Product Director

Atlas Air; Erlanger (KY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Employee assistance program

Generous paid time off

401K contributions

Job summary

Atlas Air in Erlanger is seeking a Product Director to lead the strategy and roadmap for their products. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in product management and proven skills in stakeholder management.

This role involves owning product performance and implementing success metrics while ensuring high-quality outcomes aligned with the company's objectives. Frequent domestic and some international travel is required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience with full accountability.
• 15+ years of experience as a business analyst, project manager or product manager.
• 5+ years experience in an agile delivery culture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a clear product strategy and roadmap.
• Work with stakeholders to develop a prioritized backlog.
• Accountable for a secure, reliable and performant product.

Skills

Excellent Oral/Written communication skills

Workshop facilitation in complex environments

Flexibility to adapt to fast paced environments

Critical thinking skills

Self-motivated

Team player

Building high performing team culture

Coaching junior team members

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

TRAX or similar aviation maintenance systems

ERPs or Enterprise Platforms

Job description

Join Atlas Air Worldwide. Move the World with Us!

At Atlas Air Worldwide, we're not just an airline, we're a global engine powering cargo, passenger, and leasing operations across more than 70 countries. As a leader in outsourced aviation logistics, we're built on a foundation of safety, service excellence, integrity, innovation, teamwork, and responsibility. With over 30 years of history, a modern all-Boeing fleet, and nearly 5,000 teammates collaborating across operations, technical, and corporate functions, we're driven by purpose.

If you're ready to grow, innovate, and help us deliver excellence every single day, you belong here.

Position Summary

The Product Director determines and oversees delivery of the strategy and roadmap for their products to achieve customer and end-user outcomes, as well as Atlas's business and financial objectives. The product director is effectively the "voice of the customer/end-user in the product." They effectively integrate, motivate and build relationships with and between team members, key stakeholders, customers, executives, and other individuals or organizations involved with the end-to-end product life cycle.

Values and Behavioral Standards

To ensure the effective communication and application of company values and behavioral standards, as stated in our company "Code of Conduct" policy, and to respond appropriately in the event of any known departure.

Major Job Accountabilities

• Develop and implement a clear, aligned product strategy and roadmap
• Work with stakeholders to develop a prioritised backlog based on business value
• Appropriately prioritise maintenance and tech debt activities with new features to ensure a sustainable product
• Accountable for a secure, reliable and performant product that delivers value for Atlas
• Develop and implement product success metrics and manage team to them
• Senior stakeholder management including customers and vendors
• Financially literate and can manage a P&L if required
• Support Application Development Chapter Lead in implementing an engineering culture
• Support Portfolio Senior Director in implementing an adaptive human centric system of work
• Accountable for a complex cross functional product/service ecosystem

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of product management experience with 3+ years with full accountability of a complex enterprise level programme, portfolio or product
• 15+ years of experience as a business analyst, project manager, scrum master or product manager
• 5+ years experience in an agile delivery culture
• Experience with TRAX or similar aviation maintenance and engineering systems (MRO platforms) strongly preferred
• Experience managing ERPs or Enterprise Platforms as a product an advantage
• Experience delivering applications within an automated CI/CD SDLC
• Airline or logistics experience an advantage but not essential

Skills

• Experienced influencer and story teller with excellent Oral/Written communication skills
• Highly skilled Workshop facilitation in highly complex and political enterprise level environments
• Flexibility to adapt to a fast paced work environment
• Critical thinking skills
• Self-motivated
• Team player
• Able to build a high performing team culture
• Able to coach more junior team members and senior stakeholders

Special demands

• The role will require frequent (~monthly) domestic travel and occasional (annually) international travel

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to afford equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, place of birth, age, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

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Competitive compensation will be offered based on a variety of factors, including a candidate's experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal equity and other factors. In addition, a range of benefits to include medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, as well as generous paid time off, and 401K contributions are offered as a part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range: $155,000 - $218,000 USD

At Atlas Air Worldwide, we believe in the power of people, the promise of innovation, and the responsibility we hold to each other, to our customers, and to the planet. Join us and be part of a team that lifts more than cargo; we lift ambition.