"Head of Product Strategy"

Head of Product Strategy

Company: Dartmouth College

Job Location: Hanover, NH

Category: IT Manager/Director

Type: Full-Time

Posting date: 02/12/2026

Open Until Filled: Yes

Position Number: 1129531

Hiring Range Minimum: Please Inquire.

Hiring Range Maximum: Please Inquire.

Union Type: Not a Union Position

SEIU Level: Not an SEIU Position

FLSA Status: Exempt

Employment Category: Regular Full Time

Scheduled Months per Year: 12

Scheduled Hours per Week: 40

Remote Work Eligibility?: Hybrid

Position Purpose:

The Head of Product Strategy is a technical strategist and product-oriented leader who helps shape how technology and AI show up across our student experience, programs, and internal operations. This person will partner closely with Executive Director to make informed decisions about what we build, buy, and integrate.

Required Qualifications - Education and Yrs Exp: Bachelors or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Qualifications - Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• 4-7 years of experience in product management, product strategy, or a similar role at an EdTech, education-adjacent, or mission-driven organization.
• Strong systems thinker who enjoys mapping how tools, data, and people fit together and spotting gaps or redundancies.
• Comfortable translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating decisions, and building consensus.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating SaaS tools or platforms, running pilots, and supporting rollout or change-management in an education or learner-focused context
• Curious and up-to-date on AI capabilities and limitations, with a practical mindset about where AI can add real value for students and staff.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Location: Northeast-based strongly preferred; hybrid or remote-friendly

Description:

• Serve as a strategic partner, helping define and evolve the technology vision, priorities, and roadmap across programs and operations.
• Evaluate and prioritize technology initiatives, making clear tradeoffs and sequencing decisions based on impact, feasibility, and student experience.
• Act as a bridge across stakeholders (internal IT, in-house builders, leadership, and students), ensuring alignment and clear communication
• Assess current tools and platforms (LMS, data systems, communication tools, AI assistants, etc.), diagnose what is and is not working, and recommend concrete paths forward.
• Lead our AI strategy: scan the tech/AI landscape, identify relevant opportunities, and translate them into practical, ethical use cases that enhance coaching, programming, and student support.
• Design and support implementation plans for new tools and workflows, including pilots, change-management, and adoption strategies tailored to students and staff.
• Define and track success metrics for technology and AI initiatives, using data and feedback to iterate and improve over time.

Percentage Of Time: 100%

• Demonstrates professionalism and collegiality through actions, interactions, and communications with others appropriate to an environment that is welcoming to all.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Special Instructions to Applicants: This job posting is not accepting external applications at this time. Dartmouth College has a Tobacco-Free Policy. Smoking and the use of tobacco-based products (including smokeless tobacco) are prohibited in all facilities, grounds, vehicles or other areas owned, operated or occupied by Dartmouth College with no exceptions. For details, please see our policy. https://policies.dartmouth.edu/policy/tobacco-free-policy

Additional Instructions: Dartmouth has retained Riviera Partners to support this recruitment. Confidential inquiries, applications, and nominations should be submitted by email to Matt Stravitz at mstravitz@rivierapartners.com. More information can be found here: https://sutrox.riviapps.com/ViewerX/Main?DocumentId=133002&uuid=698469dd-f200-4347-93d7-2b1cd2cec172