Director, Product Management

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Position Summary:

NAVEX is on a mission to become the leader in Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) software solutions. NAVEX's Governance, Risk and Compliance Information System creates a cost-effective way to continuously monitor third parties and risk-rank them. NAVEX's TPRM solution facilitates monitoring using external news and analysis across target areas, especially culture, operations, IT, and ESG,and has configurable workflows so that our customers can work with third parties to reduce risk and control outcomes through corrective actions.

As the Director of Product Management for Third Party Risk Management, you will manage fast-paced teams responsible for building and deploying third-party risk management software solutions to new and existing NAVEX customers. Using a data-driven mindset and entrepreneurial approach, you will own the product roadmap for the third-party risk management solution space and focus on understanding customer needs and industry insights in managing vendors in terms of various risk areas, including ESG, InfoSec, BCDR, and others.

You will be responsible for driving innovation and effective solution delivery through our current products and the development of new enhancements and cross-product integrations. You will align with all areas of the company to successfully lead strategic initiatives and deploy successful products. You will drive revenue growth and have the opportunity to scale product usage and impact as part of our overall Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) Information System.

This is a highly cross-functional role, working closely with your Engineering partners, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to align all areas of the company to successfully lead tactical and strategic initiatives.

If you are passionate about creating dynamic products that keep up with the ever-evolving third party risk management space and see software as an essential tool to help customers conduct vendor due diligence, manage their third parties holistically and enable market-based ESG reporting, then this is the opportunity for you.

Note: We practice Scaled Agile software development.

We Offer You:

• An Inspiring Culture. Invested teammates, belonging groups, and a socially determined culture

• Meaningful Work. Innovative products and solutions with real life impact for people and organizations

• Career Growth. Stellar training and an unwavering commitment to your growth and success

• Life Flexibility. Time to care for yourself, your loved ones, and your community

• Industry Leadership. A highly reputable, fast growing and consistently profitable organization

• Real Rewards. Competitive and transparent pay practices, wellbeing programs and benefits with choice

What You Will Do:

• Create a product strategy to lead the TPRM market that aligns with NAVEX's strategic and financial goals

• Gather & analyze quantitative market evidence from customers and prospects, competitors, analysts, and other sources to define and describe the market opportunity we are pursuing

• Partner with Finance and Sales to develop business cases which drive investment

• Be proactive and have a bias for making data-based decisions, be the focal point for the company for the product, to gain the trust of all the stakeholders

• Facilitate continuous dialog and discovery with customers via interviews, win/loss calls, and competitive analysis

• Generate prioritized requirements from all functional stakeholders to address these multidimensional needs across the product lifecycle. In particular, keep in mind the individual product requirements

• Manage and work with the Product Managers of each individual product area to develop the strategy and roadmaps that align with NAVEX's overall goals

• Partner with Marketing to leverage your market insights into sales-enabling tools and other customer-facing artifacts and programs

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or college, preferably with a marketing, general business or technical emphasis; MBA is a plus

• 8 years direct experience in product management for an enterprise software or platform SaaS product

• 2 years' experience leading, developing and managing a team

• Direct experience in Agile software development in a continuous delivery environment

• Knowledge of third-party risk management, due diligence and ESG

• Direct experience leading geographically remote teams

• Experience managing a third-party risk management practice preferred.

• Certification in, or strong working knowledge of the Pragmatic Institute framework is a strong plus

• Exceptional interpersonal and communications skills, with a track record of fostering relationships and aligning teams across multiple departments

• High tolerance for ambiguity, an openness to change and a willingness to take informed risks

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a commitment to collaborate with people across a variety of levels with diverse backgrounds

We believe each member of our team deserves to see a path forward to achieving their career and financial goals.

• Each team member is required to have a career plan in place and reviewed with their manager after six months with our team.

• The minimum starting pay range for this role is $148,000 per annum with 10% MBO.

• Pay progression is based on performance.

Our pay programs are just one element of our commitment to Be the ONE place you want to thrive in life. Check out NAVEX's career page to learn about our innovative people programs designed to create one powerful life experience for YOU!

NAVEX is an equal opportunity employer, including disability/vets.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!