Director, Product

Overview

Lead product delivery on complex product engagements for automotive OEM and Tier-1 clients, moving across product strategy and the full product development lifecycle as an embedded member of the client's product organization.

What you'll do

• Lead technical and product discovery on active automotive engagements, surfacing user needs, business requirements, platform constraints, and integration realities that shape scope and sequencing
• Conduct competitive and market analysis and user research specific to automotive/mobility experiences, and translate findings into clear, buildable requirements
• Develop and maintain client-facing product roadmaps, translating strategic goals into phased, feasible plans that reflect technical realities, OEM program timelines, and a coherent long-term vision
• Represent the auto product roadmap and team in org-wide meetings, acting as a core member of the client's product organization
• Own backlog prioritization and scope trade-off decisions, working with clients, partners, and engineering leads to make deliberate, impact-driven choices against critical internal and partner-facing timelines
• Define release criteria, quality benchmarks, and post-launch feedback mechanisms; use data from prior phases to inform requirements and improve delivery quality across iterations
• Own end-to-end product delivery, writing product documentation, user stories, and acceptance criteria to a level of detail engineering and design can build from directly
• Lead sprint ceremonies, manage cross-functional coordination, and keep engineering, design, research, and client/partner stakeholders aligned and moving day to day
• Serve as the primary product point of contact for external partners (OEM and Tier-1 counterparts)
• Support business development with product input
• Identify and implement process improvements, including AI-assisted workflows, that improve team throughput, and advise clients on adopting similar practices to build more autonomous delivery teams

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in product management roles, with a track record of owning complex engagements end-to-end
• Deep working knowledge of agile delivery methodologies and product artifacts (epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specs, and process documentation), written to a level of detail engineering and design can build from
• Fluency in CMSes, platform architecture, API documentation, and integration planning sufficient to partner credibly with engineering leads on scoping and trade-off decisions
• Experience with competitive/market analysis and user research, and the ability to translate both into clear requirements
• Strong client and partner communication skills: comfortable managing scope conversations, reporting delivery progress, acting as the main product contact for external partners, and navigating difficult trade-offs with senior stakeholders
• Command-level fluency with AI tools for research, prototyping, documentation, requirements analysis, and workflow, with informed judgment about where they improve throughput and where precision still requires human review
• Experience mentoring junior team members and contributing to technical scoping in new business contexts; collaborative instinct across design, engineering, and research disciplines
• Self-starter who can hit the ground running on day one, operating as a core member of the product organization rather than an outside resource

Nice to have

• Automotive product and interfaces background, including at least one automotive product taken to launch and working knowledge of how OEM and Tier-1 programs run

Details

• Location: New York, New York, United States; Remote