Product Director, Higher Education & School Boards

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the Higher Education and K-12 product vision, strategy and multi-horizon roadmap, aligned with Unit4'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 blueprints, 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
• ▹Partner with the Industry Growth Director on launch readiness, pricing, packaging and field enablement for new capabilities
• ▹Engage directly with strategic customers and the HE Industry Board to validate roadmap direction and co-innovate
• ▹Ensure regulatory, accessibility, research-compliance and provincial requirements are systematically reflected in the roadmap
• ▹Monitor the competitive landscape, including Ellucian, Workday, Microsoft and Tribal Group

Requirements

• ▹Experience building enterprise software for higher education institutions or K-12 school boards
• ▹Understanding of funding models and compliance obligations, and where current systems fall short
• ▹Track record of shipping features that research finance officers, HR directors and school board finance teams actually use

Soft skills

About the company

Unit4 is a market leader for ERP and finance solutions across universities, colleges and the Canadian K-12 school board market.