Head, Digital Product Management & Strategy

Avantor; Radnor (Delaware County); On-site; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness programs

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase program

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Avantor is seeking a Senior Director, Digital Product Management to shape how product management operates across the digital organization, translating strategy into multi-year direction and aligning investment and delivery priorities.

You will lead Directors of Product Management and cross-functional partners to build a customer-centered, data-driven practice, extending into UX/Design and AI-enabled ways of working.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• 12-15+ years of progressive product management experience, including substantial experience leading product leaders and managing managers or directors.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional digital initiatives and influencing senior executives.
• Experience designing job architectures, leveling frameworks, and career paths for a professional discipline preferred, in partnership with HR.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the vision, philosophy, and operating model for the Product Management practice, including how digital products are discovered, prioritized, delivered, and measured.
• Set and steward product standards, methodologies, governance, and tooling; improve consistency and quality across teams as the organization scales.
• Translate enterprise and digital strategy into a multi-year direction for the product discipline, aligning practice investment, organizational capacity, and priorities to business needs.
• Represent product management at the executive level and partner with Engineering, Data, Commercial, and business leaders to shape digital strategy, portfolio investment, and roadmaps.
• Lead the discipline's contribution to measurable commercial, customer, and operational outcomes; establish performance measures and communicate trade-offs to executive leadership.
• Own the talent and capability architecture for product management, including job families, leveling frameworks, career paths, hiring standards, talent calibration, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Lead and develop Directors of Product Management and, as scope expands, UX / Design leaders; build a strong leadership bench and set clear cultural, performance, and ethical expectations.
• Extend practice leadership across UX / Design and cross-functional delivery to enable an integrated, end-to-end approach to digital product development.
• Advance product and UX maturity by benchmarking against industry practices, implementing modern operating models, including AI-enabled ways of working, and leading the organizational change required for adoption.
• Champion customer-centricity, outcome orientation, and data-informed decision-making across the discipline.

Skills

Product leadership

Cross-functional

Executive influence

Strategy & governance

UX / Design collaboration

AI-enabled transformation

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

Avantor is seeking a Senior Director, Digital Product Management to shape how product management operates across the digital organization, translating strategy into multi-year direction and aligning investment and delivery priorities.

You will lead Directors of Product Management and cross-functional partners to build a customer-centered, data-driven practice, extending into UX/Design and AI-enabled ways of working.