Description:
The Director of Product Management, Agentic Orchestration, owns that execution: the detailed product decisions that turn validated architecture into reality - what ships first, how tradeoffs get resolved as the system meets real engineering constraints, and how a broad set of product, engineering, and design partners stay aligned as it comes together. Success requires a leader who can go deep enough on technical detail to earn engineering's trust, and explain that same complexity clearly enough to keep leadership and cross-functional partners aligned.
This is an individual-contributor position today, and it calls for proven leadership at a Director level - someone who has already led through ambiguity and cross-functional complexity without relying on formal authority. As the Agentic Orchestration team in Galway continues to grow, this role carries a clear path to people management for the right candidate.
Key Responsibilities:
Cross-Functional Leadership
- You've led through complexity in a highly matrixed organization - setting direction and driving alignment across teams without relying on formal authority.
- You know how to partner with engineering, design, and adjacent product teams to keep a complex initiative moving forward.
- You've influenced roadmaps and priorities well beyond your direct ownership boundaries.
- You've brought a broad set of stakeholders, including teams you didn't lead directly, around a shared plan, and made it stick.
- You communicate execution status, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly enough to move senior leadership to a decision.
Own Product Execution
- You own the detailed product specification for orchestration capabilities as they move from validated architecture to shipped product.
- You make the sequencing and scope calls a complex, multi-system design demands as it meets engineering reality.
- You resolve ambiguous technical and product questions into buildable plans rather than deferring them.
- You've made high-stakes calls on a still-forming system, and stood behind them.
Partner with Engineering
- You work directly and continuously with engineering leadership to evaluate architecture and systems tradeoffs.
- You translate product requirements into specifications engineering can build against with confidence.
- You've helped establish product practices suited to building agentic, AI-driven systems.
Deliver Measurable Outcomes
- You define success measures for orchestration performance, journey resolution, and customer outcomes.
- You build telemetry and validation into major initiatives from the start, not after the fact.
- You evaluate the roadmap's real-world performance and adjust accordingly.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of Product Management experience in enterprise SaaS, AI-powered software, or complex distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience taking a technically complex, multi-team product from architecture through to shipped, production use.
- Proven leadership track record at a Director level or equivalent - demonstrated success leading teams, projects, or initiatives, whether or not through formal management - with the readiness and interest to grow into people management as the team scales.
- High emotional intelligence and a demonstrated ability to work effectively across functions and teams you don't manage.
- Clear, direct communicator who drives a project forward and keeps stakeholders aligned.
- Skilled at navigating technical, business, and team-priority tradeoffs.
- Comfortable running workshops with a range of stakeholders - technical and non-technical, internal and executive.