Director of Product Strategy
SkyWater has recently been retained by a well established, nationally recognized brand headquartered in the Twin Cities is hiring a Director of Product Strategy to lead its product management function. This hire will help stabilize and build a group while continuing to run the company’s highest-investment, most customer-visible product.
What makes this worth a move: This is a hands-on strategic seat at a company with real scale and brand recognition, not a title-only director role. You’d be shaping product direction for a business with thousands of locations, working directly with senior leadership, and inheriting a team you get to help rebuild in your own image. Hybrid work, Twin Cities based, moderate travel. Base salary in the 180 to 200K range plus bonus.
To apply or learn more, reach out confidentially to Zac Kallas at SkyWater Search Partners.
Responsibilities
- Own the customer-facing mobile app, the company's most heavily invested and most closely watched product, used directly by end customers and central to how the brand competes.
- Lead corporate technology, including the operational CRM system that the business runs on day to day.
- Direct a newer AI and automation enablement function that now sits under this role.
- Manage relationships, including running partner-facing committees and facilitating a committee that includes the CEO and senior leadership team.
- Mentor and mature product management practices across a small, high-impact team, and advise the broader project management organization on product-first thinking.
- Set and execute product strategy and roadmap for the department, balancing hands-on ownership of the flagship product with department-level planning.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Two to ten years of direct, hands-on people management experience, not purely strategic or advisory leadership.
- A track record owning a significant, customer-facing digital product from strategy through execution.
- Strong executive presence, comfortable presenting to senior leadership and building trust with external, non-technical stakeholders.
- The ability to manage a high volume of competing priorities without losing organization or focus.
- Mobile app product experience is a plus, not required.
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