Director, Product & Delivery

About the role

Rocky Mountain Public Media, Inc. (RMPM) is seeking a Director of Product & Delivery to lead a new team focusing on the organization's most strategically significant products and cross-functional initiatives. Reporting to the Chief Digital Transformation Officer, this role will help redefine how RMPM plans, prioritizes, and delivers, shifting from a project-delivery culture to one that focuses on audience needs and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, evaluate, and develop a team of Program Managers/Product Owners, setting clear expectations and providing direct feedback.
• Own a focused portfolio of RMPM's most strategically significant products and cross-organizational programs, framing each around the audience value and outcomes it must deliver.
• Define and steward the operating model for the Product & Delivery team, including intake, prioritization, road mapping, planning cadences, status reporting, risk management, and retrospectives.
• Partner with the Chief Digital Transformation Officer and executive peers to shape the overall product and portfolio roadmap, grounding sequencing in audience insight and evidence, identifying when to invest, pivot, or stop, and ensuring trade-offs are explicit and well-informed.
• Establish shared standards, templates, and quality bars for the team and continuously evolve them based on what is and is not working.
• Surface cross-portfolio dependencies, risks, and resourcing constraints early, and lead the resolution of the most complex or politically sensitive escalations.
• Serve as a senior delivery voice in executive forums and board-adjacent settings, translating program detail into concise, decision-ready narratives for the CDO, executive team, and board members as needed.
• Partner with the Chief Experience Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and other product and program managers to ensure products and programs are framed and resourced for outcomes, not outputs, and that delivery accountability is clear at every step.
• Champion RMPM's shift from project to product orientation, modeling the behaviors, language, and disciplines required and explicitly building them into how the Program Managers lead their portfolios.
• Participate in RMPM's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training program, using key standards and teachings of DEI training in day-to-day work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, technology, communications, media, or related field; advanced degree or equivalent professional experience preferred.
• 7+ years of experience leading increasingly complex, cross-functional programs in media, technology, digital products, or comparable mission-driven environments, including at least 2 years directly managing other program, product, or delivery professionals.
• Deep fluency with product and delivery practices (agile, lean, dual-track discovery and delivery, OKRs, portfolio management) and a track record of applying them pragmatically to the context at hand.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change, particularly the shift from project-delivery to product-outcomes thinking, and to develop other program leaders into that mindset.
• Experience partnering with C-suite executives and board-adjacent committees on portfolio strategy, status, risk, and trade-off decisions, with the ability to translate detail into executive-ready narratives.
• Strong financial acumen, including comfort with capacity planning, FTE and vendor trade-offs, and program-level ROI conversations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce decision-quality memos and lead high-stakes cross-functional conversations.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, mission-driven public media organization undergoing active integration and transformation, balancing rigor with empathy and adapting to evolving priorities.