partner with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Research & Evaluation to aggregate qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable themes.
- Establish clear feedback loops to inform roadmap decisions, launch readiness, and post-launch iteration.
- Enable Product teams with tools, dashboards, and summaries that make customer signals visible, trusted, and actionable.
- Design, document, and continuously improve product development processes to increase velocity, predictability, and cross-functional alignment.
- Standardize best practices across discovery, build, delivery, launch, and post-launch learning while allowing flexibility for team needs.
- Facilitate retrospectives and operational reviews to identify improvement opportunities and drive follow-through.
- Support Product Managers with frameworks, templates, and coaching that reinforce outcome-oriented thinking and execution.
- Serve as the primary owner and administrator of Product Operations tools (e.g., Pendo, Vistaly, Jira, Confluence).
- Ensure tools are configured, maintained, and adopted in ways that support product workflows, insights, and reporting.
- Partner with Data Engineering and Operations to ensure data integrity, consistency, and usability across systems.
- Evaluate new tools and automation opportunities to reduce manual work and improve operational scale.
- Own and evolve the product launch management framework, ensuring launches are well-coordinated, predictable, and customer-ready.
- Partner with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Support to align on messaging, enablement, readiness, and success metrics.
- Facilitate launch readiness reviews, risk identification, and go/no-go decision-making.
- Establish post-launch reviews to assess outcomes, gather learnings, and improve future launches.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management, or Product Management within a SaaS organization.
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling product operations processes in a cross-functional environment.
- Proven ability to lead high-visibility, high-impact initiatives with structure, clarity, and follow-through.
- Strong systems thinker with the ability to design operational workflows that scale with organizational growth.
- Experience with product operating models (e.g., squad structures, continuous discovery).
- Experience owning voice of customer programs, product launches, and product tooling ecosystems.
- Comfort administering and optimizing tools such as Pendo, Jira, Confluence or similar platforms.
- Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence without authority.
- People management experience with a track record of developing high-performing team members.
- Growth mindset around leveraging AI, automation, and emerging tools to improve operational efficiency and insight generation.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits: Medical/dental, 401(k), PTO, insurance, development opportunities. Details provided at offer. Eligibility depends on your role and employment status.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Product OperationsProgram ManagementProduct ManagementOperational WorkflowsProduct Operating ModelsVoice of Customer ProgramsProduct Launch ManagementProcess ImprovementData IntegrityAutomation
Soft Skills
LeadershipCommunicationFacilitationSystems ThinkingInfluencingMentoringCollaborationProblem SolvingOutcome-oriented ThinkingGrowth Mindset