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The Leader, Global Product Management will be responsible for shaping a unified, global product strategy that protects the legacy of JOA’s flagship products while unlocking growth, efficiency, and innovation across both the JOA and CCS brands.
Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions of the Job:
1. Product Lifecycle Management
- Oversee new product introductions, platform upgrades, and end-of-life decisions for both legacy portfolios.
- Establish global standards for performance, features, durability, reliability, and cost targets.
- Drive modularization and shared component strategies where appropriate.
- Analyze global market trends, customer segments, competitor offerings, and price structures.
- Maintain close relationships with major customers—both long-standing premium buyers and the value-focused customer base inherited from Italy.
- Identify unmet needs and recommend next-generation features or entirely new product lines.
- Direct New Product Development by initiating new and/or improved feature, performance or upgrade requests founded in voice of customer and voice of market analysis.
- Direct customer requested opportunities to the proper platform management channels.
- Partner with engineering and legal teams to apply our strong IP portfolio across the entire product line (US -founded and IT-founded).
- Assess opportunities to leverage IP to strengthen differentiation, simplify designs, or block competitive threats.
- Build and manage a team of product line “Platform Managers”.
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, marketing, finance, sales, and service teams across the U.S. and Italy.
- Guide Engineering and R&D prioritization based on clear business cases, ROI, and strategic importance.
- Support operations in aligning manufacturing strategies—premium builds, value-tier builds, and hybrid solutions.
- Partner with Sales to translate VOC/VOM insights into market positioning, pricing guidance, product training, and competitive talking points.
- Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on launch strategies for new platforms and updates, incorporating customer feedback, market needs, and competitive intelligence.
- Work jointly with Sales and Marketing to communicate the strengths of the combined portfolio, ensuring messaging reflects customer and market priorities while protecting brand equity.
- Establish an ongoing feedback loop with Sales to capture emerging customer needs, competitive activity, objections, and market trends and incorporate those insights into product and commercial priorities.
- Serve as the product bridge between U.S. and Italian operations, ensuring disciplined alignment and transparent communication.
- Identify operational redundancies and product synergies that can improve efficiency without compromising quality.
- Own and optimize assigned machinery platforms to maximize profitability, standardization, and scalability by aligning customer requirements with proven designs, technology libraries, preferred vendors, layouts, and processes.
- Drive platform strategy and continuous improvement by monitoring customer and market needs, emerging materials, machinery, processes, and competitive developments, and translating insights into platform, technology, and capability roadmaps.
- Provide technical and commercial leadership throughout the sales and project lifecycle, including evaluation of customer specifications, equipment selection, layouts, engineering estimates, performance criteria, risk assessments, and other engineering inputs required for proposals and successful machine integration.
- Champion successful project execution and platform governance by partnering with project managers and cross-functional subject matter experts to manage technical risk, control platform changes, maintain design standards, and achieve customer expectations for quality, cost, scope, and on-time delivery.
- Serve as the platform subject matter expert and thought leader, representing JOA with customers and at relevant industry events while maintaining platform knowledge, protecting proprietary information, advancing strategic technologies and processes, and developing others to ensure succession of critical knowledge and capabilities.
Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business Administration from a four-year college or university.
- 6+ years related engineering or product management experience; or 10 – 12 years of progressively responsible related experience including supervisory experience.
- This role requires sound judgment, disciplined execution, and respect for how great companies are built over time.
- Product management or product strategy perspective and/or experience in industrial machinery, capital equipment, or related engineered products.
- Demonstrated aptitude to assess, understand, and manage global product portfolios.
- Strong technical aptitude with an appreciation for engineering rigor and manufacturing discipline.
- Experience integrating product lines post-acquisition is a strong advantage.
- Ability to travel globally as needed.
- Fluid in written and spoken English.
The Leader, Global Product Management will be responsible for shaping a unified, global product strategy that protects the legacy of JOA’s flagship products while unlocking growth, efficiency, and innovation across both the JOA and CCS brands.
Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions of the Job:
1. Product Lifecycle Management
- Oversee new product introductions, platform upgrades, and end-of-life decisions for both legacy portfolios.
- Establish global standards for performance, features, durability, reliability, and cost targets.
- Drive modularization and shared component strategies where appropriate.
- Analyze global market trends, customer segments, competitor offerings, and price structures.
- Maintain close relationships with major customers—both long-standing premium buyers and the value-focused customer base inherited from Italy.
- Identify unmet needs and recommend next-generation features or entirely new product lines.
- Direct New Product Development by initiating new and/or improved feature, performance or upgrade requests founded in voice of customer and voice of market analysis.
- Direct customer requested opportunities to the proper platform management channels.
- Partner with engineering and legal teams to apply our strong IP portfolio across the entire product line (US -founded and IT-founded).
- Assess opportunities to leverage IP to strengthen differentiation, simplify designs, or block competitive threats.
- Build and manage a team of product line “Platform Managers”.
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, marketing, finance, sales, and service teams across the U.S. and Italy.
- Guide Engineering and R&D prioritization based on clear business cases, ROI, and strategic importance.
- Support operations in aligning manufacturing strategies—premium builds, value-tier builds, and hybrid solutions.
- Partner with Sales to translate VOC/VOM insights into market positioning, pricing guidance, product training, and competitive talking points.
- Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on launch strategies for new platforms and updates, incorporating customer feedback, market needs, and competitive intelligence.
- Work jointly with Sales and Marketing to communicate the strengths of the combined portfolio, ensuring messaging reflects customer and market priorities while protecting brand equity.
- Establish an ongoing feedback loop with Sales to capture emerging customer needs, competitive activity, objections, and market trends and incorporate those insights into product and commercial priorities.
- Serve as the product bridge between U.S. and Italian operations, ensuring disciplined alignment and transparent communication.
- Identify operational redundancies and product synergies that can improve efficiency without compromising quality.
- Own and optimize assigned machinery platforms to maximize profitability, standardization, and scalability by aligning customer requirements with proven designs, technology libraries, preferred vendors, layouts, and processes.
- Drive platform strategy and continuous improvement by monitoring customer and market needs, emerging materials, machinery, processes, and competitive developments, and translating insights into platform, technology, and capability roadmaps.
- Provide technical and commercial leadership throughout the sales and project lifecycle, including evaluation of customer specifications, equipment selection, layouts, engineering estimates, performance criteria, risk assessments, and other engineering inputs required for proposals and successful machine integration.
- Champion successful project execution and platform governance by partnering with project managers and cross-functional subject matter experts to manage technical risk, control platform changes, maintain design standards, and achieve customer expectations for quality, cost, scope, and on-time delivery.
- Serve as the platform subject matter expert and thought leader, representing JOA with customers and at relevant industry events while maintaining platform knowledge, protecting proprietary information, advancing strategic technologies and processes, and developing others to ensure succession of critical knowledge and capabilities.
Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
- Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Business Administration from a four-year college or university.
- 6+ years related engineering or product management experience; or 10 – 12 years of progressively responsible related experience including supervisory experience.
- This role requires sound judgment, disciplined execution, and respect for how great companies are built over time.
- Product management or product strategy perspective and/or experience in industrial machinery, capital equipment, or related engineered products.
- Demonstrated aptitude to assess, understand, and manage global product portfolios.
- Strong technical aptitude with an appreciation for engineering rigor and manufacturing discipline.
- Experience integrating product lines post-acquisition is a strong advantage.
- Ability to travel globally as needed.
- Fluid in written and spoken English.
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Who's Hiring
- TikTok38
- Amazon18
- Google13
- JPMorganChase13
- ASM11
Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing
- Technology & Software
- Electronics & Hardware
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- Sports & Recreation
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in global product director jobs.
- 8 or more years of product management experience with at least 2 at director level
- Proven leadership of distributed or international product teams across multiple time zones
- Experience defining and executing multi-year product roadmaps tied to business outcomes
- Strong command of product discovery frameworks, user research methods, and data analysis
- History of partnering with engineering, design, marketing, and sales on major launches
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field
Tips for Your Global Product Director Job Search
Quantify cross-functional impact on your resume
Hiring managers for global product director roles want to see outcomes you drove across engineering, design, and commercial teams. Replace vague ownership language with specific metrics like revenue influenced, adoption rates, or launch timelines you compressed.
Tailor your resume to each company stage
A growth-stage company wants a global product director who can build process from scratch, while an enterprise wants one who can operate within it. Read the job description carefully and mirror the language around scale, structure, or speed that matches where the company is.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists global product director openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target roles by product motion not industry
Global product director searches are easier to focus when you filter by product motion, such as PLG, sales-led, or marketplace, rather than industry alone. Your experience in a PLG SaaS company often transfers directly to another PLG fintech or healthtech role.
Prepare a product thesis for each interview
Interviewers at the director level expect you to arrive with a point of view on their product, market, and gaps. Spend an hour forming a short thesis on where you would take the product in the first 90 days and be ready to defend it under pushback.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
When you receive an offer, clarify what global means in practice, which markets you own, whether you have a seat in the leadership team, and what your headcount authority is. Scope ambiguity at the director level leads to misaligned expectations within the first quarter.
Global Product Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most global product directors?
The most active employers for global product directors right now are TikTok, Amazon, and Google, and the most openings are in California, New York, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated at technology platforms and enterprise software companies operating across multiple regions.
How many global product director jobs are remote?
About 62% of global product director openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong employer flexibility at the senior individual-contributor and director level. Platform product roles and those tied to international expansion tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles that require close alignment with on-site engineering or executive teams skew hybrid.
How do you become a global product director?
Start by building several years of product management experience where you own end-to-end delivery across a cross-functional team. Progress into a lead or principal PM role where you manage other PMs or define strategy for a product area. Seek out international product exposure, whether through global market launches, localization work, or partnerships. When you can articulate a product vision, build alignment across leadership, and point to measurable outcomes you drove at scale, you are ready to pursue director-level roles.
Can you get a global product director role without prior director experience?
Yes, especially at growth-stage companies that promote from within or value demonstrated leadership over titles. If you are coming from a senior or staff PM role, focus your application on moments where you acted like a director: setting strategy across a portfolio, influencing without authority, or hiring and developing other PMs. Companies in expansion mode often open their first global product director role to a strong internal or external candidate who has led a team and shipped at scale, even without the exact title.
What does the global product director interview process look like?
Most global product director interview processes run three to five stages. An initial recruiter screen is followed by a hiring manager conversation focused on your product philosophy and leadership approach. You will then typically complete a product strategy case or take-home exercise tied to their actual market challenges. Final rounds include panel interviews with cross-functional partners such as engineering leads, designers, or commercial executives, plus a session with a senior leader or CPO. References are checked before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to global product director jobs?
You can find and apply to global product director jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and experience, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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