Director, Product

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director, Product based in United States.

As a Director, Product, you’ll lead complex product engagements for automotive OEM and Tier-1 clients, bringing strategic product management and hands-on delivery expertise to highly regulated environments.

• Lead technical and product discovery across automotive engagements, identifying user needs, business requirements, platform constraints, integration considerations, and sequencing priorities.
• Conduct competitive and market analysis and user research focused on automotive and mobility experiences, translating findings into clear, actionable, and buildable requirements.
• Develop and maintain client-facing product roadmaps that translate strategic objectives into phased, technically feasible plans aligned with OEM program timelines and long-term product vision.
• Represent automotive product roadmaps and teams in organization-wide meetings while operating as an embedded member of the client’s product organization.
• Own backlog prioritization and scope trade-offs, collaborating with clients, partners, and engineering leads to make impact-driven decisions against critical timelines.
• Define release criteria, quality benchmarks, and post-launch feedback mechanisms, using data and lessons from previous phases to improve future delivery.
• Own end-to-end product delivery, producing product documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, and other artifacts at a level engineering and design teams can execute against directly.
• Lead sprint ceremonies and coordinate day-to-day collaboration across engineering, design, research, clients, and external partners.
• Serve as the primary product contact for OEM and Tier-1 external partners, managing communication, expectations, progress, and complex trade-offs.
• Support business development efforts by providing product expertise and contributing to technical and strategic scoping.
• Identify and implement process improvements, including AI-assisted workflows, to increase team throughput and delivery quality.
• Advise clients on adopting AI-enabled practices that strengthen autonomy, efficiency, and delivery capabilities.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute product expertise to new business and technical scoping opportunities.

• 8+ years of experience in product management, with a demonstrated track record of owning complex engagements end-to-end.
• Strong automotive product and interface experience is strongly preferred, including at least one automotive product taken through launch and a working understanding of OEM and Tier-1 program environments.
• Deep knowledge of agile product delivery and hands-on experience creating epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, and process documentation detailed enough for engineering and design teams to build from.
• Working knowledge of CMS platforms, platform architecture, API documentation, and integration planning, with the ability to partner credibly with engineering leads on scope and technical trade-offs.
• Experience conducting competitive and market analysis and user research and translating findings into clear product requirements.
• Excellent client and partner communication skills, including experience managing scope discussions, reporting delivery progress, and navigating difficult decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Command-level fluency with AI tools for research, prototyping, documentation, requirements analysis, and workflow management, combined with strong judgment around appropriate human review.
• Experience mentoring junior professionals and contributing to technical scoping in new business contexts.
• Collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively across product, design, engineering, and research disciplines.
• Strong ownership, adaptability, and self-starting mindset, with the ability to quickly become an effective member of a client’s product organization.

• Compensation range of $170,000–$200,000, depending on experience, level, skills, budget, and location.
• Opportunity to lead complex product engagements for major automotive OEM and Tier-1 organizations.
• End-to-end ownership across product discovery, strategy, delivery, launch, and iteration.
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of automotive, technology, AI, and digital product development.
• Embedded collaboration with senior client stakeholders and cross-functional product teams.
• Opportunity to introduce AI-enabled workflows and help organizations develop more autonomous delivery capabilities.
• Global, multidisciplinary working environment spanning technology, engineering, design, and creative expertise.
• Career growth opportunities through exposure to complex, high-impact products and diverse client challenges.