Director of Product Management, Award Management

Role overview A Director of Product Management role owning the Award Management suite within a cloud platform that supports research institutions through the sponsored project lifecycle. Reporting to the SVP of Product Management, the position is a player-coach seat responsible for leading a team of product managers and shaping a multi-year, multi-platform strategy. Success looks like a coherent product strategy, a growing and delivering PM team, and a roadmap that balances customer needs, platform investments, and business objectives across the portfolio.

Responsibilities - Own the product vision and multi-year roadmap for the Award Management suite in alignment with company strategy and growth goals - Build, lead, and develop a team of product managers, including goal-setting, coaching, and talent growth - Define and execute a multi-platform strategy that sequences investment across products serving different stages of the sponsored project lifecycle - Partner with engineering leadership on platform migrations, consolidations, and modernization work, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health - Represent Award Management strategy and roadmap to the executive team and broader stakeholders, and contribute to company-level planning - Partner with sales, marketing, and customer success on packaging, pricing, and go-to-market readiness - Lead customer and market discovery across research institutions to validate strategic bets and surface unmet needs - Champion Agile practices and hold the team accountable to consistent execution quality

Requirements - 8+ years of B2B product management experience, including managing other product managers - Proven track record defining and executing product strategy across a multi-platform or multi-product B2B SaaS portfolio - Experience operating within Agile environments across distributed teams - Hands-on experience with platform migrations, product consolidations, or modernization efforts - Strong history of setting roadmap priorities based on customer needs, business impact, and technical feasibility - Comfort navigating ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and driving alignment across teams outside direct reporting lines - Excellent communication and facilitation skills across customer conversations and executive roadmap reviews - Experience in research administration, higher education, or grants and award management software - Familiarity with the sponsored project lifecycle spanning proposals, awards, agreements, and financial compliance - Experience at a PE-backed company with ARR-oriented reporting expectations - Working fluency with AI tools to accelerate discovery synthesis, roadmap planning, and competitive analysis

Benefits and work setup - Competitive medical benefits with PPO and HSA options - Vision, dental, and short-term disability fully covered - Unlimited PTO plus holidays and a flexible work schedule - Remote work stipend - Equal paid parental leave - 401k with employer matching - Quarterly wellness reimbursement - Fully remote work environment