Sr. Director, Product Manager

Senior leader driving strategy, execution, and P&L for a regulated, safety-critical service line. Translates market insights into scalable offerings while ensuring compliance and operational alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of service-line strategy and roadmaps aligned to enterprise priorities and market needs
• Accountable for achieving revenue growth, margin, and cost targets within approved plans and budgets, in partnership with Finance
• Translate customer, market, regulatory, and competitive insights into scalable service enhancements and new offerings
• Partner with Finance on planning, forecasting, pricing analysis, and performance tracking
• Establish and monitor KPIs tied to financial, operational, customer, and strategic outcomes
• Evaluate new capabilities, technologies, and process improvements; develop business cases and recommendations for executive approval
• Monitor service performance and identify opportunities to improve unit economics, quality, safety, and customer outcomes
• Collaborate closely with Operations to ensure strategies and roadmaps align with field delivery models, safety standards, and compliance requirements
• Partner with Technology, Data, Sales, and Account Management to ensure effective enablement, adoption, and market positioning
• Support decisions related to launching, scaling, adapting, or retiring services by providing data, analysis, and operational readiness assessments
• Ensure regulatory, safety, and compliance considerations are embedded into all service and product decisions
• Build alignment and drive outcomes through credibility, insight, structured communication, and collaboration
• Engage with key customers and industry stakeholders as appropriate to inform strategy and validate assumptions, with executive visibility as required

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in product management, service-line ownership, or adjacent roles within utility locating, damage prevention, or field-based regulated services
• Previous experience in either the telecommunications or construction industry
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Demonstrated accountability for financial performance, budget management, or business-case ownership
• Deep domain expertise in utility locating or closely adjacent services, including field workflows, compliance, safety requirements, customer contracts, and service economics
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives and influence outcomes across Operations, Finance, Technology, Sales, and Human Resources teams
• Strong analytical skills, strategic judgment, financial acumen, and roadmap execution experience
• Ability to travel as needed (about 50%)

Schedule

100% remote with up to 50% nationwide travel.