The Jon Renau Director of Product Development oversees the entire lifecycle of the company's products ensuring a seamless transition from conception to launch; responsible for driving innovation, managing the product lifecycle, ensuring our products meet market demands & customer expectations while aligning with business goals.
Strategize, plan, and execute initiatives to bring innovative products to market.
Sets the direction and goals for the product portfolio, aligning them with the business objectives and customer needs.
Define the product vision, roadmap, and value proposition, and communicate them clearly and persuasively to internal and external stakeholders.
Guide product design, development, and testing phases, ensuring alignment with business goals
Market analysis, identifying customer needs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Monitor market trends, competitors, and feedback and adjust the strategy accordingly
Manage timelines, budgets, and risk mitigation, identifying challenges & implementing solutions throughout the product process
Fosters a cohesive work environment, liaise with stakeholders
Serves a crucial role in stakeholder management, handling relationships and expectations from internal and external parties
Oversees the execution and delivery of the product development process, ensuring that it follows the best practices and standards.
Manage the product backlog, prioritize the features, and allocate the resources.
Collaborate with the design, quality assurance, and marketing teams, and provide guidance and feedback throughout the development cycle.
Measure and evaluate the product performance, quality, and user satisfaction, and identify areas for improvement.
Team Management:
Sets the tone for a creative and forward-thinking approach, empowering the product development team to push boundaries and iterate on concepts to suit customers
Championing innovation, they ensure the team remains agile and adaptable to changing market dynamics.
Responsible for driving innovation and experimentation within the team.
Inspire a culture of curiosity and risk-taking, urging team members to explore novel ideas and test hypotheses.
Encourage a mindset of continuous learning, provides resources and support for experimentation, fostering an environment where failure is viewed as a valuable learning experience.
Create a framework and environment for generating, validating, and prototyping new concepts, and support the team in conducting user research, market analysis, and data-driven experiments.
Facilitate the learning and sharing of insights and best practices from the experiments, and promote a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
leads and mentors the product team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and customer-centricity.
Hire, train, and develop the product managers, designers, and empower them to make decisions and solve problems.
Set the expectations, roles, and responsibilities for the team, and provide regular feedback, recognition and performance management.
Resolve any conflicts or issues that arise within or across the teams.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
A director of product development is expected to have a combination of technical, business, and leadership skills, as well as relevant experience and qualifications.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in business, or a related field with at least 5-10 years of experience in product management, preferably in a senior or leadership role.
Proven track record of delivering successful and impactful products from ideation to launch and beyond.
Knowledge of the product development methodologies, tools, and best practices such as agile, scrum, lean, design thinking is essential.
Solid knowledge of the market, customer, and competitor trends and be able to translate them into product opportunities and solutions.
Analytical, problem-solving, decision-making skills are required along with the ability to use data and metrics to inform and validate product decisions.
Communication, presentation, persuasion skills are also necessary for articulating and aligning the product vision, strategy, and value proposition to various audiences.