Director, Product Management

Department: Marketing

Location: US-California-San Jose

Compensation: $226,900 - $312,000 / year

Description

The Director of Product Management is a senior product leader responsible for defining and driving multi-year product strategy while ensuring disciplined execution across our Retainer product offerings. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, delivery, and outcomes — translating long-term vision into actionable roadmaps, measurable results, and market impact.

This leader will partner closely with executive leadership, engineering, commercial, operations, and regional teams to align product investments to business priorities and customer needs. The ideal candidate brings strategic clarity, operational rigor, and hands-on product leadership
, ensuring that bold vision becomes reality through consistent execution excellence. This position will be located in our San Jose office.

• Define and own multi-year product vision and strategy, aligned to corporate objectives, market dynamics, and customer needs
• Lead portfolio-level roadmap development, balancing innovation, technical debt, regulatory requirements, and revenue growth
• Translate strategy into clear, prioritized product initiatives with measurable business outcomes

• Ensure product strategies are operationalized through clear roadmaps, milestones, and delivery plans
• Establish strong product operating rhythms, including planning, prioritization, dependency management, and release governance
• Drive accountability for delivery outcomes across cross-functional teams

• Act as the senior product voice in executive and cross-functional forums
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, Regulatory, and Operations to ensure alignment from concept to launch
• Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership

• Champion deep customer understanding through data, research, and market insights
• Ensure product decisions are grounded in validated customer value and market opportunity
• Guide pricing, packaging, and lifecycle decisions in partnership with commercial teams

• Set product management standards, best practices, and career development paths
• Mentor and develop product leaders, raising overall product management maturity and impact

• Directly manages Senior Managers and/or Managers of Product Management
• Responsible for hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development of product management leaders
• Establishes team structure, capacity planning, and skill development to support long-term strategy

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• 12–15 years of progressive experience in Med Tech or Medical Device, including 7+ years in senior product marketing leadership roles
• Demonstrated success defining and executing multi-year product strategies in complex environments
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in matrixed, global organizations
• Strong experience with product road mapping, and outcome-based delivery
• Exceptional executive communication, influence, and decision-making skills

Pay Transparency

If provided, base salary or wage rate ranges are the range in which Align reasonably expects to set a candidate’s pay for the posted position. Actual placement depends on the individual skills and experience level of a candidate plus the total compensation and equity across team members. For other locations outside of the primary location, the base salary range will be adjusted geographically.

For Field Sales roles, the salary listed is the base pay only and does not include the applicable incentive compensation plan. A cost of living adjustment may be added to base pay for higher cost areas in the U.S.

Our internship hourly rates are a standard pay determined based on the position and your location, year in school, degree, and experience.

General Description Of All Benefits

We are pleased to provide a general description of the benefits Align offers to full-time employees in this position.

• Family…