Associate Director, Digital Product Management, Catalysts

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Associate Director, Digital Product Management, Catalysts based in the United States. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on accelerating digital product management maturity across complex, high-priority products and teams. You will embed directly with product organizations to strengthen product practices and adoption of an outcome-oriented operating model. The role combines hands-on product leadership, coaching, strategic problem solving, and cross-functional influence. You will help teams define meaningful problems, establish measurable outcomes, improve roadmaps, and make informed investment and prioritization decisions. Working across business, technology, data, compliance, quality, and product leadership, you will help resolve dependencies and navigate complex environments. You will also capture lessons from engagements and translate them into reusable playbooks, standards, tools, and practices that improve enterprise-wide product capabilities. This is an opportunity to shape how digital products are managed while helping teams deliver measurable value in a highly collaborative, science-driven environment. Embedded product leadership: Embed with complex and strategically important products and teams to strengthen product management practices, accelerate adoption of the digital product operating model, and improve product maturity. Product coaching and capability building: Act as a senior hands-on player-coach for Digital Product Managers and cross-functional teams, developing capabilities in problem framing, discovery, product strategy, roadmapping, OKRs, KPIs, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and value measurement. Direct product management: When a dedicated product manager is not available, temporarily assume product management responsibilities, including shaping product direction, defining outcomes, aligning stakeholders, resolving trade-offs, and supporting roadmap and capacity decisions. Outcome-oriented product strategy: Help teams connect business and enterprise strategy to product outcomes, develop product visions and strategies, improve roadmaps, establish measurable success criteria, and make investment recommendations. Discovery and prioritization: Guide teams in using customer insights, product data, experimentation, business context, feasibility, risk, capacity, and dependencies to make evidence-based product decisions. Cross-functional leadership: Partner with business, technology, engineering, data, design, compliance, quality, operations, and adjacent product teams to clarify roles, decision rights, operating rhythms, dependencies, and expectations. Stakeholder influence: Influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority, communicate product direction and trade-offs clearly, and escalate significant blockers or alignment issues when necessary. Catalyst engagement execution: Lead engagement activities from initial product and team assessment through planning, embedded coaching, adoption measurement, transition, and lessons learned. Continuous improvement: Identify capability gaps, adoption barriers, and recurring product-management challenges, then translate practical learnings into reusable examples, templates, playbooks, standards, and operating practices. Performance measurement: Define and track engagement success measures such as product management capability growth, team adoption, product maturity, measurable product outcomes, and sustained adoption after the engagement concludes. Requirements: Education and experience: Bachelor's degree plus at least 7 years of relevant experience, Master's degree plus 5 years, Doctorate plus 3 years, Associate's degree plus 12 years, or high school diploma/GED plus 14 years in digital product management, product leadership, digital transformation, technology strategy, or a related