Director, Product Management, Platform

At NiCE, we don’t limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We’re ambitious. We’re game changers. And we play to win. We set the highest standards and execute beyond them. And if you’re like us, we can offer you the ultimate career opportunity that will light a fire within you. Do you love creating strategies and vision that can take a diverse portfolio of products and make them all run like a well-oiled machine? If so then NiCE is the place for you. This Director of Product Management will lead the strategy, vision, and execution for the CXone platform — the shared foundation of services that accelerate application teams' time to market. As the contact center industry undergoes its most significant transformation through AI and automation, this leader will define how AI-native capabilities are prioritized, built, and delivered across the platform. Managing a team of Product Managers, they will own the platform roadmap, drive cross-functional alignment, and ensure the platform evolves to meet the demands of a rapidly changing AI landscape. A Typical Day Might Include the Following: Defining and driving the platform strategy and AI enablement roadmap — including AI-aware extensions to shared services such as the API facade, security and compliance, telemetry, tenant management, and billing framework — to accelerate application teams' time to market for AI-powered features. Leading rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept initiatives with engineering to validate platform service concepts — testing assumptions on scalability, integration patterns, and developer experience before committing to full roadmap investment. Developing and prioritizing product roadmaps and cross-solution backlogs , balancing market demand, customer needs, and business objectives while managing cost margins for a multi- million dollar solution set. Driving spec-driven product development — authoring platform API contracts, service specifications, and integration guides that serve as the primary handoff artifact between product and engineering, ensuring alignment before development begins. Collaborating with platform engineering, security, and application product teams to define requirements, integration patterns, and governance standards for AI services built on or consumed through the platform. Monitoring platform service performance metrics relevant to AI workloads — including API gateway throughput, service reliability, and usage telemetry — to ensure SLA commitments are met for dependent application teams. Driving responsible AI standards at the platform layer — including data privacy controls, audit logging, and compliance guardrails — so that application teams inherit governance by default rather than solving it independently. Developing the AI fluency of the platform product management team — building shared understanding of how AI workloads stress platform services differently, and ensuring PMs can critically evaluate requests from application teams building AI-powered features. Building and maintaining key relationships with strategic partners and representing N i CE CXone as an industry thought leader at customer sites, trade shows, and industry events. Partnering with sales and go-to-market teams to support opportunities, commu nic ate platform capabilities, and respond to customer requirements and escalations. Providing leadership through coaching, feedback, development goals, and performance management ; responsible for recruiting and hiring within the department. Reporting on performance metrics and adjusting priorities, staffing, and workloads to ensure efficient operation in alignment with departmental goals and objectives . To Land This Gig You'll Need: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science , Business Information Systems, Marketing, or similar field preferred, or equivalent experience ; MBA would be a great addition . 12+ years of product management experience with formal ... (truncated, view full listing at source)