Director of Product Management - Developer Tools

Idera, Inc. is a company that provides a portfolio of developer tools used by hundreds of thousands of developers and companies worldwide. They are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead product teams for their four key products, focusing on strategic ownership, team management, and product differentiation in the market.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage the product managers assigned to APILayer, Filestack, Froala, and FusionCharts — coaching them on craft, prioritization, stakeholder communication, and strategic thinking
• Set clear expectations, create accountability, and help each PM grow into a stronger product leader
• Foster a culture of customer-led decision-making and disciplined roadmap management across the team
• Develop and maintain a coherent product strategy for each of the four products, grounded in market opportunity, competitive dynamics, and customer needs
• Identify and articulate where the products share buyers, adjacent use cases, or opportunities for deeper integration, and build strategic initiatives around those insights
• Ensure each product's roadmap reflects a clear point of view on where the market is going and how Idera can win — not just a queue of feature requests
• Maintain a sharp, current understanding of the developer tools market — particularly the API marketplace, file management, rich text editing, and JavaScript data visualization segments
• Conduct ongoing customer discovery and competitive analysis, translating market intelligence into strategic product and roadmap decisions
• Be the internal authority on the buyers and end users of these products: how developers evaluate and adopt them, what drives expansion and churn, and what winning looks like for an ISV building on top of these components
• Clearly communicate product strategy, roadmap priorities, and progress to senior stakeholders — ensuring alignment between product direction and company-level goals
• Make the case for roadmap investments with data and strategic clarity, surfacing tradeoffs early and resolving them constructively
• Keep engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success aligned and informed as priorities evolve
• Work with go-to-market teams on positioning, messaging, and product launch readiness — providing product knowledge and market context without owning the commercial function directly
• Partner with engineering leadership on sequencing, capacity, and delivery — ensuring roadmaps are realistic and 'why' behind priorities is understood and shared
• Support key sales cycles, analyst briefings, or partnership conversations where deep product expertise is needed

Requirements:

• Meaningful product management experience in developer tools, API products, or developer-facing B2B SaaS — with a track record of owning and shipping products that developers love and pay for
• Prior experience managing product managers, with demonstrated ability to develop PM talent and hold a team accountable to outcomes
• Familiarity with the embedded software or developer components space is a strong plus — understanding how ISVs and development teams evaluate, integrate, and build on top of third-party components and APIs
• Comfortable discussing REST APIs, SDKs, webhooks, authentication, and integration patterns with engineering teams
• Able to engage credibly with architects and technical evaluators without requiring a translator between the business and engineering sides of the organization
• Can synthesize customer discovery, market trends, and competitive signals into a clear product point of view — and communicate it persuasively to audiences ranging from engineering teams to senior leadership
• Comfortable operating in a portfolio context — able to hold strategy for multiple products simultaneously without losing focus or letting priorities blur
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to craft narratives for different audiences and different products without defaulting to generic positioning
• Natural collaborator who builds trust across functions — engineering, sales, marketing, customer success — and can drive alignment without relying on formal authority
• Steady under ambiguity; able to make sound prioritization calls with incomplete information and adjust strategy as markets and business conditions evolve
• Direct and constructive; willing to push back on low-value requests, surface hard tradeoffs, and advocate for what is right for the product and the customer
• Experience with product-led growth (PLG) motions, self-serve acquisition, or developer community engagement
• Familiarity with JavaScript ecosystems, content APIs, file processing infrastructure, or data visualization libraries
• Experience working in a multi-brand or portfolio company — managing products across different markets and buyer types simultaneously
• Background in or exposure to pricing and packaging for API-based or usage-based products
• Track record of working effectively with distributed, international teams across multiple time zones