Product Director Job Description
Product director
provides support to the Pharmaceutical Development, Operations, Regulatory Affairs, and Materials Management groups to promote continuity of product lifecycle management.
Product Director Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective product director job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included product director job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide hands on project management and actively manage project plan, deliverables, dependencies and outcome
Encourages a high energy, engaging, servant culture
Creates consistent, well defined expectations and accountability for all implementation teams
Coaches managers in creating efficient daily workflow processes through the use of operational metrics to gauge performance
Serves as executive contact for escalated customer issues
Utilizes industry expertise to initiate product development, addressing customer needs and improving implementation efficiencies
Performs bi-annual reviews, with emphasis on regular mentoring of managers
Assists managers in talent recruitment and hiring
Advocates the accomplishments and challenges of the implementation team to the organization
Manages the development of drug product formulation with Shire contractors
Product Director Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Product Director
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CISSP, PMP, CEH, APICS, CSPO, CISM, MS, OSCP, ISSAP, CSSLP
Education for Product Director
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the product director job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in MBA, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Technical, Management, Education, Business/Administration, Statistics
Skills for Product Director
Desired skills for product director include:
Pharmaceutical marketing that includes FDA
Pharmaceutical marketing that includes FDA regulatory and legal environment and HCC regulations
Regulatory
Reimbursement
Complex projects and activities
Pharmaceutical marketing that includes FDA regulatory and legal environment
Project management
Lean product principles
Software development lifecycle
Experience with requirements management
Desired experience for product director includes:
BS in Marketing or related relevant discipline or equivalent work experience
7 to 10 years' experience in product management, consumer marketing strategy, new products within cable, telecom, consumer products, or related industries
Occasional travel to the US and UK offices
Regular visits to vendors both nationally and internationally
At least 4 years experience working with MSP
Big five consulting experience
Product Director Examples
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Product Director Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a product director. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for product director
- Monitors and maintains Corporate Gross Margin for product categories
- Leads Retail and Outlet Divisions – All Seasons
- Aligns development across Retail and Outlet and across divisions where applicable
- Owns development analysis and strategies to improve challenges
- 10-15 years in product development role – leather goods, apparel, footwear
- Experience supporting a design and development process
- Experience working for a luxury a brand a plus
- Experience working with local and global manufacturers
- Manage/mentor other Product Managers
- Full life-cycle product management (from strategy/concept development to tactical execution)
Qualifications for product director
- Knowledge of clinical supply requirements and regulations
- Must have a working knowledge of various analytical methods used during the development of pharmaceutical products, including, but not limited to, HPLC, IR, UV, NMR, Mass Spec., dissolution and tablet hardness
- Management skills for coaching less experienced team members and/or reporting staff (employees and/or contractors)
- Coordinate and expedite the development and introduction of new products by establishing timelines and tasking resources across various departments
- Identify and manage overall project dependencies and ensure project deliverables stay on track
- Identify on a timely basis all project barriers and identify strategies and approaches to overcome these barriers
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of product director. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product director
- Lead all aspects of design and user experience for our products
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of designers/user experience experts
- Work with SYP leaders to develop our product strategy and vision
- Partner with product and development leads to prototype and build digital products
- Go to pixel-perfect levels with your well-tuned instinct, skill, passion, and tenacity
- Manages the product team resources including the review and approval of Product deliverables (PRDs, wire frames, release communication, user stories)
- Serves as main point of contact for for internal and external communication around product roadmap, updates, releases
- You will be responsible for your products throughout the full product lifecycle
- You will drive vision and strategy and delivery of your products
- Inspire teams to to build breakthrough products
Qualifications for product director
- Strong knowledge of Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing principles
- Experience with establishing and implementing data governance best practices, solving business and technology issues related to the sharing, extraction and usage of enterprise information assets
- Proven track record of working in a matrix environment, and building collaborative work relationships across various departments
