Product Director

Product Director at General Dynamics Information Technology

As a Product Director at GDIT you will lead a software product team and drive program transformation at one of our large government customers. This role will have a unique blend of headcount where you will lead product management, product owners and program staff.

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Ensuring that we meet the outcomes and objectives we have defined with our customer.
• Draft, maintain, and communicate business plans, strategic vision and roadmaps, alignment with core stakeholders.
• Giving direction to Product Development on product features and priorities in line with established objectives.
• Understands competitive landscape from strategy to functional capabilities.
• Functions as the primary Subject Matter Expert on the product management and program management.
• Identifies and addresses significant market opportunities that are addressable by existing or future products.
• Tracks and manages business metrics and analytics to ensure on-track portfolio performance.
• Engages with senior-level executives at customer meetings to evangelize GDIT and the work we do.
• Manages relationships with internal and external business stakeholders, working closely with business development, program management, sales engineering and executives.
• Manages relationships with key partners (vendors, channels, marketing partners).
• Drives market acceptance by evangelizing product to all stakeholders.
• Participates in RFP responses.
• Managing, coaching and mentoring staff.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

Bring your program and product management expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Product Director must have:

• Minimum Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Preferred Education: Master’s Degree
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in a leadership role with management responsibilities
• 5+ years managing product and program management
• 5+ years in project/program management
• US citizenship required
• Traveling: up to 50% to Washington DC area
• Growth mindset, the ability to look and find opportunities for both the customer and GDIT

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

Total Rewards At GDIT

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• Program Management
• Strategic Vision
• Roadmapping
• Client Relationship Building
• Stakeholder Management
• Market Opportunity Analysis
• Business Planning
• Software Engineering Leadership
• Government Contracting