Director of Product Management

Vibes

Director of Product Management leading AI-native product experiences for a messaging platform company, Vibes. Responsible for product strategy, customer relationships, and AI integration across workflows.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $175,000 - $195,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Product Management with a focus on AI-native platforms, driving product strategy and roadmap while balancing customer commitments and innovation. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with stakeholders to enhance product experiences in B2B SaaS environments.

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Product Management ExperienceAI-Native Workflow ToolsB2B SaaS Product DevelopmentData Science CollaborationCustomer Engagement Platforms

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Hard Skills

Product StrategyRoadmap DevelopmentSuccess Metrics TrackingCampaign ExecutionAI Feature PerformancePredictive SegmentationContent PersonalizationSend-Time OptimizationChannel OrchestrationExperimentation Culture

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationRelationship BuildingExecution DisciplineCross-Functional LeadershipCustomer-Centric Mindset

Tools & Technologies

Marketing TechnologyCRM PlatformsCustomer Engagement ToolsMobile MessagingEmail MarketingPush Notifications

Industry Keywords

Enterprise SoftwareCustomer SuccessCustomer CareProfessional UsersProsumer Tools

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the product strategy and roadmap across the Platform, setting direction for both the AI-native product layer and the underlying platform capabilities that power it.
Define and champion the vision internally and externally, translating it into a phased sequence of bets that compound over time and articulate a clear line from today's product to tomorrow's.
Establish and track success metrics across adoption, marketer productivity, AI feature performance, and downstream campaign outcomes.
Align roadmap priorities with business strategy, ensuring the team balances near-term customer commitments with longer-horizon innovation investments.
Serve as the senior product voice for mobile marketing professionals using the platform today, maintaining deep fluency in their workflows, measurement frameworks, and evolving expectations.
Build high-trust relationships directly with Vibes customers to accelerate our ability to develop product experiences that accelerate their professional success.
Partner with Customer Success, Customer Care, and Sales leadership to identify patterns across the install base and ensure the team is investing in enhancements that move the product forward rather than simply holding ground.
Create the organizational conditions for the team to turn operational feedback into meaningful product investments across campaign creation, scheduling, personalization, and execution at scale.
Lead the AI strategy, defining what it means for the platform to be AI-native and setting the agenda for how intelligence gets embedded across the marketer workflow.
Partner with Data Science and Engineering leadership to identify, scope, and deliver AI- and automation-led capabilities that advance the vision: send-time optimization, channel orchestration, content personalization, predictive segmentation, and beyond.
Build a culture of experimentation, establishing how the team validates where automation creates real lift and where human control should remain, and scaling what works.
Lead and influence a cross-functional team across Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales, creating clarity on priorities, raising the bar on craft, and developing the next generation of product development at Vibes. This role does not have any direct reports today, but we expect it will as we expand our product footprint over the next 12-24 months.
Model and reinforce strong execution discipline across the team: clear requirements, predictable delivery, data-informed decisions, and crisp post-launch evaluation.
Communicate strategy, progress, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to senior leadership, cross-functional partners, and key customers.
Partner at the leadership level with Engineering, Design, and Data Science to bring the product strategy to life and maintain strong team-level working relationships.
Coordinate across adjacent product teams within the Vibes ecosystem to ensure cohesive experiences across channels, audience management, and analytics.
Partner with Marketing, Customer Success, and Customer Care to ensure launches land well, enablement is strong, and customers adopt new capabilities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8–12 years of Product Management experience, including direct ownership of a meaningful product area shipped to external customers and at least 4–5 years managing teams.
Experience leading product in an established, customer-facing platform with an active enterprise install base, and a track record of driving meaningful evolution without disrupting existing customers.
Demonstrated ability to hold both near-term customer commitments and longer-horizon innovation investments as complementary parts of a single product strategy.
History of shipping products that solve real problems for professional users in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, or prosumer tools.
Familiarity with marketing technology, CRM, customer engagement, or messaging platforms (mobile messaging, email, push, or similar adjacent categories).
Deep comfort working on products informed by data science or machine learning, including an understanding of what these systems can and cannot do, how to scope them, and how to communicate their value and limitations to customers.
Strong product instincts for AI-native workflow tools, including how to design for augmentation vs. automation and when to keep humans in the loop.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental and vision coverage
short- and long-term disability
life insurance
11 paid holidays
flexible vacation
summer Fridays
Winter Holiday break
commuter benefits
a 401(k) plan and match
a paid parental leave program