Senior Director of Product Management — AI-Driven Healthcare

We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture

Ascend Learning, a leading healthcare and learning technology company, is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data-driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning. From testing to certification, Ascend Learning products are used by physicians, emergency medical professionals, nurses, allied health professionals, certified personal trainers, financial advisors, skilled trades professionals and insurance brokers.

Headquartered in Burlington, MA, with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America’s 2025 Greatest Workplaces as well as America’s Best Places to work for Mental Well-Being for 2025.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

We are hiring a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the strategy, team, and outcomes for a portfolio of Allied Health product lines. You'll operate at the intersection of healthcare education, technology, commercial strategy, and people leadership. You're as comfortable negotiating a contract redline with Legal as you are running a discovery sprint or presenting a growth thesis to the executive team.

The best candidate for this role will have sharp product instincts earned as a practitioner, a proven ability to develop that same instinct in others, and a demonstrated record of identifying new product bets and developing them into measurable commercial wins. You've scaled a multi-product portfolio at a growth-stage company, and you know how to bring that same entrepreneurial edge into an organization built for scale without losing the speed or conviction that got you here.

You multiply your impact through the product managers you develop, not just through the decisions you make yourself. When you succeed in this role, you'll make a measurable impact on allied health workforce readiness, student completion rates, portfolio revenue through the strength of the team and products you build.

We operate with high transparency, high ownership, and a strong preference for written communication and asynchronous alignment. We are actively building a more product-led culture and want product leaders who will help shape — not just adapt to — that culture.

WHERE YOU’LL WORK

This position will have the flexibility to work remotely within the United States.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

Strategy. Product vision, strategy, and portfolio roadmap.

• Define and own the multi-year product vision and annual strategy across the Allied Health product lines grounded in market dynamics, customer insight, and Ascend's strategic priorities.
• Identify and prioritize new growth vectors for the portfolio, new products, adjacent markets, partnerships, or business models.
• Treat pricing, packaging, and positioning as strategic levers, not fixed constraints to unlock adoption, retention, or revenue growth.
• Set a compelling narrative for the portfolio that makes the “why” clear and inspires aligned action across teams.
• Support unified portfolio-level prioritization. Make hard trade-off calls across multiple product areas, with clear reasoning that's visible to your team and to leadership.
• Build a repeatable discipline for testing new growth bets by piloting, measuring, and scaling ideas. Balance near-term commercial pressure with platform investment and long-term strategic bets, and defend that balance credibly in front of senior stakeholders.

Team Leadership. Build and develop the product management bench.

• Hire, coach, and manage teams across multiple brands including product managers, content developers and product engineers holding a high bar for both product…