Director, Product Management

As Director of Product Management, you will set the strategic direction for ASTM's product portfolio and lead a team that develops, enhances, launches, and manages products throughout their lifecycle. You will make informed, high-impact decisions that balance customer needs, market opportunity, business value, technology feasibility, and ASTM's strategic priorities.

You will help transform ASTM's decades of industry expertise and trusted technical information assets into innovative, software-powered businesses. Backed by ASTM's scale, resources, reputation, and global market presence, the team will operate with an entrepreneurial mindset while maintaining the quality, integrity, customer trust, and disciplined portfolio management expected of ASTM. The Director will align product strategy, team capacity, technology investment, and go-to-market priorities with business and customer outcomes.

The Director will develop and mentor Product Management staff and collaborate across ASTM divisions and functions to align product strategy, customer needs, technology investment, commercialization, and delivery priorities. You will leverage ASTM's collective expertise to improve the experience and productivity of members, customers, and users.

You will direct the Product Management staff to develop and manage differentiated, high-value products and services that address the needs of ASTM members, customers, and users. Ensures the product portfolio improves customer productivity, strengthens ASTM's market position, supports sustainable revenue growth, and advances ASTM's mission and strategic priorities.

The Director will lead internal teams to identify, validate, and develop data-driven and AI-enabled product opportunities that create meaningful value for ASTM members and customers across industries. This may include AI-powered applications that help users discover, interpret, connect, and apply trusted technical information more effectively. The Director will also create a strategy for AI tools usage for Product Management staff with the goal of improving workflows.

This interdisciplinary leadership role requires business acumen, a strong understanding of ASTM members, customers, and users, and knowledge of how technical information and standards are accessed, interpreted, applied, and managed across industrial, government, academic, laboratory, and supply-chain environments. The Director should understand the domestic and global standards-development ecosystem and technical-information marketplace to identify customer needs, assess market opportunities, and guide differentiated product strategies.

The Director will lead customer and market discovery using voice-of-customer research, interviews, product data, market analysis, and design-thinking methods. Translate insights into clear product strategy, business cases, requirements, roadmaps, and measurable success criteria for products serving enterprises, manufacturers, OEMs, laboratories, government agencies, academic institutions, and other technical users. Oversee product discovery, prototyping, financial modeling, development prioritization, pilot programs, go-to-market readiness, launch, measurement, enhancement, and lifecycle management decisions.

You will partner with Digital Services and other delivery teams to guide product discovery, requirements, prioritization, development, release planning, measurement, and continuous improvement using agile product management and delivery practices, including SAFe as appropriate.

The Director will manage the Product Management department operating budget, including travel, consultant, prototyping, and research costs. Develop business cases, recommend funding and sequencing, and monitor forecasts and spending to ensure investments align with strategic priorities and expected business value. Monitor capital expense budget for project work across the department.

The role establishes product-management strategy, standards, operating practices, and portfolio governance across ASTM's product ecosystem, while directly leading the Product Management team and its assigned portfolio.

How You'll Make an Impact or Key Responsibilities

• Assess market opportunities across customer segments, client offerings, and use cases; Collaboratively recommend and jointly drive business cases, pricing, packaging, and investment recommendations with the offering leaders who own the business.
• Set integrated, multi-year product roadmaps in collaboration with the Product Managers, resolving competing priorities, dependencies, and investment trade-offs across products and teams.
• Assist in defining the metrics for product lines and ensure the instrumentation exists to measure them: adoption, retention, revenue, and other business outcomes, and use that evidence to guide commercialization and roadmap decisions.
• Manage cross-functional team relationships to drive a cohesive approach to product development, delivery, and commercialization; help establish the product management craft at ASTM: the standards, artifacts, and operating rhythm a product organization runs on and build AI-native product line management capability across teams.
• Establish appropriate governance for data-driven and AI-enabled products, including content authority, accuracy, provenance, licensing and rights considerations, privacy, security, transparency, evaluation, human oversight, and alignment with ASTM's reputation for quality and integrity. Be familiar with agentic AI workflows, RAG, and data fusion for insight delivery.
• Utilize AI fluency and agile methodology to enhance product development processes and be familiar with the concepts of agentic AI workflows, RAG, or data fusion for insight delivery.
• Translate ambiguous business goals into clearly defined agent roles, workflows, data requirements, and interface specs.

• Conduct competitive analysis and market research to inform product strategy and pricing
• Mentor and cultivate potential in team members, including direct reports, to drive innovation and creativity.

Preferred Qualifications & Competencies