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As a Director of Product Management, your impact extends beyond individual products. You define category vision, build high performing teams, and set the standard for how product strategy drives enterprise growth.

When you step into a Director role at Trove Brands, you step into enterprise ownership. You commit to building category strategies that scale, developing talent that elevates the organization, and transforming ambiguity into structured, repeatable product excellence. Your leadership ensures the right products exist, the right teams are aligned, and the right investments are made to win in market.

The Director of Product Management Role

The Director of Product Management is responsible for owning product strategy, execution, and organizational leadership across a portfolio of product categories. Organized by product category rather than brand, this role defines what products exist and how portfolios evolve over time.

This role leads and develops a team of Product Managers, setting standards for product definition and execution. The Director serves as the Product Development counterpart to Brand Directors, partnering closely with Brand leadership, Engineering, Design, Legal, Supply Chain, and Commercial leaders to ensure products are user centered and commercially successful. This role serves as a senior category and portfolio expert, ensuring individual product decisions align with broader portfolio strategy and long term business objectives.

At Trove Brands, Product Management and Brand Management work as close peers, Product Managers own category roadmaps, product definition, and cross-functional execution within Product Development. Product Managers receive product ideas from across the organization, ensure they are properly vetted, and partner with Brand to champion the right products through development and into market. The Director of Product Management ensures this partnership operates effectively at scale across all categories

How You'll Make an Impact

Every role at Trove Brands is critical to our success as a whole. As Director of Product Management, your impact expands across strategy, execution, and talent development. Your responsibilities will include:

• Own the 1-to-3-year product strategy and roadmap across multiple product categories
• Define category-level product strategy in partnership with Brand and Executive leadership, translating brand and consumer direction into product roadmaps and portfolio plans
• Build, lead, and develop a team of Product Managers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
• Set clear expectations, processes, and standards for product definition and lifecycle management
• Lead category and portfolio level product planning, prioritization, and investment decisions
• Partner with Brand leadership to align multi-generational brand plans with category level product strategy
• Ensure product teams leverage insights from Consumer Insights and Brand teams, supplemented by market and competitive research, to develop clear, durable product definitions
• Act as a senior category and portfolio expert, monitoring trends, white space, and competitive dynamics
• Lead semiannual portfolio and roadmap reviews with senior leadership
• Partner with Engineering and Operations leadership to ensure products meet cost, quality, schedule, and regulatory goals at scale
• Incorporate in market performance, financial results, and learnings into future portfolio strategy
• Ensure product decisions remain aligned with user needs, long term portfolio health, and company strategy
• Present category strategy, portfolio performance, and key investment decisions to Executive Leadership

What You'll Bring to the Team

We seek leaders who thrive in complexity, build clarity at scale, and elevate the teams around them. For this role, we are looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Product Management, Industrial Design, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• 5 to 10+ years of relevant product management experience in hardgoods, performance gear, outdoor products, or consumer durable goods
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing product management teams
• Demonstrated success building and executing multi category roadmaps and portfolio strategies
• Deep understanding of hardgoods construction, materials such as metals, polymers, and composites, component systems, and end to end development processes
• Strong financial acumen including assortment planning, margin modeling, and portfolio performance analysis
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across functions without direct authority
• Experience working with global manufacturing partners and managing overseas vendor relationships
• Proficiency in Excel, PLM systems such as Centric, Flex, or NGC, and data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI
• Passion for innovative gear, performance driven products, and building meaningful consumer experiences at scale

How We'll Help You Succeed