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Remote Director of Product jobs

13 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Directors of product lead a group of product managers and own the strategy and roadmap for a product line or a major area of a product. They decide which problems the teams will work on and why, make the case for investment to executives, and are accountable for the outcomes of what ships, without writing specifications for every feature themselves.

About the Director of Product role

What the work looks like

  • Set the product area's strategy and multi-quarter roadmap and defend its priorities to executives.
  • Hire, coach and review product managers, and assign them to teams and problem areas.
  • Review product requirement documents and research findings and push back where the reasoning is weak.
  • Negotiate priorities, scope and staffing with the directors of engineering and design.
  • Report on product metrics, launches and customer feedback to leadership and the go-to-market teams.

What employers ask for

  • Years of product management with shipped products
  • Experience managing product managers
  • Product strategy and roadmap planning
  • Fluency with product analytics and experimentation
  • Executive communication and written narratives
  • Customer research and discovery practice

Doing this job remotely

The job is mostly meetings, documents and decisions, which can be done remotely but rely on strong written communication and a deliberate meeting cadence. Directors usually need wide time-zone overlap with engineering, design and executives. Periodic travel for planning sessions, leadership offsites and customer visits is common.

Where it comes from and where it leads

Directors of product are typically promoted from senior or group product manager after leading a significant product area. The next roles are vice president of product and chief product officer, and some move into general management or found companies.