Resume Skills and Keywords for Director of Product Management

The product director manages the lifespan of a product and ensures that development teams have all of the tools they require. They also establish product criteria, develop a vision, and integrate the product with the company's overall strategy. Their responsibilities include coordinating with various departments to develop new products and services, overseeing product development operations to ensure smooth flow and efficiency, devising strategies to improve processes, gathering relevant data such as sales and customer feedback, and overseeing product development operations to ensure smooth flow and efficiency.

Skills required for Director of Product Management role

  • Technical Product R&D 
  • Product Roadmaps 
  • Team Leadership 
  • SDLC 
  • Market & Competitor Research 
  • UX / UI Design 
  • Product Lifecycle Management 
  • Agile / Scrum Methodologies 
  • QA Testing 
  • Go-toMarket Launch Plans 
  • Test-Driven Development 
  • Troubleshooting & Debugging 
  • Financial Modeling & Forecasting 

What recruiters look for in a Director of Product Management resume: 

  • Prior experience in creating product vision and driving the roadmap, execution, and strategy for a Portfolio or Program of products, projects, and initiatives 
  • Competence in partnering closely with engineering, UX, and business leaders to deliver solutions that satisfy customer experience, business, and technology goals 
  • Ownership of the product road map and release cycles. Engage closely with PM peers and the Engineering Team to deliver the roadmap

What can make your  Director of Product Management resume stand out:

A strong summary that demonstrates your skills, experience and background in leading product development:

  • A leader in product management with extensive expertise leading cross-functional teams to develop, construct, launch, and manage world-class SaaS innovations. Blend technology skills with extensive Agile/ Scrum experience, marketing orientation, and analytical abilities to evolve product strategy. Prioritize and manage several projects while adhering to deadlines and financial constraints. 

Targeted job description 

  • Work very closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including and not limited to operations team, software developers, embedded engineers, data scientists, service designers and business analysts.
  • Receive and review numerous Product Proposals to authorize the effect of any solutions and strategies for the business’s product
  • Process, review and interpret large bodies of qualitative and quantitative data on customer usage patterns to uncover new product insights

Related academic background 

  • Post Graduate Program (Exec. MBA) - Strategy & Leadership | Indian School of Business- 2010 
  • Bachelor’s in Business Administration (B.B.A. Hons.) – Marketing | Oxford Brookes University- 2010 

Sample Resume of Director of Product Management in Text Format

Rabia Khan 

Director of Product Management 

+9878965467888 | rabiakhan@gmail.com 

SUMMARY

A leader in product management with extensive expertise leading cross-functional teams to develop, construct, launch, and manage world-class SaaS innovations. Blend technology skills with extensive Agile/ Scrum experience, a marketing orientation and analytical abilities to evolve product strategy. Prioritize and manage several projects while adhering to deadlines and financial constraints. 

EMPLOYMENT 

Director - Product Management

Viacom Media | 2016 - 2021 

  • Led product and business strategy for embedded OEM software components licensed to leading software application providers including Google, IBM, Microsoft, Symantec, Thomson Reuters and others. 
  • Oversaw inbound and outbound product management including requirements gathering, product planning, go-to-market, marketing communications, sales support and license contract negotiation. 
  • Led joint sales, engineering, and product management meetings with customers to share roadmaps, identify new requirements and ensure alignment. 
  • Developed annual product business plan which demonstrated alignment with market trends and overall division strategy. Monitored existing and emerging markets to anticipate longer-term opportunities and align roadmap. 
  • Developed a business plan for and proposed a hosted software service to broaden distribution and align with the company’s cloud strategy. 
  • Designed and implemented a multi-year requirements survey and gap analysis which improved product development focus. 
  • Oversaw the development and execution of competitive interviews which provided new differentiation points. 

Director - Product Management

ZS Electronics | 2012 - 2016 

  • Recognized and acted on the need for a new product development approach and brought in the scrum as our agile methodology. 
  • Increased sales-development alignment 70% by implementing release planning, versioning, and agile (scrum) development technique and supporting Jira/grasshopper tools. 
  • Facilitate both sprints and release planning for prioritizing the feature set and bug fixes in preparation for a successful launch of each release. 
  • Ensure delivery of product vision communicating goals and release plans internally and externally. Prioritized the feature set in preparation for a successful launch of each release. 
  • Establish a foundation of understanding for data protection, data analytics, and data management applications in the data center. Manage 3 direct reports. 
  • Drove sales 100% and reduced customer churn 25% by developing cross-database platform actionable data warehouse management dashboards. 
  • Increased sales opportunities by 400% by developing solutions for migrating to and ongoing optimization for Exadata. 

EDUCATION 

  • Post Graduate Program (Exec. MBA) - Strategy & Leadership | Indian School of Business- 2010 
  • Bachelor’s in Business Administration (B.B.A. Hons.) – Marketing | Oxford Brookes University- 2010 

SKILLS 

  • Technical Product R&D 
  • Product Roadmaps 
  • Team Leadership 
  • SDLC 
  • Market & Competitor Research 
  • UX / UI Design 
  • Product Lifecycle Management 
  • Agile / Scrum Methodologies 
  • QA Testing 
  • Go-toMarket Launch Plans 
  • Test-Driven Development 
  • Troubleshooting & Debugging 
  • Financial Modeling & Forecasting 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Java 
  • Groovy 
  • C++
  •  JavaScript 
  • Angular JS 
  • jQuery 
  • Ruby 
  • VBA Jersey 
  • Spring MVC 
  • Rails 
  • Grails 
  • Sinatra SQL (Postgres, MySQL) 
  • NoSQL (MongoDB) 
  • Liquibase 
  • MyBatis 
  • Hibernate