
Director of Product Management
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and own the long-term product strategy and roadmap for the Connect platform, aligned with business objectives and market needs.
- Balance customer requirements, carrier constraints, technical feasibility, and revenue impact in prioritization decisions.
- Establish clear success metrics for platform performance, reliability, and adoption.
- Partner with Compliance and Messaging Ops to translate carrier policies, technical specifications, and certification requirements into actionable product requirements.
- Ensure the platform supports efficient onboarding, audit readiness, and ongoing compliance enforcement.
- Monitor changes in carrier policies and market conditions, proactively incorporating them into product planning.
- Lead product development for platform services including APIs, provisioning, policy management, analytics, and reporting.
- Ensure a consistent, high-quality experience for internal teams, external developers, and integration partners.
- Advocate for strong developer experience while maintaining platform security, integrity, and carrier trust.
- Build, lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers across Connect and infrastructure-adjacent domains.
- Partner with Engineering to deliver reliable, scalable releases on predictable timelines.
- Apply data-driven decision-making throughout discovery, delivery, and post-launch evaluation.
- Serve as the primary product representative in cross-functional planning and executive discussions.
- Communicate product priorities, tradeoffs, and timelines clearly to stakeholders at all levels.
- Build alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Messaging Ops, and external partners.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of experience in Product Management, including leadership roles overseeing complex platform or infrastructure products.
- Demonstrated experience in regulated or partner-driven ecosystems such as aggregators, CPaaS, telecommunications, payments, or similar domains.
- Proven ability to deliver products that operate at scale and under external operational constraints.
- Strong understanding of API-first platforms, distributed systems, and platform economics.
- Experience managing products where reliability, compliance, and operational discipline are critical.
- Ability to synthesize technical, regulatory, and commercial considerations into clear product direction.
- Effective people leader with experience building and mentoring high-performing product teams.
- Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate strategy, risks, and tradeoffs.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and drive alignment in complex organizations.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Options
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Short- and long-term disability
- Life insurance
- 11 paid holidays
- Flexible vacation
- Summer Fridays
- Winter Holiday break
- Commuter benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid parental leave program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product strategyroadmap developmentAPI managementdata-driven decision-makingplatform performance metricscompliance enforcementanalyticsreportingtechnical specificationsproduct development
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationteam buildingmentoringinfluencingstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingadaptability