Director of Product Management - Developer Tools

Idera, Inc. is a company managing a portfolio of developer tools serving a global developer and enterprise customer base. The Director of Product Management role leads product teams responsible for four key products, overseeing strategy, team development, and market engagement to grow and differentiate the portfolio. This role emphasizes strategic leadership, customer insights, and cross-functional collaboration in a remote, US-centered environment.

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