Product Development Director oversees and implements product development policies, objectives, and initiatives. Leads research for new products, product enhancements, and product redesign. Being a Product Development Director evaluates the potential and practicality of products in development. Requires a bachelor’s degree. Additionally, Product Development Director demonstrates expertise in a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures. Typically reports to top management. The Product Development Director manages a departmental sub-function within a broader departmental function. Creates functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub-function and develops budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional infrastructure. Deep knowledge of the managed sub-function and solid knowledge of the overall departmental function. To be a Product Development Director typically requires 5+ years of managerial experience.
Director of Product Development Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Director of Product Development to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Travel domestically and internationally when required;
- Collaborates with other business leaders outside of own division or region;
- Oversees development of new applications or analysis and modification logic in existing applications or solutions;
- Interacts with other groups like product managers, marketing, sales, and users to define application requirements and/or necessary modifications;
- People Development / Management;
- How to build products that are extensible, scalable, and highly available;
- Drives and Delivers on results, business defined and/or self-initiated;
- Provides organizational leadership to managers, supervisors and/or professional technical staff;
- Manage cross functional project teams utilized for major product initiatives;
- Experience with UI/UX is a plus;
- Drives business results and ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented;
- Recruiting new talent to our team and effectively retaining existing talent;
- Fostering an environment in which individuals and teams are empowered and remain excited, motivated, and satisfied;
- Participating in and contributing to technical strategic planning, refinement, and execution;
- Communicating and reinforcing business objectives and priorities to the engineering team.
Requirements:
- 7+ years’ product development/design experience;
- Job id: 30940334;
- Advanced expertise in PowerPoint and advanced excel is required;
- Participating in and contributing to technical strategic planning, refinement, and execution;
- LOCATION United States – Minnesota – Plymouth;
- Knowledge of Design Controls and experience with FDA QSR 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485;
- MBA or degree in Business or Marketing;
- Communicating and reinforcing business objectives and priorities to the engineering team;
- Familiarity with basic mathematical and statistical concepts and metrics;
- Experience in project budgeting and resource management;
- Recruiting new talent to our team and effectively retaining existing talent;
- Authorized to work in the US;
- Experience in the design and development of transvenous catheters and/or ablation devices;
- BS Degree in business, engineering, economics, finance or equivalent • Master’s degree a plus;
- Demonstrated project and / or team management experience.