E1E1 — Director (Executive)
Product Management Director of Product Management
Oversees multiple product teams or an entire product department.
What this level means
Executive-level director owning a significant function with strategic authority.
- Scope
- A significant function with strategic authority
- Autonomy
- Sets functional strategy
- Complexity
- Strategic and cross-functional
- Impact
- Function-wide enterprise impact
- Decision rights
- Owns strategy and investment for the function
- Leadership
- Executive leadership of a function
- Typical experience
- 12–18 yrs
What you'd do
- Refining product strategy
- Mentoring GPMs and PMs
- Leading customer and market insight gathering
- Setting long-term product vision
- Ensuring alignment with corporate strategy
- Driving innovation across product lines
- Representing product strategy at executive level
- Managing budget and resource allocation
- Refine and set product strategy
- Mentor senior product leaders
- Lead market and customer insight initiatives
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Strategic communication
- Leadership
- Financial management
- Vision setting
- Strategic foresight
- Innovation leadership
- Executive representation
- Resource allocation
- Executive leadership
- Strategic foresight
- Financial management
- Visionary leadership
- Corporate strategy alignment
- Innovation strategies
- Resource management
- Executive communication
- Communication
- Cross-functional leadership
- Financial Acumen
- Visionary leadership
- Strategic foresight
- Innovation Leadership
- Executive Representation
- Resource management
What good looks like
- Proven success at scaling a product
- Advanced degrees or extensive industry knowledge
- Strong executive leadership skills
Common titles
Director, Product ManagementDirector, Product ManagerProduct Management Director of Product Management
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 17-0000 — Architecture & Engineering Occupations(inferred · under review)
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.