Title: Associate Director of Product Location: Ann Arbor United States Modes of Work Hybrid Full/Part Time Full-Time Regular/Temporary Regular FLSA Status Exempt Organizational Group Vp Acad Innovation Department Center for Academic Innovation Salary $120,000.00 - $130,000.00 Career Interest Information Technology Job Description: Who We Are Through curricular innovation, tools for student success, and educational research and analytics, the University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation is building the future of education. Our vision is a future in which education connects and empowers learners everywhere to reach their full potential throughout their lives. To realize our vision, we make it our mission to collaborate across campus and around the world to create equitable, lifelong educational opportunities for learners everywhere. About the Marketing & Market Strategy Team The Marketing and Market Strategy team works with all the center's teams to help enhance the center's awareness and reputation, lead enrollments in online learning experiences, lead user experience and product design, and conduct market research. The product management function within the team is responsible for advancing the Michigan Online product and technical ecosystem through squad-based, collaborative, multidisciplinary teamwork. Responsibilities* Product Strategy & Leadership - Translate executive priorities into a cohesive product vision and outcome-driven roadmap that balances learner needs, institutional goals, and technical scalability. - Partner with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Chief Learning Officer (CLO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and colleagues to ensure Michigan Online initiatives drive measurable institutional impact (e.g., learner reach, engagement). - Operate as a senior contributor within Michigan Online cross-functional squads, supporting discovery and owning key delivery outcomes. - Contribute to the overall Michigan Online ecosystem strategy that balances the needs of diverse stakeholders, including global lifelong learners, U-M students, and U-M faculty/administrators. Product Management Practice - Mature the Product Operating Model across the center, collaborating with senior leadership and peers to advance an outcome-oriented mindset. - Build a culture of discovery, leveraging user research, rapid iteration, and data-informed decision-making in collaboration with research colleagues and squad teams. - Engage with users and stakeholders to understand product needs and value drivers, including representing Michigan Online at on campus and off campus events. - Form strong partnerships with engineering and UX design colleagues and other disciplines to sustain empowered, cross-functional product squads. - Execute and refine product management processes (discovery and delivery documentation, opportunity prioritization, etc.) to increase the velocity of value delivery. - Define and champion key metrics for Michigan Online; establish a framework for experimentation and evaluation of progress against strategic priorities/outcomes. Team Supervision - Supervise and mentor current product manager, with the potential for future team growth - Manage team member workload; establish, share, and monitor priorities; review their work for strategic alignment and quality. - Provide mentorship, identify and suggest relevant professional development opportunities, and adhere to CAI performance management processes. - Maintain a team environment that is respectful and upholds U-M Workplace Values by setting clear expectations for behavior, and leading team and individual conversations. What You'll Do The Center for Academic Innovation is seeking a strategic and collaborative Associate Director of Product to help shape the future of Michigan Online-the university's platform for online and lifelong learning. This individual will lead and grow our product management function, working closely with engineering, user experience design, and other partners to support high-performing, cross-functional product squads. The Associate Director of Product will bring a discovery mindset and a strong focus on achieving outcomes. They will initially serve as a hands-on product leader and supervisor for our existing product manager, helping to scale a product culture across the center. This position reports to the Chief Marketing Officer. Required Qualifications* - Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; advanced degrees or relevant certifications (e.g., Agile, Product Management, UX) are a plus. - 6-8 years of experience in product management consistent with the `product operating model,' with at least 2 years in a leadership or mentoring role. - Demonstrated success owning products end-to-end-from vision through launch, iteration, and retirement (edtech, SaaS, or academic experience a plus). - Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and business stakeholders. - Strong, proactive communication and collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to drive alignment in complex environments. - Experience using qualitative and quantitative data (e.g., user research, product analytics, A/B testing) to inform product strategy and measure impact. - Ability to learn and appropriately use new technologies to improve processes, communication, and outcomes, including AI-enabled tools where relevant to the role, consistent with university policy and job responsibilities. Modes of Work The work requirements allow both onsite and offsite work and an employee has an expected recurring onsite presence. On occasion, the employee may be required and must be available to work onsite more frequently if necessitated by unit leadership or their designee and/or the job requirements. Additional Information Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the United States. The mode of work for this position is Hybrid, with a minimum of 4 days in the office per week, Monday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Fridays. On occasion, you may be required and must be available to work onsite on Fridays if necessitated by our center's policy and domain leadership or by your job requirements. The salary for this position will be based on the selected candidate's education and experience. We support the creative, responsible, and ethical use of AI tools to enhance our work, in alignment with institutional policies and best practices. Organizational Statement on Harassment We believe all individuals deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and have the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes mutual respect and a safe space for collaboration. Any concerns shared with any staff members and student employees in the Center for Academic Innovation will be reported to the Equity, Civil Rights, & Title IX Office to be reviewed and addressed, and the Center for Academic Innovation encourages reporting of any forms of harassment, including sexual and gender-based harassment. Salary Information The general salary range for this position is $120,000 - $130,000. Candidates