Director, Technical Product Management

Care.com

• $200K — $225K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of product management or related experience.
  • Proven leader of cross-functional teams with problem-solving skills.
  • Expertise in developing minimum viable products and optimizing existing offerings.
  • Strong capability in defining product vision, roadmaps, and measuring outcomes.
  • Data-driven decision maker using both internal and external analytics.
  • Experience with vendor API integrations.
  • Understanding of safety challenges in trust and safety operations.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Map customer journeys to enhance support experiences.
  • Automate manual trust and safety processes, including screenings and identity verification.
  • Collaborate with various teams to create user-focused solutions.
  • Conduct market research on background checks and content moderation.
  • Define product benchmarks and develop impact telemetry dashboards.
  • Prioritize roadmap and project deliverables in a fast-changing environment.
  • Initiate quality improvements across teams, regardless of direct responsibility.
  • Establish processes for timely end-to-end product delivery.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage.
  • Life and disability insurance.
  • Generous 401K employer matching program.
  • Paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
  • Annual bonuses and other incentives.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Director of Technical Product Management, you'll have a specialized focus on trust and safety. In this role, you will lead all aspects of our core technology product teams, ensuring that our platform remains a secure and trustworthy place for families to find household caregivers and, for caregivers to find screened families as employers. As a leader on our Platform Product team you will drive the development and implementation of solutions that enhance background checks, continuous monitoring, payment fraud detection, and identity verification processes. The ideal candidate is data-driven, acts with a sense of curiosity and urgency, and has a background in engineering..

What You'll be Working on:
  • Mapping the customer journeys on both sides of the marketplace to identify the experiences that drive customers to seek support from our customer-facing teams
  • Identifying and realizing opportunities for automating manual processes related to trust and safety operations, including background checks, continuous monitoring, payments fraud detection, and identity verification
  • Partnering across operations, policy, engineering, business intelligence, marketing, legal, and other product teams to develop solutions that reflect user needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility
  • Conducting market research and competitive analysis to stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in content moderation, background checks, and identity verification tools
  • Defining product benchmarks and leading the development of dashboards that will provide telemetry into our impact on customer safety, experience, and retention
  • Continuously prioritizing your roadmap and project deliverables in an environment that changes significantly in short periods of time
  • Taking initiative to drive quality improvements across different teams, even when you are not directly responsible for their features
  • Setting up processes that will ensure your ability to deliver end-to-end products on-time in an extremely fast-paced environment


Qualifications
  • 10+ years of product management or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, solve complex problems, and produce high-quality results.
  • Experience with techniques to develop the right minimum viable products, as well as optimizing existing products.
  • Strong experience defining product vision & roadmaps, driving execution activities, measuring results.
  • A data-driven approach, with the ability to make decisions based on internal and external data.
  • Experience with vendor API integrations.
  • Understanding of the challenges in delivering a safe and trustworthy product with minimal friction for good actors; preference for experience with content moderation, background checks, payments fraud detection, and identity verification.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams to solve complex problems and produce high-quality results across multi-platforms (Desktop, Mobile Web, iOS/Android Mobile Applications).
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
  • A strong communicator and team collaborator, with great written and verbal skills.
  • Experience working for a tech company, preferably a consumer-oriented or marketplace service.
  • Local to Dallas Texas or open to relocating is highlighy preferred


Additional Information

Salary Range: $200,000 - $225,000 - The base salary range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the national salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Care.com's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Care.com provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a generous 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).

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