ASTM International is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services. Approximately 12,575 ASTM voluntary consensus standards operate globally. Defined and set by ASTM, these standards improve the lives of millions every day. Combined with our innovative business services, they enhance performance and help people around the world have confidence in the things they buy and use. The organization's headquarters is in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, about 5 mi (8.0 km) northwest of Philadelphia. Founded in 1898 as the American Section of the International Association for Testing Materials, ASTM International predates other standards organizations such as the BSI (1901), IEC (1906), DIN (1917), ANSI (1918), AFNOR (1926), and ISO (1947).
ASTM provides an excellent compensation and benefits package including:
• Undergraduate and Graduate Tuition Reimbursement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• Paid holidays, vacation and sick leave
• 403(b) plan with company match
• 100% company-funded defined benefits pension plan
As Director of Product Management, you will set the strategic direction for ASTM’s product portfolio and lead a team that develops, enhances, launches, and manages products throughout their lifecycle. You will make informed, high-impact decisions that balance customer needs, market opportunity, business value, technology feasibility, and ASTM’s strategic priorities.
You will help transform ASTM’s decades of industry expertise and trusted technical information assets into innovative, software-powered businesses. Backed by ASTM’s scale, resources, reputation, and global market presence, the team will operate with an entrepreneurial mindset while maintaining the quality, integrity, customer trust, and disciplined portfolio management expected of ASTM. The Director will align product strategy, team capacity, technology investment, and go-to-market priorities with business and customer outcomes.
The Director will develop and mentor Product Management staff and collaborate across ASTM divisions and functions to align product strategy, customer needs, technology investment, commercialization, and delivery priorities. You will leverage ASTM’s collective expertise to improve the experience and productivity of members, customers, and users.
You will direct the Product Management staff to develop and manage differentiated, high-value products and services that address the needs of ASTM members, customers, and users. Ensures the product portfolio improves customer productivity, strengthens ASTM’s market position, supports sustainable revenue growth, and advances ASTM’s mission and strategic priorities.
The Director will lead internal teams to identify, validate, and develop data-driven and AI-enabled product opportunities that create meaningful value for ASTM members and customers across industries. This may include AI-powered applications that help users discover, interpret, connect, and apply trusted technical information more effectively. The Director will also create a strategy for AI tools usage for Product Management staff with the goal of improving workflows.
This interdisciplinary leadership role requires business acumen, a strong understanding of ASTM members, customers, and users, and knowledge of how technical information and standards are accessed, interpreted, applied, and managed across industrial, government, academic, laboratory, and supply-chain environments. The Director should understand the domestic and global standards-development ecosystem and technical-information marketplace to identify customer needs, assess market opportunities, and guide differentiated product strategies.
The Director will lead customer and market discovery using voice-of-customer research, interviews, product data, market analysis, and design-thinking methods. Translate insights into clear product strategy, business cases, requirements, roadmaps, and measurable success criteria for products serving enterprises, manufacturers, OEMs, laboratories, government agencies, academic institutions, and other technical users. Oversee product discovery, prototyping, financial modeling, development prioritization, pilot programs, go-to-market readiness, launch, measurement, enhancement, and lifecycle management decisions.
You will partner with Digital Services and other delivery teams to guide product discovery, requirements, prioritization, development, release planning, measurement, and continuous improvement using agile product management and delivery practices, including SAFe as appropriate.
The Director will manage the Product Management department operating budget, including travel, consultant, prototyping, and research costs. Develop business cases, recommend funding and sequencing, and monitor forecasts and spending to ensure investments align with strategic priorities and expected business value. Monitor capital expense budget for project work across the department.
The role establishes product-management strategy, standards, operating practices, and portfolio governance across ASTM’s product ecosystem, while directly leading the Product Management team and its assigned portfolio.
How You’ll Make an Impact or Key Responsibilities
- Shape strategy, development, and commercialization for product line, turning existing firm assets and emerging client solutions into an integrated software-powered business portfolio.
- Assess market opportunities across customer segments, client offerings, and use cases; Collaboratively recommend and jointly drive business cases, pricing, packaging, and investment recommendations with the offering leaders who own the business.
- Set integrated, multi-year product roadmaps in collaboration with the Product Managers, resolving competing priorities, dependencies, and investment trade-offs across products and teams.
- Assist in defining the metrics for product lines and ensure the instrumentation exists to measure them: adoption, retention, revenue, and other business outcomes, and use that evidence to guide commercialization and roadmap decisions.
