Platform Product Director

Huntington; Columbus, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Huntington is seeking a Platform Product Director to shape and execute the strategy of enterprise technology platforms used by multiple products and teams. You will partner across business, product, and tech units to ensure governance, scale, and optimized delivery.

You will lead a team of platform product managers, drive OKRs at the platform level, and align technology investments with business priorities, including AI capabilities and controls.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MS, or equivalent).
• Experience planning and executing long-term platform strategies with executive communication.

Responsibilities

• Establish and communicate long-term vision, goals, and multi-quarter roadmaps for shared technology platforms.
• Partner with engineering, security, data, operations, and product teams to set direction and reduce integration friction.
• Build and maintain a clear roadmap, prioritize features by business impact, and manage trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality.
• Ensure platforms comply with security, privacy, regulatory requirements, and architecture standards.
• Lead platform product managers, coach teams, and drive adoption, performance, and cost-efficiency metrics.
• Define and track adoption, reliability, and cost efficiency; oversee APIs, developer experience, and governance.

Skills

Strategy leadership

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Platform governance

AI capabilities integration

Education

Advanced degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

O365

Job description

Description Role Summary

The Platform Product Director is responsible for shaping and executing the strategy of Huntington enterprise technology platforms in order to enable multiple products and teams to build, deploy, and operate software. This leader will partner across enterprise business, product, and technology teams to ensure platforms are structured, governed, and optimized for growth, efficiency and consistent execution.

Key Responsibilities

Establish and communicate the long-term vision, goals, and multi-quarter roadmap for the assigned shared technology platforms, aligning enterprise objectives and product team needs. Partner with engineering, security, data, operations, and product teams to set direction, resolve dependencies, and reduce integration friction. Build and maintain a clear roadmap, prioritize features based on business impact, reliability, and developer experience, and manage trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality. Ensure the platforms are compliant with security, privacy and regulatory requirements, as well as enterprise architecture standards. Build, coach, and lead a team of platform product managers, colleagues and cross-functional contributors, fostering innovation and continuous improvement. Build and scale leadership capability across managers and teams. Drive development of OKRs at the platform level, execute against those OKRs, measure adoption, performance and cost efficiency. Own platform governance for APIs, developer experience, standards, and compliance, ensuring consistency and adoption across assigned platforms. Engage with internal and external stakeholders to align priorities, resolve conflicts, communicate priority changes and drive buy-in for platform initiatives. Define and track platform adoption, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency metrics to measure success. Integrate enterprise goals into platform strategy around GenAI and Agent usage, model training, inference optimization, Model Context Protocols (MCP), and AI controls, if applicable to role. Perform other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MS, or equivalent)

Experience planning and executing long-term platform strategies, as well as leading at scale through executive communication, defining product direction, embedding AI capabilities and driving alignment across large, complex stakeholder groups.

Demonstrated success working across Technology and business product organizations, influencing executive and senior stakeholders and driving alignment.

Demonstrated success and expertise in large organizations or multiple technology domains in the delivery of complex, high-quality cross-team solutions.

Deep understanding of APIs, tooling and developer workflows, as well as cloud infrastructure.

Proven expertise and understanding of regulated environments with a deep understanding of regulatory, risk, security, and compliance.

Strong experience managing complex portfolios and organizational priorities; expertise operating in product aligned and agile delivery models.

Demonstrated ability leading and building high performing teams, and fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Strong expertise in governance, vendor management, and cross-functional collaboration, including negotiating outcomes, resolving conflict, and ensuring delivery excellences across internal and external partners.

Strong demonstrated experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and O365.

Proven ability shaping enterprise strategy by aligning technology investments to business priorities, anticipating market shifts, and influencing executive and senior leadership decisions.

Proven ability to translate strategy into practical execution and measurable outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in business, technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

12+ years of experience progressively responsible experience in strategy, transformation, product management, technology, or a related field and 5 years of prior experience managing teams.

Typically seeking 15+ years of experience, as well as 7 years of experience managing team.

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay) Yes

Workplace Type: Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We're combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

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