Director of Product

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Sponsor EDC Integration Vision: Own the product strategy for the EDC, eSource, and Integrations portfolio, and define and champion the strategic vision for a best-in-class integration between CRIO's eSource platform and sponsor EDC systems, translating that vision into an executable roadmap at the annual and quarterly level.
• Team Leadership and Talent Development: Build, lead, and grow a high-performing team of product owners across each team; attract and retain top product talent, and develop future product leaders through coaching and clear growth paths.
• Cross-Team Portfolio Leadership: Lead product planning and execution across each team in close partnership with the engineering manager who leads the same teams, coordinating dependencies, budgets, and resourcing to ensure cohesive, non-duplicative delivery.
• Executive and Sponsor-Facing Communication: Represent the product strategy to executive leadership, the board, and enterprise sponsors; present roadmaps, business cases, and KPI results in a clear, compelling, and data-driven way.
• Market and Competitive Intelligence: Serve as the internal expert on the sponsor EDC landscape (e.g., systems such as Medidata Rave and Veeva EDC) and eClinical integration standards, and bring that expertise into strategy and roadmap decisions.
• KPI Ownership and Data-Driven Decision-Making: Partner with senior leadership to define, quantify, and track the KPIs that determine the success of the sponsor EDC integration offering; use data, customer feedback, and market research to guide decisions and demonstrate ROI.
• Portfolio and Backlog Governance: Oversee prioritization frameworks and backlog governance across each team, ensuring committed milestones are met while balancing near-term commitments with the long-term integration vision.
• Risk and Trade-off Management: Identify, communicate, and mitigate product, technical, and compliance risk related to data exchange with sponsor systems, and own the outcomes of difficult trade-off decisions.
• Mentorship Across the Team: Mentor product owners on each team, elevate their strategic and analytical capabilities, and build product management maturity and best practices across the group.
• Agile and Delivery Excellence: Champion agile best practices across each team and partner with engineering leadership on release planning, capacity, and continuous improvement.
• Customer and Sponsor Advocacy: Engage directly with sponsors, CROs, and sites using or evaluating the integration, translating their feedback and workflow needs into product strategy and priorities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in software product management or product ownership, including 3+ years in a people-management or director-level capacity, with direct experience on EDC, eSource, or clinical data integration products.
• Proven track record building, leading, and developing high-performing product teams, including managing multiple product lines simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to translate company strategy into departmental goals for a sponsor EDC integration, and to define and track the KPIs that measure success.
• Strong executive presence, with experience presenting to and influencing C-suite executives, sponsors, or enterprise customers.
• Deep expertise in agile/scrum methodologies at scale, including experience overseeing multiple concurrent teams.
• Strong technical depth in APIs, data integration/interoperability patterns, and sponsor EDC systems (e.g., Medidata Rave, Veeva EDC), paired with the business acumen to prioritize trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of engaging engineers, sponsors, and executives alike.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strategic relationships internally and externally, including with sponsors and enterprise customers.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, and retaining top product talent.
• Experience partnering with product owners to ensure product requirements are thorough, well-informed by user research, and cover the full scope of user and business needs.
• Experience with product discovery methodologies and frameworks.
• Background scaling an integration or data-platform product from early stage to a mature, widely adopted offering.
• Bachelor's degree or comparable experience in business or product management.