Product Growth Director (1 of 4 Job Openings)

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$153K/yr – $170K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Owns multi‑line P&L and leads growth through cross‑functional product initiatives, from concept to launch and growth optimization, by prioritizing market opportunities, building robust business cases, and aligning stakeholders.

  • Owns P&L across multiple lines of business
  • Drives cross-functional alignment to launch and grow offerings
  • Prioritizes opportunities and secures investment

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assesses the enterprise’s portfolio of products to identify underleveraged assets and translate them into high-value growth opportunities, developing clear hypotheses on how to extend their reach into consumer-facing or market-facing offerings that drive measurable adoption, engagement, and revenue.
  • Evaluate market trends, customer needs, and competitive dynamics to prioritize opportunities that maximize return on investment, ensuring focus on initiatives with the strongest strategic alignment and potential for scalable impact.
  • Develops robust business cases, including value propositions, target audiences, and expected outcomes, to secure stakeholder alignment and investment support.
  • Owns the profit and loss (P&L) across multiple lines of business, including forecasting, budgeting, pricing strategy, margin management, and investment decisions.
  • Articulates clear product concepts, use cases, and experience flows that connect internal capabilities to real customer value, ensuring offerings are practical, relevant, and easy to adopt.
  • Drives cross-functional alignment to move ideas quickly from concept to launch and beyond by optimizing post launch and defining growth strategies or sunset recommendation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, Finance, Product Management, or a related field; MBA preferred.
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in product management, product growth, business strategy, commercialization, business development, or a related discipline.
  • Proven experience identifying, evaluating, and scaling new product, service, or market growth opportunities that drive customer adoption, revenue growth, and business value.
  • Demonstrated success developing business cases, go-to-market strategies, value propositions, and investment recommendations that secure stakeholder support and funding.
  • Strong expertise in market analysis, competitive intelligence, customer research, and growth strategy development, with the ability to translate insights into actionable opportunities.
  • Experience managing P&L responsibilities, including forecasting, budgeting, pricing strategy, margin optimization, and investment decision-making across multiple products or business lines.
  • Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, technology, marketing, operations, and business stakeholders, to drive initiatives from concept through launch and growth optimization.
  • Excellent leadership, strategic thinking, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of accelerating execution, influencing priorities, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
  • AARP will not sponsor an employment visa for this position at this time.

Preferred

  • MBA preferred.

Benefits

  • AARP offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k); 100% company-funded pension plan; health, dental, and vision plans; life insurance; paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave; performance-based and peer-based recognition and tuition reimbursement.
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What we do might surprise you!AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social mission organization with a membership of nearly 38 million. Our aim is to disrupt outdated stereotypes about aging, turn goals and dreams into real possibilities, and fight for the issues that matter most to people 50-plus, their families and communities. Our social impact work in health security, financial resilience, and personal fulfillment is at the heart of what we do. With offices in every state plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, we live and work in the communities we serve. We listen to what people need and want, and offer programs, services and trusted information that are directly relevant to them. State offices also work with our national office to amplify our members’ voices at the local and federal levels to help empower people 50 and above to choose how they live and work as they age. From being a force for positive change to producing the nation’s largest-circulation magazine – the full scope of what we do might surprise you! That’s why people who are excited by unique opportunities and galvanized by meaningful challenges come to work at AARP.

Founded in 1958
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6.5K employees (823 in marketing)
72% recommend to a friend
72% CEO approval

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$4.6M
Traffic Source Mix
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23.5%
Direct
71.1%
Referral
3.8%
Social
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Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
707 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
7.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
13

Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 7 years ago

Funding History

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