DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

About the role

We are looking for a Director of Product Development, a senior leader responsible for defining what gets built, when, and why. This person owns the product roadmap, leads the product development function, and serves as the connective tissue between executive strategy, engineering execution, clinical and regulatory requirements, and customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Set the 12–18 month product roadmap in collaboration with Marketing and consumers insights; align it to company OKRs and present it quarterly to the executive team
• Lead the product development team — direct report(s) at the manager level encompassing engineering, design, and clinical/regulatory partners — including the existing engineering team, which reports to the Director
• Manage and grow the existing engineering team: align on technical direction with the engineering lead, support the engineers' ownership and independent release decisions, run lightweight process that fits a small team, and be the escalation point for product/engineering trade‑offs.
• Own the build/buy/partner decision for new product capabilities; defend the recommendation with cost, time-to-market and risk analysis in partnership with Finance and Marketing.
• Steward cross-functional alignment with Clinical/Medical requirements, Regulatory, Marketing and Sales
• Approve all software releases against quality, security (SOC 2, HIPAA where applicable) and clinical-safety gates
• Own the product discovery process with Marketing — customer research, problem definition, hypothesis testing — and ensure no major feature ships without it
• Hire, develop, and (when necessary) exit product managers; build the team's career framework and review cadence
• Sponsor the teams AI-and-tooling roadmap (AI in discovery, AI features in the product itself, agentic workflows for internal ops)

Experience & Background

• Fluent in both B2B and B2