Director of Product Management | Data Platform | Reston, VA

About Ellucian Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education partnering with more than 2800 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucians AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty, and staff.

Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement.

Ellucians innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

About the Opportunity Ellucian is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the evolution of our data platform and intelligence capabilities in support of higher education institutions. This leader will define and operationalize Ellucians enterprise data strategy, reporting frameworks, advanced analytics, and applied AI with a focus on improving institutional effectiveness and student outcomes.

The ideal candidate is strategic, technically fluent, and execution-oriented. This leader will manage a team responsible for data platform capabilities, reporting, analytics, and the platform supporting AI-driven innovation. In this senior leadership role, you will define the overarching product vision, guide product strategy and execution across multiple products, and mentor other product managers to achieve outstanding results.

Where You Will Make an Impact

• Strategic Leadership: Define and own the enterprise data and reporting strategy.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and mentor a group of product managers, fostering their professional growth and empowering them to think strategically and execute efficiently. Build a collaborative, innovative culture that inspires high performance across the team.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle for your portfolio, ensuring that products meet market needs, deliver customer value, and achieve business objectives. Lead teams in delivering products that enhance user experiences and drive measurable outcomes.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for product success and ensure that teams have the tools and data to track performance. Use data-driven insights to continuously optimize products and improve customer outcomes.
• Product Strategy & Prioritization: Collaborate with executive leadership to align product initiatives with the companys long-term strategic goals. Make data-informed decisions about product priorities and manage trade-offs to ensure that the portfolio delivers the highest business value.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify and mitigate risks and roadblocks across your product portfolio. Guide teams in developing solutions to ensure timely, high-quality product delivery that meets customer needs and expectations.

What You Will Bring

• Experience: 7 years of experience in Product Management, including 3 years leading product managers. Extensive experience in SaaS, edtech, or technology industries is highly preferred.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Proven experience leading and mentoring a team of product managers. Ability to provide guidance, support, and leadership to cultivate team growth and drive high-impact product outcomes.
• Strategic Thinking: Expertise in shaping and executing product vision and strategy, balancing short-term priorities with long-term goals. Demonstrated ability to make high-level strategic decisions that support company growth and market leadership.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with a history of working effectively across teams and aligning stakeholders around a common product vision, goals, and strategies.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making. Ability to define, track, and optimize key metrics and KPIs to ensure product success.
• Product Lifecycle & Portfolio Management: Extensive experience managing a portfolio of products, overseeing the full lifecycle from ideation to delivery and iteration. Comfort with prioritizing initiatives and making tough trade-offs to maximize business impact.
• Agile Methodologies: Expertise in agile product management methodologies with experience leading agile teams to deliver products iteratively and efficiently.
• Problem-Solving & Innovation: Ability to identify complex challenges and provide innovative solutions that improve customer outcomes, drive business performance, and foster continuous product improvement.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate product strategies and outcomes clearly and effectively to senior leadership and stakeholders at all levels.
• Passion for Education Technology: A deep passion for transforming the higher education sector with innovative technology solutions that positively impact students, educators, and institutions.

What Makes Ellucian Life

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Flexible time off
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial, or learning interests
• 401k with match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
• Parental Leave
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Telemedicine
• Wellness
• Headspace Care (mental health)
• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
• RethinkCare & Wellthy - caregiver support
• Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We foster a learning culture with:
• Education Assistance Program
• Professional development opportunities

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