Senior Director, Political Product & Strategy

IQM Corporation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Employer-Paid Healthcare

401(k) match

Equity participation

Total well-being resources

Job summary

IQM is seeking an Associate Director of Product Management to own the political product strategy and roadmap, shaping year-round product lines for public affairs, advocacy, and issue campaigns. You’ll collaborate with public affairs firms, agencies, and IQM sellers to identify market needs and translate them into compelling products.

You will lead a cross‑functional team across North America and India, balancing regulatory compliance, data foundations, and customer outcomes while delivering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience across political or public affairs technology, data, digital media, or product management.
• Direct experience in political, advocacy, public affairs, or government relations ecosystems.
• A builder who has created a product or platform from zero to one, and the outcomes it drove.
• Proven ability to define what needs to be built, set execution plans, and deliver with engineering teams across locations.
• Comfortable in front of customers and able to lead discovery conversations with public affairs firms or campaigns.
• Experience in a regulated, deadline-driven environment where errors carry real consequences.
• Analytical, organized, and able to make sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Clear written and verbal communicator across technical, commercial, and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and build IQM’s next political product lines for public affairs, advocacy, issue campaigns, and government relations.
• Own the vision, multi-year strategy, and roadmap for IQM’s political portfolio, balancing new lines with election-cycle products.
• Run structured discovery with public affairs firms, advocacy organizations, trade associations, political agencies, media buyers, and IQM’s sellers.
• Shape the data foundation for issue and influence campaigns: voter, legislative, issue, stakeholder, and geographic data.
• Turn customer and market problems into clear requirements, use cases, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.
• Build political advertising rules, disclosure requirements, lobbying and issue-advocacy considerations, and state-specific regulations into product design.
• Lead products from discovery through release and adoption with distributed teams across North America and India.
• Define success metrics and collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, and Product Marketing to drive revenue.

Skills

Leadership

Public policy

Roadmap ownership

Discovery interviews

Customer engagement

Regulated environment

Communication

Analytical thinking

Tools

SQL

APIs

Analytics tools

Prototyping

Job description

IQM is seeking an Associate Director of Product Management to own the political product strategy and roadmap, shaping year-round product lines for public affairs, advocacy, and issue campaigns. You’ll collaborate with public affairs firms, agencies, and IQM sellers to identify market needs and translate them into compelling products.

You will lead a cross‑functional team across North America and India, balancing regulatory compliance, data foundations, and customer outcomes while delivering