Director, Product Management
Description
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Company: Coreforce
Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Based on Experience
Company Overview:
Coreforce is an innovative technology company providing public safety organizations a comprehensive technology suite from dispatch to the courtroom. Coreforce delivers integrated technology designed to support public safety entities, regardless of organizational size. Our products - body cameras, in-car videos, mobile routers, and digital evidence systems, help public safety officers and first responders save lives, strengthen community trust, and enhance accountability.
Director, Product Management – Build Your Career with Purpose
Join Coreforce and use your product skills to support innovative technology that strengthens communities.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Flexible hybrid schedule.
- Free chef-inspired lunch Monday-Thursday.
- 15 PTO days + floating holiday.
- Competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k). We provide 401 (k) matching per the terms of the 401(k) plan.
- Annual bonus and tuition reimbursement.
- Career growth in a fast-growing, mission-driven company.
- Collaborative, purpose-driven culture.
Responsibilities:
- Team Building & Leadership: Recruit, build, and mentor a small, exceptional team of Product Managers, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and customer focus that can scale with the business. Operate as a true player-coach, leading by doing rather than delegating from a distance.
- Product Portfolio Oversight: Enforce full product lifecycle management, including strategic planning, development, launch, growth, and sunset, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Drive the development of an integrated ecosystem across our CAD, Records, and Jail products.
- Revenue Retention & Growth: Protect and grow existing revenue through strong customer retention and expansion strategies, while driving new bookings and top-line growth. Define and track goals at the product and portfolio levels to ensure investments deliver measurable outcomes as we move aggressively through higher revenue stages.
- Financial Partnership & Acumen: Serve as a strong, financially literate partner to Finance and FP&A, since our goals and our data all terminate in finance. Own the financial narrative for the CRJ portfolio, including forecasting, business cases, and ROI, and ensure product decisions are grounded in sound financial analysis.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitate strong communication and alignment with Engineering, Quality, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams, leveraging data and insights to drive decisions.
- Technical Acumen: Operate fluently in a dual-track development system, partnering with Engineering to ensure seamless execution of product roadmaps.
- Customer-Centric Approach: Engage deeply with customers to gather insights, identify opportunities, and ensure products meet market needs and deliver value.
- Strategic Product Leadership: Directly manage at least one product to set a benchmark for excellence, demonstrating best practices in product strategy, market fit, pricing, and packaging.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Utilize robust data collection and analytics to inform product strategies and measure success against defined objectives.
- Product Launch and Adoption: Lead go-to-market strategies, track product adoption versus goals, and refine strategies to maximize market impact.
- Pragmatic Marketing Excellence: Incorporate the principles of the Pragmatic Marketing framework to guide product strategy, market fit, and problem-solving.
- Competitive Focus: Maintain a sharp understanding of the competitive landscape, using market insights to win against competitors, capture new bookings, and seize opportunities that expand our market position.
- AI-First Transformation: Personally lead the team, and support the broader organization, through a transition to AI-first ways of working, treating data as a core company resource. Champion the adoption of AI-driven tools and workflows across product discovery, development, and decision-making, and bring the energy and conviction needed to bring others along on the journey.
- Innovative Mindset: Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to bring innovative, valuable solutions to market.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field.
- MBA or comparable business education.
- Proven experience as an exceptional Product Management leader who has helped scale a business through a significant growth stage, ideally at a similarly early-scale company aggressively moving through higher revenue stages.
- Experience operating within a private equity-backed, growth-focused business is highly beneficial, including familiarity with the accountability, pace, and reporting rigor that come with PE ownership.
- Demonstrated success in product strategy, market fit, pricing, and packaging for products that combine hardware and software.
- Track record of protecting and growing revenue through customer retention programs, and of driving new bookings through competitive, market-facing product strategy.
- Minimum of 5 years in a similar leadership role with SaaS products, with proven leadership of a product team in a SaaS environment and demonstrated success using customer references, case studies, and advocacy as a primary lever for growth.
- Demonstrated ability to lead an AI-first transformation across a team and broader organization, including evolving skill sets, processes, and roadmaps to leverage AI and treat data as a core strategic asset.
- Strong financial acumen, with experience building financial models, business cases, and forecasts, and partnering closely with Finance and FP&A on planning and reporting.
- Experience in public safety or law enforcement technology is a strong asset and highly valued, though not required for an otherwise exceptional candidate.
Coreforce is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.