Director of Product Management

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FULL TIME Senior Management Ann Arbor, MI, US

16 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

People come to work for Deque because of what we do: enable businesses and organizations to make their sites and apps accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. The personal fulfillment employees feel here is unparalleled. In addition to the altruistic nature of our jobs, the organizational structure is extremely flat and welcoming. Women-owned and operated, Deque CEO Preety Kumar is internationally revered for her down-to-earth personality and work ethic.

Deque's core values are central to our culture of customer satisfaction. Do you share them?

At Deque, you’ll work with the best and brightest minds in the industry, sharing best practices, tackling new issues and uncovering new approaches. Accessibility Consultants at Deque also love their jobs because of the support systems in place.

Deque experts regularly contribute to W3C Accessibility Working Groups and collectively hold more CPACC, WAS, & CPWA certifications issued by the IAAP than any accessibility testing company in the world.

The Director of Product Management sets product strategy and vision, drives continuous discovery, and ensures the delivery team is focused on the highest-value work aligned to customer needs, company strategy, and long-term product direction.

This role serves as the connective point between customers, Product Development, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and leadership — and is a key voice in shaping how Deque's product organization operates and grows. The ideal candidate combines strong customer empathy, strategic thinking, commercial awareness, and execution discipline in a fast-paced B2B SaaS environment, and is energized by helping other PMs grow.

This role is a peer of other director, and senior director positions, leads product managers and product owners, and is expected to operate as a leader of leaders within a leadership team: running some department and cross-company forums, forming strong relationships with peers across the organization and with senior executives, and evaluating how product resources are deployed across the portfolio.

• Own product strategy and vision, ensuring it aligns with company strategy and the competitive landscape.
• Continuously engage with customers, users, Sales, Support, and Customer Success to be the embodiment of the product's target market for the rest of the development team.
• Own and prioritize the product roadmap, ensuring teams focus on the highest-impact work aligned with the product vision and company strategy.
• Define and communicate product requirements, priorities, business outcomes, and release objectives.
• Act as the voice of the customer and target market for Product Development and cross-functional teams.
• Work closely with Engineering Managers to ensure teams iterate quickly to make the product more competitive and valuable.
• Partner closely with Product Development throughout discovery, validation, delivery, and iteration cycles.
• Coach and mentor other Product Managers, sharing frameworks and best practices that raise the bar across the product team.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to support positioning, enablement, launches, and strategic customer engagements.
• Monitor customer feedback, market trends, competitive positioning, and product performance to inform prioritization and strategy.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap updates, and priorities effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, including company leadership.
• Help to set product management practices, standards, and processes at Deque, and define the process for effective coordination and execution across teams and departments. Help to define the overall product strategy and ensure alignment across the full product portfolio, not only the assigned area.
• Evaluate and prioritize proposed features and products using a robust framework spanning customer needs, strategic impact, sales needs, market alternatives, and impact on the platform; assist more junior product managers with their roadmaps.
• Build organizational product competence: map, unify, and standardize product…