Chief Product Officer - SaaS

Chief Product Officer

As the company's Chief Product Officer, you must be part visionary, part believer and part pragmatists. You should be invigorated by lofty ambitious goals, but not distracted by them. A deep understanding of our long-term mission and an obsession with leading the charge to map out the steps of the journey should be at the heart of all you do to build an amazing product.

Partner with the CEO, Engineering and other key stakeholders to bring our product vision to life.

Role Specifics :

- You will act as the primary vision partner with the CEO to define and execute the overall product story, roadmap, experience and success milestones

- Drive the definition, prioritization and execution of product strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders and business team executives

- Partner with strong engineering and analytics counterparts, acting as a contributor and thought leader to drive the successful execution of the product vision

- Coach, inspire and mentor a team of product managers and designers to develop a passionate and inspired customer-driven product culture

- Own product results with P&L responsibility, including on-time release, usability, customer satisfaction and business critical metrics. Foster them back into the product development process

- Install processes and best practices to create a world class product management and design organization

- Lead how the company will deliver product: Set the pace and principles for product managers, data, design and engineering surrounding product management and delivery.

Who You Are :

- 12+ years of successful product management experience with 5+ years in a leadership capacity.

- Experience at having partnered successfully with founders and/or CEOs who themselves also have a strong product background and vision.

- Deep understanding of SaaS models and HR Tech products.

- Strong entrepreneurial drive either as a founder or product leader with experience in hyper-growth businesses at least twice.

- Demonstrated experience conceiving, crafting and implementing impactful product roadmaps with an emphasis on expansion into creative new product verticals.

- An ability to lead, influence, and work collaboratively across the organization with cross-functional operational prowess.

- A demonstrated ability to understand the ROI of various product opportunities and prioritize those that have the greatest impact on the business.

- Experience successfully assessing and handling trade-offs involving features, cost, design, schedule, pricing and customer experience.

- An ability to coach and mentor passionate product managers.

- A true growth-stage leader who can balance creativity and innovation with the grit necessary to make it happen.