- Hands-on expertise in good programming and data management practices
- Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office programs including at minimum Word, Excel, Outlook and SharePoint
- Ability to affect change in individuals that do not report to you
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a product director. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for product director
- Develop and manage assigned budgets
- 8-10+ years of building great products that customers love
- Experience in leading, managing product managers and cross-functional teams (and a POV on how to do it well)
- Proven track record of defining strategy, creating advocacy/alignment and being accountable for outcomes
- Fortune 200 network to foster strategic relationships with startups, VCs and academics
- Superstar product, design, data and engineering leaders [Paypal, Google, Intuit, fin tech start-ups, Adaptive Path, IDEO]
- Manage multiple project teams and external partners to deliver innovative mobile social gaming applications
- Collaborate with product managers, artists, and engineers to deliver high quality products on time and on budget
- Motivate, guide and empower team members to achieve superior results
- Drive studio strategy and business model, and take ownership of the roadmap
Qualifications for product director
- Must have the ability influence stakeholders at all levels
- 5 years of product development and management experience in the media/interactive space and solid experience with hands-on product development
- Demonstrated business savvy and financial acumen through a broad-based understanding of key business fundamentals in an international workplace
- 5+ years of game product management experience
- Direct experience in social and/or mobile gaming in leadership role
- Able to work in a high-paced, deadline-driven environment
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a product director. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for product director
- Collaborate on roadmaps with other teams and stakeholders to drive direction and priorities, both strategic and tactical
- Identify, track, prioritize and drive resolution of project/program level issues, leveraging lessons learned from prior experience and work to address and mitigate systemic issues
- Identify product launch risks and develop risk mitigation techniques to minimize issues
- Supervises the activities of associates to ensure completion
- Work closely with content, production, online, and media teams to oversee the production process for all Accountancy products from initiation to release
- Business Planning & Execution - Work closely with team to develop business plans related to area of focus
- Contributes to driving the strategic direction and application of machine learning technologies
- Oversee vendor management all scalable education efforts for both internal and external resources such as training paths, help center content, new product releases
- Align with portfolio business objectives
- Ensure Screening products achieve their budgeted revenue and expense goals and that all desired returns on investments (ROI) are achieved
Qualifications for product director
- Experience authoring requirements that deliver animation, video, mobile/tablet, content management, user tracking
- Create, drive and execute holistic product strategy
- Monitor budgets and operational effectiveness
- 8 or more years of experience developing rich interactive web applications for consumers and enterprises
- 2 or more years leading a cross-functional team
- Experience developing secure web-based systems using Java, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a product director. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for product director
- Work with other Product Managers and Business Analysts to help define requirements and translate into Epics, Features and User Stories
- Work closely with development, client teams and the management team to bring products from inception to market
- Develop effective product messaging and collateral such as white papers, press releases, and product releases
- Lead and represent Screening in product User Groups and Focus Groups
- Lead efforts to lifecycle manage, Phase-in/Phase-out of new and current products and keep inventory levels in control
- Accountability to results of the strategy
- Partnering and collaborating with global stakeholder leadership teams to establish strategy, goals and directives for a group of product teams that share the same customer and high level mission
- Monitoring and investigating customer feedback, net promoter scores, and customer service metrics to make sure customer needs and concerns are being addressed
- Leading product/policy decisions and issue resolutions that a) require cross-team participation, b) are escalated by product teams, and/or c) impact strategic direction and may require executive support or participation
- Serving as high visibility interface for product teams with customers and partners at gatherings and events including “HomeAway Owner Summits” and “RezFest” conferences
Qualifications for product director
- Experienced communicator and influencer across all levels of the organization including C-level executives
- Demonstrated analytical skills and ability to develop robust strategy and business plans
- Team building and people management experience
- Experience with organizations that market globally
- Exhibit excellent judgment - Relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
- Bachelors degree in business, MBA preferred with an emphasis on marketing or related field or an equivalent combination of experience and education