Product Director

About the position

The Product Director is customer-obsessed and leads the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a mission-critical product ecosystem at Atlas Air. This role goes far beyond backlog management-it requires a sharp strategic thinker with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver impactful business outcomes. The product director is effectively the 'voice of the customer/end-user in the product.' They effectively integrate, motivate and build relationships with and between team members, key stakeholders, customers, executives, and other individuals or organizations involved with the end-to-end product life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate Atlas Air's core values, including integrity, customer focus, teamwork, innovation, and accountability as stated in our company, 'Code of Conduct' policy, and to respond appropriately in the event of any known departure
• Consistently apply high standards of strategic judgment, cross-functional leadership, and organizational influence.
• Lead by example in fostering a customer-centric mindset and product leadership across teams.
• Operate with strategic autonomy while balancing trade-offs, inspiring teams to deliver impactful and meaningful outcomes.
• Maintain a commitment to continuous learning, adaptability, and innovation-first thinking.
• Define and continuously evolve product strategy and vision aligned with Atlas Air's strategic priorities, focusing on both short- and long-term outcomes.
• Translate ambiguous inputs into structured, outcome-driven product plans, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.
• Influence executive stakeholders using compelling, data-driven narratives, driving alignment on product vision and strategy.
• Lead customer discovery, experimentation, and rapid iteration to validate needs and assumptions, identifying latent user needs.
• Own the product roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that balance customer, business, and technical outcomes, while maintaining strategic alignment.
• Foster collaboration and partnerships across engineering, design, operations, data, and business teams to ensure successful product delivery.
• Establish clear KPIs and success metrics, adjusting the product strategy based on continuous learning and feedback from stakeholders.
• Act as a player-coach, mentoring talent, fostering a growth mindset, and raising the bar for product thinking and execution.
• Champion innovation through customer insights, lean experimentation, and rapid iteration, while maintaining alignment with broader business goals.
• Financially literate and can manage a P&L if required.
• Support Application Development Chapter Lead in implementing an engineering culture.
• Support Portfolio Senior Director in implementing an adaptive human-centric system of work.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of product management experience with 3+ years with full accountability of a complex enterprise-level program, portfolio or product
• Proven success in strategic product management roles, with a focus on driving business outcomes and impact, rather than just managing deliverables.
• Proven track record of defining and executing product strategies
• Experience leading product strategy in high-growth, ambiguous, or consultative environments (e.g., technology, strategy consulting, or transformation roles).
• Demonstrated ability to define product vision, strategy, and outcomes, not just deliverables.
• Strong track record of working with senior leaders and influencing cross-functional stakeholders in a collaborative, consultative manner.
• Experience with customer discovery techniques, agile product delivery, and experimentation frameworks.
• Familiarity with modern SDLC practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud-native systems, is a plus.
• Experience managing ERPs or Enterprise Platforms as a product
• Airline or logistics experience an advantage but not essential
• Proven ability to lead through influence, aligning teams and stakeholders around a unified product vision.
• Experience in multiple industries is valued (e.g., technology, FinTech, SaaS, HealthTech), with the ability to ramp up in new domains quickly.
• A background in consulting, technology, or other high-growth sectors is highly valued, with an emphasis on strategic problem-solving and driving results.
• Career progression reflecting increased scope, strategic influence, and team impact.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in multiple industries is valued (e.g., technology, FinTech, SaaS, HealthTech), with the ability to ramp up in new domains quickly.
• A background in consulting, technology, or other high-growth sectors is highly valued, with an emphasis on strategic problem-solving and driving results.

Benefits

• 401k
• 401k_matching
• dental_insurance
• health_insurance
• life_insurance
• paid_holidays
• tuition_reimbursement
• wellness_programs