(Platform Core) Director, Software Technical Product Management
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Insight Global is seeking a Director of Software Technical Product Management to lead strategy for a core software platform supporting data management, workflow execution, interactive analysis, and application experiences. The director will manage 4–6 Product Managers and partner across functions to build scalable capabilities used by multiple applications. The role also leads platform roadmaps, go-to-market efforts, and strategic customer conversations.
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Job Description
We are seeking a Director of Software Technical Product Management to lead product strategy for a core software platform supporting data management, workflow execution, interactive analysis, and application experiences.
This leader will manage a team of 4–6 Product Managers and partner closely with Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to build scalable platform capabilities used across multiple software applications.
Key Responsibilities Own the product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for core platform capabilities. Lead products supporting data storage and movement, workflow/pipeline execution, sample and project management, notebooks, APIs, and platform UX. Improve time-to-first-analysis, workflow reliability, data reliability, and platform adoption. Partner with Engineering on architecture, performance, reliability, scalability, and technical debt. Define product requirements for cloud and on-prem platform capabilities. Lead go-to-market strategy, product positioning, sales enablement, demos, and launches for major platform capabilities. Support strategic customer conversations related to platform architecture, roadmap, and reliability. Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4–6 technical Product Managers. Partner across product teams to ensure platform investments support broader portfolio goals.
Skills and Requirements
15+ years of progressive product management experience within scientific, data, analytics, or developer-facing platforms. 7+ years of people management experience. 2+ years owning platform capabilities used by multiple applications, such as: Data storage/services Workflow or pipeline execution Notebooks/interactive compute APIs Strong technical understanding with the ability to discuss software development, architecture, APIs, and operational tradeoffs with Engineering. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience. Experience with enterprise SaaS, data, scientific, life sciences, health tech, genomics, or regulated software platforms. Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. Familiarity with cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and customer-cloud deployment models. Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Experience with design controls or ISO 13485 is a plus. Strong cross-functional leadership across Engineering, UX/Design, Quality, Sales, and Marketing.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 10,560 open Product Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$177–264K/yr1,449 salary ranges
- California median$38–59/hr30 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,717 open Product Management jobs in California and 10,560 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Product Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 8,897 postings).
- Education
- 3,213 of the 10,560 open Product Management jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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