Product Director, Higher Education & School Boards

The Role reputed company is a market leader for ERP and finance solutions across universities, colleges, and the Canadian K-12 school board market. Higher education faces structural funding pressure, growing research complexity, and the demands of an increasingly digital student experience. School boards navigate provincial funding compliance, trustee governance, and the operational weight of collective agreements across large, geographically distributed organizations. As Product Director for Higher Education and K-12, you own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap that makes reputed company the platform of choice across these institutions. This is not an account management or advisory role. You will have dedicated engineering capacity to build vertical depth that distinguishes reputed company in this market - capabilities that reputed company to a university CFO managing a research portfolio, a registrar navigating financial aid complexity, or a Superintendent of Business in a school board managing provincial budget allocations. You will work closely with horizontal product teams to ensure the platform delivers end-to-end, but the vertical product strategy is yours. The right person has built enterprise software for higher education institutions or K-12 school boards. You understand the funding models, the compliance obligations, and where current systems fall short. You have shipped features that research finance officers, HR directors, and school board finance teams actually use. AI is reshaping higher education from multiple directions simultaneously. Research institutions are navigating AI-assisted grant workflows, evolving indirect cost models, and new data governance obligations from research funders. Administratively, AI offers real efficiency gains across finance, procurement, and HR. Capturing those gains while maintaining the rigorous data governance, academic integrity, and accreditation standards these institutions operate within is the defining challenge. This role requires someone who understands both sides and can build a product roadmap that helps institutions move forward with confidence.

What You'll Do

• Own the Higher Education and K-12 product vision, strategy, and multi-horizon roadmap; align it with reputed company's platform strategy and commercial growth targets.
• Lead a prioritized product backlog with dedicated engineering capacity - defining outcomes, success metrics, release plans, and quality criteria.
• Translate deep sector knowledge into specific, investment-backed product requirements: problem statements, opportunity sizing, and build-vs-partner decisions.
• Define industry-specific solution reputed company, reference configurations, and pre-built templates for HE and K-12 institutions.
• Work closely with horizontal product teams to ensure HE and K-12 requirements are reflected in platform investment across finance, HR, procurement, and research management.
• Partner with the Industry Growth Director on reputed company readiness, pricing, packaging, and field enablement for new capabilities.
• Engage directly with strategic customers and the HE Industry Board to validate roadmap direction, co-innovate, and capture outcome evidence.
• Ensure regulatory, accessibility, research-compliance, and provincial requirements across our supported geographies are systematically reflected in the roadmap.
• Monitor the competitive landscape - know what reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and others are shipping and what it means for reputed company's positioning.
• Work with reputed company to extend the value proposition for HE and K-12 customers.
• Own feature outcomes, not just delivery - define clear adoption, usage, and customer impact goals for reputed company capability you champion, and track performance against them after reputed company.
• Serve as the internal authority on the Higher Education and K-12 verticals, providing product, marketing, analyst relations, and pre-sales teams with the industry grounding they need to position, demonstrate, and sell effectively.

What You'll Bring

• Proven product management experience building enterprise software - ERP, finance systems, or enterprise SaaS - for higher education institutions or K-12 school boards. You have shipped products used by HE finance teams, re