can expect to be paid a competitive and equitable salary. Factors used to determine salary include education level, experience, knowledge, and skills for the position, and salaries that are currently established within the unit. All candidates are encouraged to discuss salary questions to honor alignment and transparency throughout the recruiting process. Background Screening The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third-party administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Role Description PMI is looking for a Director, Strategic Product Marketing, who will own the product marketing strategy and GTM orchestration across PMI’s full portfolio. The Director, Strategic Product Marketing turns market insight, product strategy, research, practitioner understanding, and operational readiness into clear portfolio positioning, integrated GTM plans, market education, and measurable commercial outcomes. This is a portfolio-led role with four connected responsibilities: - Product marketing - Content strategy for GTM - Evangelism and profession-level storytelling - GTM operations/readiness governance The Director operates at altitude with executives, at ground level with launch teams, and in coaching mode with their team that includes junior Product Marketing Manager (PMM) talent and Go To Market (GTM) operations capability. Qualifications - 8–12+ years of product marketing, portfolio marketing, product management, or related strategic marketing experience. - Experience leading or directly managing marketers, ideally including junior or developing team members. - Strong understanding of the project management discipline and profession, or deep experience in an adjacent professional certification, education, workforce, SaaS, learning, or knowledge-platform business. - Proven ability to build positioning and messaging for complex product portfolios, not just individual launches. - Experience turning research, thought leadership, customer insight, and market signals into product positioning, GTM strategy, sales narratives, and campaign briefs. - Experience building product marketing and GTM systems for a complex portfolio, including launch tiering, readiness planning, stakeholder alignment, and post-launch optimization. - Ability to connect strategic positioning with operational execution, ensuring that GTM promises are supported by web, commerce, delivery, enablement, content, and customer-facing readiness. - Comfort working across operationally complex product environments where delivery partners, web/product detail pages, certification or assessment requirements, commerce flows, and regional execution affect market success. - Experience developing integrated marketing plans across web, email/CRM, content, PR/comms, sales enablement, community, paid media, partner marketing, and regional activation. - Experience supporting multiple sales or distribution motions, such as DTC retail, direct sales, online commerce, partner channels, B2B, or distribution. - Ability to work in a global organization with multiple stakeholders across regions, functions, and time zones. - Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to simplify complexity, defend strategic choices, and align stakeholders before execution begins. - Strong writing ability, including messaging, briefs, sales narratives, web copy, launch materials, and executive-ready recommendations. - Portfolio thinking: Ability to see how products connect, overlap, compete, sequence, and ladder into a stronger market story. - PMM system-building: Ability to create clearer briefs, launch standards, GTM playbooks, readiness processes, and repeatable ways of working — not just execute individual launches. - Market education mindset: Ability to shape understanding, shift audience beliefs, and explain why PMI’s products and capabilities matter now. - Content-aware positioning: Ability to use research, thought leadership, community insight, customer proof, and practitioner expertise to strengthen product positioning and GTM strategy. - Roadmap influence: Ability to bring market signals back to product and identify what should be built, clarified, packaged, prioritized, or retired. - Executive translation: Ability to explain complex portfolio strategy clearly to executives, product leaders, sales teams, partners, regional stakeholders, and external audiences. - Cross-functional leadership: Ability to align teams across product, marketing, content, creative, web, sales, delivery, partner, and regional functions before execution begins. - Operational judgment: Ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, timelines, and launch complexity while maintaining strategic focus. Requirements - Travel up to 30% Benefits - An excellent total package, with compensation and benefits based upon your geographic location. - Skill development opportunities, to help you grow now and into the future. - Access to a global network, to enrich your professional experience. - Flexible options to help balance work time and your time. - Award and bonus opportunities.

Role Description I have an opportunity for a Digital Marketing / Product Line Manager - (REMOTE). Position: Digital Marketing / Product Line Manager Location: 100% Remote Duration: 6+ Months Contract Top 3 Skills: - Marketing technologies such as web and product stores (or eCommerce) - Program management experience - Partnership with business marketing functions Skills: - 10+ years of progressive experience in IT or business management with leadership level experience in technology development - Proven experience in building and leading customer-facing digital capabilities and eCommerce operations, with demonstrated success managing initiatives from conception through delivery with quantifiable results in a multi-channel environment throughout different countries Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Define and develop digital platform/services to enable strategic business priorities in this domain - Oversee the technology portfolio of our e-Commerce, web stores, and commercial web content - Create and take accountability for the execution of a plan to integrate the best of the best capabilities of client and a recent acquisition of Hillrom to create a single presence for our customers that utilizes common digital capabilities as a foundation - Collaborate with other IT product line owners and product owners to enable the vision of the best experience for our customers - Serve as the program manager during digital service delivery, enlisting involvement from other functional or business executives, re-establishing priorities, and acting as a coach during the rollout of digital capabilities to ensure technical and business readiness - Bring together the diverse skills required to create focus, momentum, processes, standards and governance to execute/optimize our digital presence with our customers Company Description NAVTECH INC 1600 Golf Road. Suite 1200, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 Ph: (224) 348-1340 Email: alex@navtechusa.com Website: www.navtechusa.com E-Verified Company