- Manage cross-functional team relationships to drive a cohesive approach to product development, delivery, and commercialization; help establish the product management craft at ASTM: the standards, artifacts, and operating rhythm a product organization runs on and build AI-native product line management capability across teams.
- Establish appropriate governance for data-driven and AI-enabled products, including content authority, accuracy, provenance, licensing and rights considerations, privacy, security, transparency, evaluation, human oversight, and alignment with ASTM’s reputation for quality and integrity. Be familiar with agentic AI workflows, RAG, and data fusion for insight delivery.
- Utilize AI fluency and agile methodology to enhance product development processes and be familiar with the concepts of agentic AI workflows, RAG, or data fusion for insight delivery.
- Translate ambiguous business goals into clearly defined agent roles, workflows, data requirements, and interface specs.
- Partner with key business stakeholders to ensure we are solving the right customer problem, prioritizing the highest-value capabilities, and designing data- or AI-driven insights that are accurate, explainable, actionable, and measurable against business outcomes.
- Lead product management initiatives across the full product lifecycle—from strategy and definition through launch, ongoing enhancements, maintenance, and end-of-life—ensuring effective execution of product modifications and upgrades.
- Conduct competitive analysis and market research to inform product strategy and pricing
- Mentor and cultivate potential in team members, including direct reports, to drive innovation and creativity.
Preferred Qualifications & Competencies
- Ability to thrive in entrepreneurial environments, embrace ambiguity, and be motivated by the potential to make a lasting impact from the ground up.
- Demonstrated understanding of the domestic and global standards-development ecosystem and technical-information marketplace, including how members, engineers, laboratories, manufacturers, government agencies, academic users, and other stakeholders access, interpret, apply, and manage standards and related content.
- Undergraduate degree required; MBA or equivalent preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in product development, including owning a B2B or enterprise software product end-to-end. Proven experience leading products that sit at the intersection of business insight, data science, and engineering.
- Strong understanding of real-world structured data merging, schema linking, and model evaluation at scale.
- Ability to communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders — from model latency to customer value.
- Demonstrated experience taking products from early concept to market (i.e., product strategy, roadmap ownership, and launch) across multiple products, customer segments, or markets
- Demonstrated use of AI across working practice and products that shipped or shaped where AI was core to the product, as well as experience guiding market evaluation, business cases, pricing, commercialization plans, and product investment decisions
- Extensive working knowledge and management experience in developing and/or marketing profitable technical publications/ content for publishers.
- Understanding of the technology and data structure behind STEM publishing
- Excelling in Agile SAFe Methodology and AI Fluency
- Experience in directing and supervising direct reports in product management.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal relations skills
- Exceptional oral, written and presentation skills.
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Strong negotiation and mediation skills.
- Fluent written and spoken English language skills.
- Ability to travel 20% of time
- Ability to thrive in a virtual office
This job description is not intended to provide an all-inclusive listing of related job activities. Associates may be requested by management to perform other related activities in place of or in addition to those representative activities noted in this job description.
ASTM International is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans
Skills Required
- Undergraduate degree
- Minimum 10 years of product development experience
- Experience owning a B2B or enterprise software product end-to-end
- Experience leading products at the intersection of business insight, data science, and engineering
- Experience taking products from concept to market, including strategy, roadmaps, and launches
- Experience using AI in working practices or shipped products
- Experience guiding market evaluation, business cases, pricing, commercialization, and product investment decisions
- Experience directing and supervising product management direct reports
- Understanding of structured data merging, schema linking, and model evaluation at scale
- Understanding of the domestic and global standards-development ecosystem and technical-information marketplace
- Working knowledge and management experience developing or marketing technical publications or content for publishers
- Understanding of technology and data structures behind STEM publishing
- Proficiency in Agile SAFe methodology and AI fluency
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, oral, written, and presentation skills
- Critical thinking, problem-solving, negotiation, and mediation skills
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Ability to travel 20% of the time
- MBA or equivalent
What We Do
ASTM International is a global standards-development organization that brings technical experts, businesses, governments, and other stakeholders together to create and maintain voluntary consensus standards. Its standards cover materials, products, systems, and services across more than 90 different industry sectors, helping improve quality, safety, compliance, market access, and consumer confidence. ASTM also provides related technical publications, training, proficiency testing, certification, and digital tools to support standards development and use.
