Director, Core Platform Strategy & Growth

Frontdoor Defense; Arlington, Pittsburgh, San Francisco (VA, Allegheny County, CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Air is seeking a Director of Product for the Core Platform, responsible for owning the platform strategy that underpins widespread adoption and deployment efficiency. You will lead product managers, shape data foundations, and drive cross-team collaboration to ensure a coherent, scalable foundation for all missions.

You will collaborate with Engineering, AI, Data, and GTM to translate field needs into platform bets, and travel up to 30% as needed to align on priorities and deployments.

Qualifications

• Own a product line or platform end to end - strategy through delivery - with measurable outcomes such as adoption, revenue, or cost-to-serve.
• Think at portfolio level: trade-offs across teams to keep the platform coherent.
• Fluency in platform and backend concepts (authorization models, data schemas, service contracts, distributed systems).
• Hands-on fluency with AI products and the tradeoffs between deterministic and agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Set platform strategy that drives readiness and the business.
• Shape data foundations and interfaces to enable Readiness Graph insights.
• Define cross-organization collaboration and reusable components across deployments.
• Decide where AI acts vs. where human judgment is required in workflows.
• Partner with Engineering, AI, and Data leadership to align platform architecture with business goals.
• Recruit and grow a team of product managers and raise product quality.

Skills

End-to-end product ownership

Platform and backend systems

AI product fluency

Leadership of product managers

Enterprise software experience

Job description

Air is seeking a Director of Product for the Core Platform, responsible for owning the platform strategy that underpins widespread adoption and deployment efficiency. You will lead product managers, shape data foundations, and drive cross-team collaboration to ensure a coherent, scalable foundation for all missions.

You will collaborate with Engineering, AI, Data, and GTM to translate field needs into platform bets, and travel up to 30% as needed to align on priorities and deployments.