Director, Product

About us: At EvolutionIQ, our mission is to improve the lives of injured and disabled workers and enable them to return to the workforce, saving billions of dollars in avoidable costs and lost productivity to the US and global economies. We’ve grown over 5X in headcount and ~10x in revenue since 2021, all in service of using the latest AI technologies to transform the insurance industry and simplify complex claims handling workflows. We’ve also been named as one of Inc.’s top places to work for 3 years in a row!

About the role:  The product team at EvolutionIQ is highly cross functional and interdisciplinary. As a Director, Product, you’ll work across the full spectrum of the business as the the key commercial and innovation leader for a major area of the EIQ product portfolio. While no two days are the same, on any given day you can expect to:

• Own the strategic roadmap and bottom line success of a meaningful, substantial area of the business
• Build, deploy, and scale products that employ cutting-edge AI to guide and augment human decision making in disability claims management (A $70B+ global industry)
• Coach, mentor, and develop senior and group-level PMs, either within your direct reporting line or simply within the broader product management org
• Collaborate with and empower our high performing customer success and change management teams, who ensure the success of our customers and our products via trainings, user office hours, and frequent strategic consultations with senior leadership at Fortune 1000 insurance carriers
• Drive commercial success by working closely with our sales, product marketing, and broader revenue organization new and existing product lines
• Innovate and experiment at high velocity, alongside an extraordinarily talented set of colleagues and backed by a sophisticated proprietary AI platform
• Lead by example and build alignment and consensus amongst stakeholders, creating systems and processes that enable excellence for product and cross-functional teams

About You: An analytical, commercially-oriented product director or general manager with at least seven (7) plus years working in a high production SaaS environment. You’re a leader who loves interacting with both internal and external stakeholders to drive both commercial and innovation success, and you’re looking for a role where you can be highly impactful on business outcomes from day one. Ambiguity isn’t a challenge, but rather a chance for you to define and narrow a problem space independently. You’re supercharged by having interesting, unsolved problems continually present themselves, and leading teams to excellence by example.  

What You’ll Achieve with Us:

• Champion new and established product lines: Manage new and existing product modules throughout their lifecycle, from ideation and inception to supporting established product lines
• Build and own the roadmap for outcome-driven decision guidance systems: Collaborate daily with a world-class team of software engineers, data scientists, product designers, and AI/ML experts in delivering Claims Guidance to EvolutionIQ’s enthusiastic customer base 
• Lead and manage a team of product managers:  Lead and develop a team of product managers to own the “whole product,” from R&D/innovation work to shipping and measuring results to developing and executing a wingging go to market strategy. 
• Develop and lead a winning go to market motion: Drive commercial success alongside product marketing, sales, and our broader revenue organization as we deliver outstanding products to market
• Solve complex problems early and often: Proactively identify and collaborate cross-functionally resolve potential issues or roadblocks that could hinder EvolutionIQ’s ability to deliver on its broader mission
• Delight our customers daily: Deliver winning, market-tested Claims Guidance products to many of the largest and most complex insurance organizations in the world

Key Competencies

• Cross functional communication and leadership: You thrive on working effectively with engineering, sales, customer success, and a range of partners across the organization at every stage of the product development lifecycle, setting a high bar for excellence in the work being delivered.
• Deep understanding of developing primarily AI/ML based features and systems: You have experience with, and a keen opinion on, how AI-first products present a unique set of opportunities and challenges at scale, and you’ve worked effectively to bri