Product Director – Higher Education, School Boards
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Product Director owning Unit4 ERP strategy for higher education and K-12 institutions. Translating sector, finance, compliance, and AI needs into scalable products.
Responsibilities:
- Own the Higher Education and K-12 product vision, strategy, and multi-horizon roadmap
- Align the product roadmap with Unit4's platform strategy and commercial growth targets
- Lead a prioritized product backlog with dedicated engineering capacity
- Define outcomes, success metrics, release plans, and quality criteria
- Translate sector knowledge into product requirements, opportunity sizing, and build-vs-partner decisions
- Define industry-specific solution blueprints, reference configurations, and pre-built templates
- Work with horizontal product teams across finance, HR, procurement, and research management
- Partner on launch readiness, pricing, packaging, and field enablement
- Engage strategic customers and the HE Industry Board to validate roadmap direction and co-innovate
- Ensure regulatory, accessibility, research-compliance, and provincial requirements are reflected in the roadmap
- Monitor competitors including Ellucian, Workday, Microsoft, and Tribal Group
- Work with partners to extend value for Higher Education and K-12 customers
- Own feature outcomes and track adoption, usage, and customer impact after launch
- Serve as the internal authority on the Higher Education and K-12 verticals for product, marketing, analyst relations, and pre-sales teams
Requirements:
- Proven product management experience building enterprise software, ERP, finance systems, or enterprise SaaS for higher education institutions or K-12 school boards
- Shipped products used by higher education finance teams, research administrators, or school board operations staff
- Deep working knowledge of higher education finance, including research grant accounting, fund and restricted-fund accounting, full economic costing, endowments, and tuition revenue models
- Working knowledge of provincial ministry funding formulas, trustee governance and board reporting, school-level budget delegation, and collective agreement administration
- Understanding of student lifecycle interfaces, including financial aid, tuition management, and student information system integrations
- Understanding of AI's impact on research enterprises and administrative operations, including responsible and governance-compliant product decisions
- Commercial orientation with understanding of ARR, win rate, and customer retention
- Ability to communicate with CFOs, VPs of Finance, Superintendents of Business, and senior academic and school board leadership
- Experience in product management for enterprise SaaS platforms
- Deep understanding of professional services business models, including project-based delivery, utilization, billing, scheduling, and compliance
- Ability to influence without authority and work cross-functionally in a matrixed environment
- Proven ability to translate complex industry needs into scalable product solutions
- Excellent communication, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Desirable: experience with ERP or PSA platforms
- Desirable: familiarity with mid-market services firms and operational challenges
- Desirable: familiarity with AI-driven or data-rich product environments
- May require security clearance and background checks for customer projects and access to sensitive customer data
Benefits:
- Flexible Leave Paid Time Off policy
- Remote working opportunities
- Global Wellbeing Days
- Growth opportunities
- Tools and guidance for professional development
- Talented colleagues, role models and mentors
- Sustainability initiatives through the Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy and Act4Good programme
- Safe and inclusive working environment
- Employee Resource Groups open to all
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