Director, Product

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Talespin is building the platform to transform talent development and skill alignment for the future of work. Our spatial computing products deliver a new standard for learning and workforce data, empowering organizations, and individuals to make better talent and career decisions. We’re looking for an experienced Director, Product for our Product team to help drive our mission to transform the way humans learn, work, and collaborate. 

As a Director, Product, you will provide leadership in platform innovation and drive buy-in for our vision with our stakeholders. To be successful in this role, you must be able to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced technical environment, balance strategic vision with attention to details, and approach problems from a data and systems-design perspective. You will be working closely with a variety of stakeholders to understand their current workflows, identify gaps and goals, develop requirements, prioritize initiatives and lead the product roadmap, from conception through launch to ongoing development and operational oversight. This is a customer interfacing position, and you will need to be highly collaborative and a creative problem solver, who can effectively communicate and influence at all levels of the Talespin organization.


In This Role You Will:

  • Lead a multifunctional team from project formation to scoping, design and delivery
  • Drive product planning, definition, execution, user engagement and feedback cycles
  • Define and own the release process and coordinate all of the activities required to bring new product and features to market
  • Develop budgets, forecasts, and metrics
  • Recommend new technology and ideas to improve sprints and efficiency
  • Conduct research on market and customers to identify trends and opportunities for future growth
  • Develop, and implement strategies, specifications, designs, and proposals to achieve business goals
  • Ability to innovate new concepts, features and optimized user experiences
  • Work closely with both internal/external stakeholders to identify and evaluate new product opportunities
  • Develop and implement a framework for predicting product success in market
  • Develop and implement best practices across the team for generating user stories and development requirements based on use cases and business requirements
  • Articulate user stories, requirements, define business value, and identify success metrics for our existing/new products and features
  • Manage the product lifecycle from concept to launch, including the product implementation schedule
  • Manage vendors/ and write SOWs
  • Support Commercial efforts through client meetings and creative solutions


What We Look For in a Candidate:

  • Bachelor’s (BA or BS) in business, computer science, or related field
  • An MBA or other advanced degree preferred
  • At least 10 years of experience in software product/program management in a fast-growing software product organization
  • Leadership experience hiring, leading, and developing a team of product managers in a fast growing software development environment
  • Experience using data to drive important business decisions
  • Strong understanding of mobile and web technologies and industries
  • Working knowledge of agile development methodologies
  • Experience launching multiple digital products
  • The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • An ability to think strategically and creatively
  • Superior interpersonal and communication skills
  • Diligent attention to detail and strong technical intuition
  • Excellent leadership skills with experience leading cross-functional teams
  • The ability to manage time and schedules to meet aggressive deadlines and influence through written and verbal communication
  • Preference for client-services experience, and ability to work with a variety of senior stakeholders and interest groups
  • AR VR Unity development experience is a plus
  • Prior experience working in a technology start-up environment
  • Experience working with Jira and Confluence is a plus
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