Director, Product Management

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Director, Product Management leads the transformation of The Bump’s platform to support our ambition to be the go-to, global offering that empowers every new parent to confidently navigate decisions throughout the parenting journey, on a path to a $50M+ business. This person will establish the product strategy and roadmap to enable us to realize our ambition while leading a talented team to drive success.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Define and own management of the product strategy and roadmap for The Bump by engaging with senior leaders, assessing user insights, analyzing market trends, and aligning to overall business objectives.
• Establish The Bump as a pregnancy and parenting leader by empowering us to adopt among the emergence of AI, LLMs, and community commerce.
• Ladder our roadmap to our long term strategy and own a portfolio of Product OKRs by orchestrating efforts across our Build team.
• Motivate a team and bring out the best in everyone. You provide your team guidance and feedback so that they are always working on the most important problems and approaching those problems in the best ways.
• Create and manage a system of iteration and learning to generate incremental success on key product features while building toward the future.
• Define and prove product/market fit for new initiatives.
• Create hypotheses for strategic growth areas and lead a fast paced learning agenda. Assess impact of key product features with data available.

• Regularly seek out, analyze, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data.
• Inspire action through strong thought partnership and collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate to your team, senior leadership, and the broader organization

SUCCESSFUL DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT CANDIDATES HAVE:

• 7+ years in product development in an agile environment.
• Track record of addressing consumer needs with a blend of commerce and/or community driving app first experiences. 
• Start-up or growth stage experience is a plus.  
• Well versed in personalization, app first design, commerce and community. 
• Exceptional product sense and a user first mind-set.
• Structures strategic conversations, synthesizes user research and insights, can drive product/market fit, and logically breaks down a problem into hypotheses.
• You can create journey based experiences that delight users in partnership with UX team members; product marketing experience and/or mindset is a plus.  
• You can set strategic direction at the 3-year, 1-year, and quarterly timeframes
• You can provide the leadership, guidance, and feedback that helps your team ideate and launch new products and improve existing ones.
• You always refer to quantitative and qualitative data in making product decisions and have experience with analytics and research tools + methods and comfort with analytical tools
• You have a track record of creating quality consumer experiences that solve real user needs and drive business growth.
• You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with your partners and executives.
• You care about Outcomes over Outputs - goals matter more than the roadmap - and you think about roadmaps in terms of hypotheses not features.
• You have keen aesthetics and empathy, and a user-centered mentality.
• You’re a strong partner to your