Sr Director, Product Management

Jeppesen ForeFlight builds industry-leading aviation software used by pilots, flight departments, aircraft operators, and major airlines worldwide. As a high-growth, private equity-backed company, we are focused on scaling our operations, strengthening our product portfolio, and defining the future of aviation technology. Our team combines deep aviation domain expertise with a collaborative, high-performance culture to solve complex problems across flight planning, dispatch, charts, aeronautical data, airport operations, mobile applications, enterprise workflows, and connected aviation systems. **About The Role** We are looking for a Sr. Director of Product Management to lead a major product portfolio and help shape the next generation of Jeppesen ForeFlight products. This is a senior product leadership role for someone who can operate at both strategic and executional levels: setting vision, developing evidence-based roadmaps, coaching product managers, engaging directly with customers, and partnering deeply with Engineering, Design, Data, Sales, Marketing, Support, and aviation domain experts. The ideal candidate is an AI-forward, builder-mindset product leader who understands how to turn complex workflows into intuitive, trusted, high-impact software. Aviation experience is strongly preferred, especially exposure to pilots, flight departments, airlines, dispatch, avionics, airport operations, aeronautical data, EFBs, or geospatial/navigation products, but it is not required for an exceptional product leader with strong technical depth and curiosity. **Key Responsibilities** - Own and drive product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for a major Jeppesen ForeFlight product portfolio. - Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers, raising the bar for discovery, product judgment, customer empathy, prioritization, communication, and measurable outcomes. - Develop deep subject-matter expertise in aviation workflows, aeronautical data, customer operations, and the needs of pilots, dispatchers, administrators, operators, and enterprise customers. - Translate customer feedback, market research, operational data, and business objectives into thoughtful, problem-oriented product requirements. - Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data Production, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Marketing, Sales, Support, Legal, and external customers to bring products and features to market. - Communicate product requirements clearly to software engineering, data production, and design teams, ensuring alignment across roadmap targets, data needs, product specifications, and release plans. - Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic customers, prospects, aviation partners, OEMs, and internal stakeholders. - Pitch senior leadership on product vision, business cases, roadmap priorities, investment opportunities, competitive responses, and product strategy. - Identify and lead opportunities to apply AI, automation, predictive intelligence, workflow intelligence, and agentic experiences to improve customer outcomes, operational efficiency, and safety. - Develop multi-phase product plans, product architecture narratives, business cases, launch plans, pricing inputs, adoption plans, and lifecycle management processes. - Define KPIs, OKRs, and product success metrics; use quantitative and qualitative evidence to guide prioritization and investment. - Coordinate across product portfolios to ensure alignment across ForeFlight Mobile, Flight Deck, Dispatch, Enterprise, Data, Documents, Content, and related platform capabilities. - Represent Jeppesen ForeFlight at customer meetings, partner discussions, trade shows, industry events, and executive briefings. **Basic Qualifications** - 12+ years of product management experience, including significant experience leading product managers or product teams. - Demonstrated success delivering complex software products and driving measurable business outcomes at a technology com…