Senior Director, Product Management
Date: Feb 11, 2025
Location: Dhaka, BD, 1212 BD
Company: Optimizely
At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels. With Optimizely One, our industry-first operating system for marketers, we offer teams flexibility and choice to build their stack their way with our fully SaaS, fully decoupled, and highly composable solution.
We are proud to help more than 10,000 businesses, including H&M, PayPal, Zoom, and Toyota, enrich their customer lifetime value, increase revenue and grow their brands. Our innovation and excellence have earned us numerous recognitions as a leader by industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, reinforcing our role as a trailblazer in MarTech.
At our core, we believe work is about more than just numbers -- it's about the people. Our culture is dynamic and constantly evolving, shaped by every employee, their actions and their stories. With over 1500 Optimizers spread across 12 global locations, our diverse team embodies the "One Optimizely" spirit, emphasizing collaboration and continuous improvement, while fostering a culture where every voice is heard and valued.
Introduction
The Senior Director, Product Management owns business results for broad product area or a product suite, works across products to lead initiatives that impact multiple products, clearly defines individual objectives and development path for each direct report and provides clear, honest, and constructive feedback on a regular basis.
Job Responsibilities
Influence Strategy & Roadmap
Owns one-to-three-year strategic view of how the product solves customer needs for a major area of the business or platform
• Inspires confidence in their direction by having a track record of being right and by supporting their point of view with solid data
• Understands competitive landscape and able to take a broad view across the PM team on most important priorities for the business/platform (i.e. beyond their scope)
• Identifying new market (build or buy) and partnership opportunities, assist with build/partner analysis
• Proactively drives conversations with business and platform leaders to help drive vision/strategy for your area. Collect their input through appropriate channels and at the right altitude.
Deliver Products and Drive Usage
Holds self, direct reports and teams they work with accountable to significant impact on and department performance; undeniable impact on business performance
Structures their team and organization to deliver on the desired outcomes by improving how we operate e.g establish or improve systems to manage product feedback from customer facing teams and customers; establish product scorecard/metric tracking, etc.
Collaborate and Communicate
Expert communicator and collaborator across the organization.
• Is a thought leader with an external presence; communicates externally as a Product expert, either in publications or at events
• Ability to identify and fix barriers to collaboration beyond own product team
• Create alignment on product direction and key decisions across org Leaders, engineering / marketing leaders, other stakeholders
• Consistently translate leadership asks into intention vs. addressing only the specific ask. Also help their team understand intent and drive towards that vs. "Exec said so, let's do this"
Be a Resilient Leader
The leader for company & department strategy that inspires confidence in all stakeholders
• Has a 10x multiplier effect on Optimizely. Actively sought out by other leaders for advice, mentoring within and beyond ADEPT.
• Actively leads changes that enhance Product & ADEPT effectiveness by not only identifying challenges and opportunities, but also implementing changes that make a difference
• Drive improvement to bar raising and meaningfully improve the interview process. Also sought out for cross group interviews.
Knowledge and Experience
Typically 10+ years product experience, or 7+ years product experience with extensive experience with Optimizely (internal transfer or as a customer) and 5+ years managing a team of product ICs.
• Expert business acumen and understanding of the fundamentals of Optimizely's success
• Leads the charge in refining the practice of product management at Optimizely.
• Work consistently extends beyond their core area of responsibility
• Plays a key role in helping ensure Product Development overall meets strategic corporate milestones in the fastest and most effective way possible; Deftly manages even the most complex products and workstreams
• Market Awareness: Sets plans to target and win with ICP(s) in face of competitors. Is relied on for market knowledge throughout the organization.
• Business Expertise: Expert business knowledge. Nuanced perspective on product success within the business and sharing it with teams and leadership
• X-Functional: Leads initiatives, but also makes prioritization decisions between proposed initiatives. Coaches others on leading initiatives. Can see the broader picture and loop in teams/resources for x-functional initiatives that may not have been previously identified.
• Metrics/Data: Uses data beyond the product area (cross-Opti and market) to make decisions about longterm roadmap and to adjust strategy to meet shifting deamnds and competitive realities.
Education
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
Our culture is the most important thing we offer. We continuously aim to provide a high-growth space, both virtually and in person, where you can do your best work and, in the process, unlock your boundless potential. Our new, cutting-edge office space in Dhaka is a testament to our dedication to enhancing your work experience. This state-of-the-art workspace features open workstations, a fully equipped kitchen, a nap room for relaxation, a tranquil zen garden, and an entertaining area, all designed to provide you with the ideal environment to thrive and grow.
As part of our commitment to you, here are other benefits and perks you can expect:
- Best-in-class compensation plans
- Two annual festival bonuses
- Recognition and rewards programs
- Paid Maternity (4 months) & Paternity Leave (12 weeks)
- Flexible vacations days and working hours
- Annual Work/Service Anniversary Leave
- Comprehensive medical & life insurance for you and your dependants
- Volunteering opportunities to make a difference
- Chance to work alongside our incredible global team
- Monthly and quarterly regional and global team-building events
- Communal transport facilities inside Dhaka to and from the office
- Free catered lunch every day
- An agile performance review process that encourages ongoing transparency between managers and direct reports
- Enablement program and soft skill training to support internal career growth and development
At Optimizely, our standardized language is English, and it is crucial to have good English communication skills to be successful in your global role. All our external and cross-location communication is done in US English (en-us), but internally you can speak in whichever native language you most identify with.
Optimizely is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.