Director, Product Marketing

Director, Product Marketing

The Director, Product Marketing, is a critical leadership role within Pfister Faucets and a key member of the Plumbing Leadership Team. Reporting directly to the VP & General Manager, Plumbing, this role serves as the business leader for the Pfister product portfolio and is responsible for portfolio strategy, category performance, innovation, commercialization, lifecycle management, pricing, profitability, and team leadership. This position leads a team of 5 Product Marketing and Product Management professionals and partners closely with Sales, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Finance, Quality, Consumer Care, Brand Marketing, Channel Marketing, and Creative teams to drive sustainable growth, margin expansion, market share gains, and portfolio productivity.
The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, financial acumen, customer and consumer insight, disciplined execution, and strong people leadership. This leader must be able to translate market trends, customer needs, competitive dynamics, and business performance into clear product strategies, action plans, and profitable growth initiatives. Product Marketing is responsible for generating product ideas, defining business cases, prioritizing portfolio opportunities, and aligning stakeholders, while helping manage the formal stage-gate development process.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Portfolio Strategy & Business Leadership
Innovation & New Product Strategy
Product Lifecycle Management
Pricing & Profitability
Market Intelligence & Customer Insights
Commercialization & Go-to-Market Leadership
Cross-Functional Leadership
People Leadership
Education and Experience Profile Required:
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive experience in product management, product marketing, category management, marketing, or related commercial leadership roles.
5+ years of direct people leadership experience.
Demonstrated success leading product portfolios with business, margin, and/or P&L accountability.
Experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and commercialization plans.
Strong financial acumen with experience managing revenue, margin, pricing, investment, and ROI decisions.
Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
Required Core Competencies:
Strategic Mindset
Business Insight
Drives Vision & Purpose
Customer Focus
Builds Effective Teams
Drives Results
Decision Quality
Collaborates
Develops Talent
Manages Complexity
Courage
Ensures Accountability
Communicates Effectively
Required Technical Skills:
Advanced portfolio and product lifecycle management
Advanced pricing and profitability management
Advanced financial and business analysis
Advanced market, consumer, customer, and competitive insights interpretation
Advanced project and program management
Advanced Power BI and data analytics capability
Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills
Executive-level presentation, communication, and storytelling skills
Work Environment:
Working conditions are normal for an office environment.
Hybrid office environment based in Lake Forest, California: Tues/Wed/Thurs in-office; Mon/Fri remote.
Domestic and international travel approximately 15-25% for customer meetings, supplier/partner meetings, consumer research, business planning, and trade shows.
Pay Range: $163,810 to $257,415. This "base salary range" is a reasonable estimate for this position at the time of posting. Pay within each range is based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, to primary work job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location. ASSA ABLOY conducts regular review of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.