Director, Product - Strategic Projects

Arctic Wolf, with its unicorn valuation, is the leader in security operations in an exciting and fast-growing industry—cybersecurity. We have won countless awards for our excellence in security operations and remain dedicated to providing an industry-leading customer and employee experience.

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Director, Product - Strategic Projects & Certifications to be a part of making this happen.

About the Role

This is a multi-faceted product leadership role combining strategic business initiatives with product compliance and certifications. This includes initiatives such as orchestrating M & A activity, internationalization strategy of products to more ephemeral projects to drive process improvements and other cross-functional plans. This role does not involve traditional customer-facing, revenue driving products, but will involve deep exposure to different product lines. The projects under this leader are both technical and commercial in nature, requiring expert-level proficiency working on highly detailed and complex projects. This is a high visibility position expected to present to senior company leadership, build and lead cross-functional teams. 

Responsibilities

• Conduct internal and external research in a consultative fashion: inclusive of customer requirements, market requirements, competitive research, internal research and analysis to inform strategic direction and priorities. 

• You will lead and drive the Product compliance certifications vision, strategy & roadmap, plus be expected to closely collaborate with C-Level executives and their respective cross functional teams throughout the development and delivery lifecycle of compliance-framework focused solutions.  

• Lead the development and execution of regulatory compliance product strategy, ensuring alignment with key stakeholders, business goals and customer needs. 

• Define and prioritize product requirements based on regulatory requirements, market trends, and customer feedback. 

• Define new products and services in partnership with product managers. 

• Act as a project/program delivery champion: represent the business and value of the initiatives throughout the definition and delivery process, problem solve obstacles to delivery, build a sense of team and set the urgency/energy levels where appropriate, model and foster company values across delivery teams and ensure overall team and project success.  This will include working in harmony with senior product, engineering, marketing and GTM leaders. 

• Readily identify and resolve conflicts cross functionally to ensure alignment of priorities and delivery to leadership expectations. 

• Required to brief senior product executives on the state of their respective initiatives.  Will be present for major acquisition decision meetings and discussions with senior leadership. 

Who You Are

• Dedicated to managing and meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; seeks first-hand customer information and uses it to inform feature definition and development; brings a cohesive perspective of the customers to their work; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect. 

• Proven track record of successfully bringing compliance-focused products to market. 

• Strong understanding of compliance standards and frameworks, such NIST