Director, Product

Product Director

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Cadent is looking for a highly technical and detail-oriented Product Director to lead the execution of the data foundation supporting our reporting, analytics, measurement, and business intelligence capabilities.

Working closely with Reporting & Measurement Product Leadership, this role will translate the broader product vision and roadmap into strategic deliverables, detailed requirements, implementation plans, and scalable technical solutions. The Director will serve as the primary subject-matter expert for the data products, models, pipelines, APIs, and shared services that power reporting experiences across Cadent.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical knowledge, strong product execution skills, sound judgment, and exceptional attention to detail. This person will work across Product, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Enterprise Systems & Operations, Analytics, and business teams to bring structure to complex initiatives, evaluate requests for enterprise data, identify dependencies, and ensure solutions align with Cadent's broader data and reporting standards.

• Execute the Reporting & Measurement roadmap and strategic priorities established by Product Leadership.
• Translate product vision and business priorities into detailed requirements, implementation plans, delivery milestones, and technical work streams.
• Serve as the subject-matter expert for the data foundation supporting reporting, measurement, analytics, and business intelligence products.
• Develop a deep understanding of Cadent's data ecosystem, including source systems, data models, pipelines, APIs, dependencies, business logic, and downstream reporting use cases.
• Own the day-to-day product execution for reporting data products, shared services, and platform capabilities.
• Work across Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Enterprise Systems & Operations, Analytics, and Product teams to coordinate delivery and resolve complex technical dependencies.
• Evaluate requests to add new data, metrics, dimensions, integrations, and capabilities to the enterprise data ecosystem.
• Ensure requests are clearly defined and evaluated against business value, data readiness, technical feasibility, scalability, and existing enterprise standards.
• Serve as a voice of reason across competing teams and priorities, helping distinguish enterprise needs from one-time or narrowly focused requests.
• Guide teams toward scalable and reusable solutions while identifying potential downstream impacts, risks, and gaps.
• Drive the standardization of reporting datasets, schemas, metrics, dimensions, identifiers, and business logic.
• Define detailed requirements for data pipelines, APIs, analytical datasets, semantic layers, access controls, publishing processes, and partner integrations.
• Establish clear data contracts, source-of-truth expectations, ownership, and acceptance criteria across upstream and downstream systems.
• Ensure data solutions meet expectations for quality, accuracy, completeness, freshness, security, scalability, observability, and performance.
• Write detailed Product Requirements Documents that clearly communicate business use cases, data requirements, transformation logic, workflows, dependencies, business rules, and success measures.
• Partner with Engineering, Enterprise Systems & Operations, and Technical Leads to develop implementation plans, sequence work, and manage team-level priorities.
• Track execution across multiple technical teams and communicate progress, risks, decisions, dependencies, and delivery timelines to Reporting & Measurement Product Leadership and key stakeholders.
• Lead the product evaluation of production data and reporting issues and coordinate teams through resolution.
• Identify recurring issues and recommend long-term improvements to strengthen the reliability and scalability of the reporting data foundation.
• Partner closely with product owners responsible for reporting…