Head of Product & Platform Strategy

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Code Metal seeks an accomplished product executive to own the platform's strategy, organization, and roadmap in a fast-moving, technically grounded environment. You will drive customer discovery, define investment priorities with Engineering, and partner with Growth and Sales to shape the product narrative and go-to-market.

Reporting to the CEO, you will build a credible product organization, translate complex technical capabilities into scalable offerings, and influence strategic deals with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of B2B technology sales experience
• 5+ years leading scaled product organizations
• Experience building products from deeply technical foundational technology
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and immature org structures
• Highly technical product executive able to understand complex systems
• Comfortable conducting customer discovery and prioritization
• Strong product judgment to distinguish requests and investments
• Commercial mindset with product packaging and selling
• Ability to make tough prioritization decisions
• Experience partnering with Sales to commercialize products

Responsibilities

• Own Code Metal's product strategy, organization, and operating model
• Define product strategy and investment priorities for Code Metal's platform
• Own the direction and evolution of the core product platform and its roadmap
• Identify customer problems with Engineering, develop and validate products, and take them from concept through launch and adoption
• Establish a disciplined customer-discovery process for engineering-led customers
• Make product and engineering tradeoffs across customer commitments, platform investments, technical debt, and strategic opportunities
• Determine product packaging, positioning, and commercialization
• Partner with Growth and Sales on product narratives, use cases, demonstrations, competitive positioning, and technical enablement
• Participate in strategic customer conversations and support Sales with customer requirements and product value
• Serve as the primary product counterpart to Engineering and technical leadership
• Build a high-leverage, technically credible, high-output Product organization
• Report directly to the CEO and work with technical leadership on product direction and sequencing

Job description

Code Metal seeks an accomplished product executive to own the platform's strategy, organization, and roadmap in a fast-moving, technically grounded environment. You will drive customer discovery, define investment priorities with Engineering, and partner with Growth and Sales to shape the product narrative and go-to-market.

Reporting to the CEO, you will build a credible product organization, translate complex technical capabilities into scalable offerings, and influence strategic deals with