Western Psychological Services
Senior Director of Product Management
🇺🇸 Remote - Torrance, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $160K - $190K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ May 13th, 2025
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WPS is hiring a Senior Director, Product Management. The role involves leading the product vision and roadmap while overseeing product lifecycle management and guiding a team to deliver innovative solutions. The position requires building relationships within the organization and working with stakeholders to develop new product solutions.
Highlights
- Lead a diverse team of product managers and product owners.
- Oversee product lifecycle from ideation through launch and end-of-life.
- Utilize data-driven insights and conduct competitive analysis.
- Proven track record in product development and launch.
- Strong strategic, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Requires 10+ years of experience in product management, with 5 years in leadership.
- MBA or equivalent experience preferred.
- Annual salary range between $160,000 and $190,000.
- Minimal travel requirements to Torrance Headquarters, quarterly.
Senior Director of Product Management Full Description
Senior Director of Product Management
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Torrance, CA, US
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Salary Range:
$160,000.00 To $190,000.00 Annually
Position Title: Senior Director, Product Management
Reports to: VP of Product
FLSA: Exempt
EEO: Professionals
Manages others: Yes
Location: Remote
Department: Product
General Job Description
WPS is seeking a strategic, results-driven Senior Director of Product Management to lead our product vision and roadmap. This role plays an integral part in e is responsible for overseeing product lifecycle management and guiding a high-performing team to deliver innovative solutions that drive business growth and enhances customer satisfaction.
The individual understands the importance of relationship building, communication, and collaboration within the organization and requires someone who will work seamlessly with stakeholders across the organization to include assessment content developers, finance, marketing, and our external customers. The individual will be responsible for implementing product life cycle management from product idea generation to tactical activities The Senior Director will partner with the VP of Content Development in ideation and concept generation for the purpose of developing new product solutions.
Essential Responsibilities
- Champion a customer-/market-centric approach to product development.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a diverse team of product managers and product owners.
- Identify clear measurable goals to ensure product team members are set up for success.
- Build and maintain deep relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders to align product initiatives with broader business objectives.
- Oversee the product lifecycle from ideation through launch, iteration, and end-of-life.
- Utilize data-driven insights to refine product strategies and make informed decisions.
- Conduct competitive analysis and stay informed about emerging industry trends.
- Drive innovation by leveraging customer feedback, market research, and performance data.
- This job description does not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee in this role. Activities, duties, or responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.
Position Requirements (Skills, Knowledge, Abilities):
- Proven track record of developing and launching successful products
- Strong strategic, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional experience and leadership in building and managing great product teams.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and with resiliency both in the normal course of business, but also when implementing change management when needed.
- Experience working and utilizing modern product management tools and methodologies.Proven track record in building collaborative partnerships across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, with the ability to influence and communicate cross-functionally and at all levels of the organization.
- MBA, or equivalent experience
- 10+ or more years of experience in Product Management with at least 5 years in aleadership role
- Ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, delegate tasks, and refine new processes.
- Thrive on being an integral part of a high-performing team with the ability to build trust, work effectively with other team members and participate in open and honest collaboration.
Competencies:
- Communication - The ability to convey information in a professional, precise, and easy-to-understand manner for a variety of roles and levels of technical understanding. This is to be done through verbal and written communication methods.
- Decision Making - The ability to make quick and informed decisions based on the process of gathering information, examining your possibilities, comparing them, and choosing a course of action. Understands and contributes to organizations’ short- and long-term business strategies. The ability to adapt traditional methods, concepts, models, designs, technologies, or systems to new applications; or the ability to devise innovative approaches to make improvements or solve problems. The ability to identify and evaluate resources and plan for their utilization throughout the execution of comprehensive, long-range plans.
- Emotional Intelligence - The ability to maintain a rational and objective demeanor when faced with stressful or emotional situations; a measure of self-composure in a difficult situation and the ability to act objectively, rather than impulsively or emotionally.
- Leadership- The most essential part of a leader’s job is to understand & convey goals, coach/mentor, and motivate employees. The ability to organize and motivate people to get things accomplished in such a way that everyone feels a sense of order and direction.
- Problem/Situation Analysis- the ability to identify the elements of a problem situation and to understand which components are critical; the ability to identify critical activities in a process. To be able to break the process down into its component activities. And to develop scenarios for consideration
- Relating to Others- the ability to coordinate personal insights and knowledge of others into effective actions; the ability to make use of accurate interpersonal skills in interacting with others. The ability to persuade others, to present one’s viewpoint in such a way that it is accepted by others. The ability to understand the needs, interests, strengths, and weaknesses of others. And to utilize this information for contributing to the growth and development of others.
- Results Orientation - the ability to identify actions necessary to achieve task completion and to obtain results; the ability to meet schedules, deadlines, quotas, and performance goals.
- Teamwork- Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results throughout the organization
- Technical Curiosity / Willingness to Learn- Interest in seeking out new experiences, knowledge, and candid feed, back, demonstrating openness to learning and change
Physical Requirements:
(The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
- The employee may regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision and Distance vision.
- The auditory/hearing abilities required by the job include hearing others using a phone or online conferencing system.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
- This individual must be a responsible person, and regular attendance is required.
Travel: Minimal visits to the Torrance Headquarters, quarterly
WPS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AA M/F/V/D.
We proudly hire U.S. Military Veterans, and those qualified are encouraged to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunity is The Law. | Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination ProvisionAt this time, WPS is unable to provide visa sponsorship.
We use E-Verify and submit information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
