Director, Product Management - Portfolio
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About the Role
OpenText is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead product strategy, portfolio governance, and product management excellence across a broad enterprise software portfolio.
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Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio strategy, planning, and governance for approximately 45 master products across 8 lines of business
- Define investment priorities by evaluating client needs, market trends, competitive dynamics, financial performance, strategic fit, and product health
- Recommend growth investments, modernization priorities, product rationalization, consolidation opportunities, and end of life decisions
- Establish clear portfolio prioritization frameworks to guide funding, roadmap trade offs, resource allocation, and lifecycle decisions
- Lead or participate in Portfolio Review Boards, Product Reviews, Annual Planning, Executive Staff discussions, and other strategic business forums
- Ensure product roadmaps align with business strategy, client priorities, market opportunities, and development capacity
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 16 Product Management professionals, including 2 to 3 people managers
- Strengthen product management practices across strategy, roadmap quality, client insight, business case development, and executive communication
- Champion practical use of AI tools across Product Management
- Partner with Development, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Client Success, Operations, and executive leadership to align strategy, execution, and business outcomes
- Develop and review business cases for growth initiatives, modernization efforts, acquisitions, platform investments, and portfolio optimization
- Engage with clients, partners, analysts, sales teams, and client success teams to validate priorities and inform product decisions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent practical experience considered
- 15+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, Portfolio Management, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of people leadership experience, including experience managing managers
- Experience leading complex enterprise software portfolios or multi product product organizations
- Strong understanding of portfolio strategy, investment prioritization, roadmap governance, and product lifecycle management
- Strong business acumen, including ability to evaluate market opportunities, financial performance, competitive position, and strategic investment choices
- Experience developing business cases and making funding, prioritization, and resource allocation recommendations
- Practical proficiency with AI assisted tools to improve productivity and support data informed decision making
- Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead cross functional initiatives
- Strong client and market orientation
- Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational leadership skills
- Ability to bring clarity and action to complex and ambiguous business environments
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Your Impact
- You will shape the strategy, investment priorities, and long term health of a broad enterprise software portfolio.
- Your work will help the organization make clearer decisions on where to invest, modernize, simplify, rationalize, or retire products.
- You will also strengthen Product Management excellence by coaching leaders and Product Managers, improving planning and decision making practices, applying AI tools to increase productivity and insight generation, and raising the standard for strategy, execution, market understanding, and executive
Key Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio strategy, planning, and governance for approximately 45 master products across 8 lines of business.
- Define investment priorities by evaluating client needs, market trends, competitive dynamics, financial performance, strategic fit, and product health.
- Recommend growth investments, modernization priorities, product rationalization, consolidation opportunities, and end of life decisions.
- Establish clear portfolio prioritization frameworks to guide funding, roadmap trade offs, resource allocation, and lifecycle decisions.
- Lead or participate in Portfolio Review Boards, Product Reviews, Annual Planning, Executive Staff discussions, and other strategic business forums.
- Ensure product roadmaps align with business strategy, client priorities, market opportunities, and development capacity.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 16 Product Management professionals, including 2 to 3 people managers.
- Strengthen product management practices across strategy, roadmap quality, client insight, business case development, and executive communication.
- Champion practical use of AI tools across Product Management, including AI assisted research, documentation, competitive analysis, roadmap analysis, client insight synthesis, business case development, and decision support.
- Partner with Development, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Client Success, Operations, and executive leadership to align strategy, execution, and business outcomes.
- Develop and review business cases for growth initiatives, modernization efforts, acquisitions, platform investments, and portfolio optimization.
- Engage with clients, partners, analysts, sales teams, and client success teams to validate priorities and inform product decisions.
What You Need to Succeed
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent practical experience will also be considered.
- 15+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, Portfolio Management, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of people leadership experience, including experience managing managers.
- Experience leading complex enterprise software portfolios or multi product product organizations.
- Strong understanding of portfolio strategy, investment prioritization, roadmap governance, and product lifecycle management.
- Strong business acumen, including the ability to evaluate market opportunities, financial performance, competitive position, and strategic investment choices.
- Experience developing business cases and making funding, prioritization, and resource allocation recommendations.
- Practical proficiency with AI assisted tools to improve productivity, analyze and synthesize large volumes of information, and support faster, data informed decision making.
- Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead cross functional initiatives.
- Strong client and market orientation, with the ability to translate client problems into clear product priorities and measurable outcomes.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational leadership skills.
- Ability to bring clarity and action to complex and ambiguous business environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
- Experience in enterprise software, information management, SaaS, cloud, or platform businesses.
- Experience using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Microsoft Copilot, or similar AI assisted platforms to improve Product Management workflows, research, documentation, analysis, or decision support.
- Experience leading product modernization, portfolio transformation, or strategic planning initiatives.
- Strong understanding of financial planning, investment evaluation, and portfolio governance.
Compensation
- At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
- As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.
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