Associate Director, Digital Product Management, Catalysts

Accountabilities:

• • Embedded product leadership: Embed with complex and strategically important products and teams to strengthen product management practices, accelerate adoption of the digital product operating model, and improve product maturity.
  • Product coaching and capability building: Act as a senior hands-on player-coach for Digital Product Managers and cross-functional teams, developing capabilities in problem framing, discovery, product strategy, roadmapping, OKRs, KPIs, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and value measurement.
  • Direct product management: When a dedicated product manager is not available, temporarily assume product management responsibilities, including shaping product direction, defining outcomes, aligning stakeholders, resolving trade-offs, and supporting roadmap and capacity decisions.
  • Outcome-oriented product strategy: Help teams connect business and enterprise strategy to product outcomes, develop product visions and strategies, improve roadmaps, establish measurable success criteria, and make investment recommendations.
  • Discovery and prioritization: Guide teams in using customer insights, product data, experimentation, business context, feasibility, risk, capacity, and dependencies to make evidence-based product decisions.
  • Cross-functional leadership: Partner with business, technology, engineering, data, design, compliance, quality, operations, and adjacent product teams to clarify roles, decision rights, operating rhythms, dependencies, and expectations.
  • Stakeholder influence: Influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority, communicate product direction and trade-offs clearly, and escalate significant blockers or alignment issues when necessary.
  • Catalyst engagement execution: Lead engagement activities from initial product and team assessment through planning, embedded coaching, adoption measurement, transition, and lessons learned.
  • Continuous improvement: Identify capability gaps, adoption barriers, and recurring product-management challenges, then translate practical learnings into reusable examples, templates, playbooks, standards, and operating practices.
  • Performance measurement: Define and track engagement success measures such as product management capability growth, team adoption, product maturity, measurable product outcomes, and sustained adoption after the engagement concludes.

  Requirements:

  • Education and experience: Bachelor's degree plus at least 7 years of relevant experience, Master's degree plus 5 years, Doctorate plus 3 years, Associate's degree plus 12 years, or high school diploma/GED plus 14 years in digital product management, product leadership, digital transformation, technology strategy, or a related field.
  • Product management expertise: 7+ years of progressive experience spanning product strategy, discovery, roadmapping, prioritization, delivery, and outcome measurement is preferred.
  • Complex product leadership: Demonstrated experience owning or leading complex, interdependent, high-priority products or initiatives in environments with significant stakeholder and organizational complexity.
  • Coaching capability: Experience mentoring, coaching, or upskilling product managers, product owners, business partners, or cross-functional teams, with the ability to balance hands-on leadership and capability development.
  • Product management craft: Strong knowledge of customer and user problem definition, product discovery, roadmap development, OKRs, KPIs, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, investment trade-offs, and value realization.
  • Strategic judgment: Ability to frame ambiguous problems, evaluate competing priorities, resolve dependencies, make sound trade-off recommendations, and create practical paths forward.
  • Influence and communication: Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with demonstrated ability to influence senior business, technology, product, engineering, data, compliance, and functional stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Operating-model experience: Experience contributing to product operating models, playbooks, standards, templates, training programs, or organizational adoption initiatives is preferred.
  • Industry background: Experience in healthcare, biotechnology, regulated industries, high technology, digital consulting, or product-led organizations is valuable.
  • Emerging technology: Familiarity with AI-native product development, generative AI workflows, responsible AI principles, and the evolving impact of AI on product management is preferred.
  • Leadership style: Strong collaboration, adaptability, accountability, continuous-improvement mindset, and the ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive base salary: $188,054.85–$254,427.15 annually, with actual compensation determined by factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and other applicable considerations.
  • Annual incentive: Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
  • Retirement benefits: Retirement and savings plan with generous employer contributions.
  • Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees and dependents.
  • Financial protection: Life and disability insurance, plus flexible spending account options.
  • Long-term incentives: Stock-based long-term incentive opportunities, subject to eligibility.
  • Time off: Award-winning paid time-off programs supporting work-life balance.
  • Flexible work: Flexible work models where applicable to the position and work-location requirements.
  • Career development: Opportunities for professional growth, learning, and career development.
  • Inclusive workplace: A collaborative environment that values diverse perspectives and supports reasonable accommodations throughout the employment lifecycle.
  • Remote opportunity: United States remote position.