Director of Product Management

About Spectus

Spectus is a high-quality geospatial data platform-as-a service that provides users with a privacy-centric but holistic, clear view of consumer behavior to make informed decisions. As a synergetic data clean room with industry-leading differential privacy safeguards, Spectus unlocks petabytes of new data supply and makes geospatial analytics streamlined and affordable.

About the Role

As Director, Product Management, you will serve as a player-coach with direct product responsibility for the Spectus Platform as well as management of two PMs and a Sr. Product Designer. A key focus for this role will be to conduct customer discovery in partnership with key stakeholders to understand the customer journey and identify the needs of our partners and customers. You will help synthesize what you learn into hypotheses and assumptions to test in a scrappy way in collaboration with UX, Product, Data and Engineering. This should take into account not only product-market fit, but also go-to-market and operational considerations such as pricing and packaging. In this role, you will have the opportunity to partner with key stakeholders in the US and collaborate with our data and engineering teams based in Milan, Italy. This is a position with a lot of potential for growth if you demonstrate yourself as a leader.

What You’ll Do:

You will report into the Chief Operating Officer and work closely with Engineering leads, Data Science, BI, Design and Product. More specifically you’ll:

• Uncover and anticipate the needs of users and supporting functions within Spectus and the broader business to drive the product vision, strategy and roadmap.
• Establish, manage and maintain a roadmap of priorities for the product team driven by data, validated learning and a keen understanding of cross-team dependencies.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Data Leads to execute on our product development and release management process drawing from Agile principles.
• In collaboration with a cross-functional stakeholder group, define go-to-market strategies to execute smooth product delivery and ensure operational scalability.
• Contribute to our Objectives and Key Results (OKR) process, as well as develop and track product success metrics and milestones.
• Maintain a feedback loop with internal stakeholders, customers and users and ensure their input is considered as you define the roadmap.
• Understand and maintain ownership of product profitability to set and meet revenue expectations.
• Manage, coach and mentor two PMs based in Milan, Italy, as well as a Sr. Product Designer based in the US.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years experience working with complex data and analytics products in an enterprise B2B environment
• Experience with PaaS/ Platform/ Marketplace is strongly recommended
• 1-2+ years experience coaching, mentoring and managing other PMs
• Demonstrated experience leading a product through the full lifecycle from an idea on a whiteboard to a commercially viable product
• Good understanding of modern technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Spark, Airflow or equivalent big data and ETL technologies
• Experience with Agile methodology
• You are a proven relationship builder, who works comfortably in matrixed and global environments
• You excel at leading and motivating teams regardless of whether they report to you or not
• You have a strong sense of ownership and accountability and take pride in your work
• You have the ability to say no - and to explain why
• You’re passionate about getting things done

What we offer:

• Unlimited PTO, generous health insurance benefits & coverage
• Flexible WFH policy
• A growing company where everything you do impacts