VP of Product Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a VP of Product to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Represent the customer by building impactful, personal relationships, championing them and bringing their voice into the product creation process;
- Work with sales and marketing to enable the sales and go to market strategy according the roadmap;
- Own our KPI’s, metrics and acquisition numbers inside and out and be prepared to discuss growth objectives at the drop of a hat;
- Own the delivery and clear messaging of strategy and goals to Product teams and ensuring delivery against them;
- Engage directly, where appropriate, with clients and support commercial efforts;
- Keep abreast of product trends and explore opportunities for product innovation to ensure a best in class product experience;
- Lead and define product mission, strategy and management practices at a leadership and business level in a period of critical business growth;
- Define and implement working practices for Product Management as a function and approach to engagement with other functions;
- Define the overall product vision with founders and own the resulting product roadmap in partnership with the executive team;
- As a member of the management team, contribute to the overall business strategy. Aid in the identification of new opportunities;
- Develop a numbers-driven product operations function that can focus the board and management on where we are and should be spending our R&D money;
- Continuously drive process development: improvement in ideation, conceptualization, implementation and qualification of new features;
- Look beyond where the market is today, and ensure that the company maintains a competitive advantage;
- Champion the user experience and promote great design practices;
- As the team starts scaling, hire and mentor great product managers and product designers to build a world class team.
Requirements:
- Proven experience growing and developing product teams (ideally from 5 to 10 and beyond);
- ML and AI: Experience employing ML and AI around and embedded in products;
- Defining platform growth KPIs to inform investment decisions;
- Ideally, experience in modern SaaS software companies;
- Ideally, experience dealing with SKUs or products that have data challenges and opportunities;
- Complexity: has led the development of complex products with a broad range of competing priorities;
- Domain: B2B Software (Enterprise and/or SME);
- Leadership: Build, motivate and retain a high performing, flexible product team capable of delivering best-in-class product;
- Still technical: Strong commercial awareness underpinned by product and technical expertise;
- Strategic: will be a good adviser to the leadership team, will demonstrate good market insights (customers, competitors and partners);
- Strong on voice of the customer (listens well to customers and is able to synthesize and validate feedback);
- Deep analytical skills and demonstrable track record of a data-driven approach to product management;
- Strong ability to collaborate with C-level executives and work collaboratively with a driven leadership team;
- Familiarity and comfort with data, data science including the ability to use data to analyse and monitor product KPI metrics;
- Ability to weigh competing priorities, manage trade-offs of a scaling growth company and near term contracts with long term vision.