Director, Product Portfolio & Growth

Risepoint Holdings LLC

Job Overview

Location

US - Remote

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• We are seeking a Director, Product Portfolio & Growth Strategy to join our Product Strategy team and play a key role shaping the future of higher education by identifying growth opportunities, uncovering market insights, and developing innovative solutions that drive success for our university partners.
• Working at the intersection of education, workforce needs, and market demand, you'll transform data and insights into actionable recommendations that influence portfolio decisions, drive product growth, and expand access to career-connected learning.
• In this role, you will turn market intelligence, competitive insights, and partner goals into recommendations, including business cases, narratives, and go-to-market and launch plans.
• Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Marketing and Strategic Initiatives, you will collaborate closely with internal and cross-functional teams and with university and employer partners to bring high-impact, workforce-relevant offerings to life—driving meaningful outcomes for both Risepoint and the partners we serve.
• Design and deliver executive-level product solutions and strategies for internal and partner audiences.
• Synthesize data, research, and stakeholder inputs into structured problem-solving frameworks, persuasive narratives, and actionable recommendations that clearly communicate the vision, rationale, tradeoffs, and expected outcomes.
• Develop presentations, reports, and decision-support materials that demonstrate analytical acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence senior-level audiences.
• Conduct partner or program family specific analysis to assess performance, market fit, and competitive positioning for new opportunities and identify optimization and growth opportunities across existing and new programs, leveraging market research outputs, internal data, and/or expertise.
• In partnership with internal team and other Risepoint stakeholders, utilize a systematic approach for monitoring market and product trends, competitor offerings, and emerging innovations across higher education and workforce development, including new markets, audiences, and growth pathways.
• Leverage insights to recommend programs, approaches, and adjustments.
• Collaborate with internal teams to translate and define go-to-market plans, sales enablement resources that support activation for new and optimized portfolios and products.
• Coordinate with cross-functional leaders to ensure smooth handoff from recommendations to launch to activation.
• Define, monitor, and report on KPIs and performance for new launches, pilots, and portfolio initiatives, capturing insights and learnings to inform ongoing optimization and future execution efforts.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of higher education experience in product marketing, strategy consulting, product strategy, or higher education/workforce development.
• Experience with innovation in the higher education space essential.
• Working with product design, the Training & Development space, workforce education, adult learning markets also desirable.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a dynamic and growing education technology company.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Skills & Technologies

Remote

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About Risepoint Holdings LLC

Risepoint is a private equity firm focused on acquiring and growing lower-middle-market companies in North America. It partners with founder-owned businesses in sectors such as business services, niche manufacturing, distribution, and specialty consumer products, providing capital, strategic guidance, and operational expertise to accelerate growth and improve performance. The firm pursues long-term value creation through buy-and-build strategies, operational improvements, and add-on acquisitions, aiming to scale portfolio companies while preserving their core culture and management teams.

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