Director, Product Management

Vizient, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. in Chicago is hiring a Senior Product Manager to define and lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for enterprise products and platform capabilities.

You will translate business goals into measurable outcomes and partner with engineering, design, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-value products. You will lead Voice of Customer initiatives, market research, and competitive analysis to identify opportunities and validate product direction.

Qualifications

• Define and lead product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and execution priorities for a portfolio of enterprise products.
• Develop multi-year product strategies aligned with client needs, market opportunities, and organizational priorities.
• Translate business strategies into measurable product outcomes through defined goals, success metrics, and roadmaps.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Design, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-quality products.
• Lead Voice of Customer initiatives, client discovery, market research, and competitive analysis to identify opportunities.
• Prioritize product investments and develop business cases using client insights, market potential, business value, and technical considerations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Client Success, Pricing, Marketing, and Strategy teams to advance commercialization, go-to-market planning, and product adoption.
• Establish and monitor product KPIs and business outcomes to evaluate success, optimize performance, and guide investment decisions.
• Mentor Product Managers, influence executive leadership, and advance product management practices across the organization.
• Leverage AI-enabled practices and emerging technologies across product discovery, research, planning, prioritization, and experimentation to improve product outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and execution priorities for a portfolio of enterprise products.
• Develop multi-year product strategies aligned with client needs, market opportunities, and organizational priorities.
• Translate business strategies into measurable product outcomes through defined goals, success metrics, and roadmaps.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Design, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-quality products that create client and business value.
• Lead Voice of Customer initiatives, client discovery, market research, and competitive analysis to identify opportunities and validate product direction.
• Prioritize product investments and develop business cases using client insights, market potential, business value, and technical considerations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Client Success, Pricing, Marketing, and Strategy teams to advance commercialization, go-to-market planning, and product adoption.
• Establish and monitor product KPIs and business outcomes to evaluate success, optimize performance, and guide investment decisions.
• Mentor Product Managers, influence executive leadership, and advance product management practices across the organization.
• Leverage AI-enabled practices and emerging technologies across product discovery, research, planning, prioritization, and experimentation to improve product outcomes.

Job description

When you're the best, we're the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Required Responsibilities

• Define and lead product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and execution priorities for a portfolio of enterprise products and platform capabilities.
• Develop multi-year product strategies aligned with client needs, market opportunities, and organizational priorities.
• Translate business strategies into measurable product outcomes through defined goals, success metrics, and outcome-driven roadmaps.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Design, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-quality products that create client and business value.
• Lead Voice of Customer initiatives, client discovery, market research, and competitive analysis to identify opportunities and validate product direction.
• Prioritize product investments and develop business cases using client insights, market potential, business value, and technical considerations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Client Success, Pricing, Marketing, and Strategy teams to advance commercialization, go-to-market planning, and product adoption.
• Establish and monitor product KPIs and business outcomes to evaluate success, optimize performance, and guide investment decisions.

Preferred Responsibilities

• Mentor Product Managers, influence executive leadership, and advance product management practices across the organization.
• Leverage AI-enabled practices and emerging technologies across product discovery, research, planning, prioritization, and experimentation to improve product outcomes.

Estimated Hiring Range

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.