Director Product Development

Gainwell Technologies; Texas; On-site; USD 137,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) employer match

Health benefits

Educational assistance

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

Gainwell Technologies is seeking a Director of Product Development to shape the strategy and execution of multiple global products. You will lead cross‑functional teams across engineering, product, and quality to deliver high-impact solutions.

You will drive the product roadmap, manage budgets, and partner with senior executives to ensure alignment with business goals. This remote role includes travel and a focus on data governance and quality practices.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in CS, IS, or related field.
• 15+ years in technical product design and bringing products to market.
• 10+ years in supervisory or management roles.
• Experience with the product development lifecycle of varying complexity.
• Experience with enterprise products, services, and strategies.

Responsibilities

• Creates strategic plan and vision; motivates others to ensure success of goals.
• Defines and launches new products and features; drives roadmap adoption.
• Collaborates with senior leadership; leads development and project plans and budgets.
• Develops strategic relationships with client decision makers.
• Evaluates product development processes; supports high development standards and quality.
• Defines data governance framework to ensure data integrity.
• Defines best practices and tooling to achieve results.
• Establishes goals, methods, and roles; coordinates cross-functional teams.

Skills

Product development leadership

Senior management experience

Product lifecycle expertise

Enterprise product experience

Technical architecture knowledge

Education

Master's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field

Job description

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Director Product Development

Date: Oct 13, 2026

Location:

Any city, TX, US, 99999

Work Mode: Virtual (Exception only)

Great companies need great teams to propel their operations. Join the group that solves business challenges and enhances the way we work and grow. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values your contributions and puts a premium on work flexibility, learning, and career development.

Summary

Defines, creates and conveys the product development strategy and drives the design, testing and execution plan of multiple, innovative products and services. Drives large, global product development projects with significant customer-facing and financial impact. Directs the research of current and new technologies to initiate/develop and/or to revise improve existing products.

Your role in our mission

• Creates the strategic plan and conveys the vision, manages change and motivates others to ensure the success of the company goals; applies deep and broad knowledge and understanding of industry and technology advances and predicts the business impacts of engineering decisions across multiple disciplines.
• Defines and launches new products and features designed to take advantage of company's platform and delivery capabilities. Collaborates and works closely with project management, development, and quality leaders on the development and implementation of the product roadmap and plans that drive product adoption.
• Collaborates with internal product and other senior technical leadership and articulates the company's product vision, setting the course for continued development and growth. Creates and leads execution of development and project plans, resource allocation and budget and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. Identifies and resolves strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial and technical goals.
• Develops strategic business relationships with key client decision makers. Has frequent and direct contact with these executives in order to ensure engagement with clients at strategic and highest levels.
• Evaluates and collaborates with senior management on product development processes including sound engineering design process and quality practices, software estimation, coding standards, technical documentation standards, quality assurance processes, build, and configuration management; supports a culture that values high development standards and product quality.
• Defines and stewards effective data governance framework and process to ensure data compliance, integrity and quality.
• Defines and leverages industry best practices, tools and technologies to achieve results.
• Establishes and communicates goals and objectives, defines methodologies, tasks and activities and clearly describes roles and responsibilities for personnel. Communicates broadly to ensure overall coordination for cross-functional teams.

What we're looking for

• Master's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field preferred
• Fifteen or more years of experience with technical product design, configuration, integration, and/or delivering products to market
• Ten or more years in a supervisory or management capacity included
• Experience with the product development life cycle at all levels of complexity
• Experience working with client enterprise products, services, and strategies, technical products, vendors, families of technologies and product configurations
• Experience working with technology architecture, mainframes, scheduling software and other related technologies
• Experience working with business environment, business industry and competitor products and services

What you should expect in this role

• This is a remote role with some annual travel possible up to 10-15%.

The deadline to submit applications for this posting is October 25, 2026.

The pay range for this position is$137,100.00-$195,800.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits , and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.

Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Gainwell Technologies defines “wages” and “wage rates” to include “all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.