VP of Product Management

Rubix Recruiting; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubix Recruiting is seeking a VP of Product Management to lead strategy, roadmaps, and cross-functional execution. You will ensure the company builds, ships, and supports the right product, aligning with revenue and growth goals.

You will shape detailed requirements, define metrics with the leadership team, and drive product launches. A passion for customer insights and market trends will guide prioritization and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• Produce business case(s) to show viability of product(s).
• Catalog, prioritize, and get consensus on feature requests pre and post MVP.
• Lead UI design phase, including managing potential consultants and internal reviews.
• Deliver requirements to implementation teams; field any questions.
• Ability and knowledge to push back when necessary.
• Actively participate in hiring process around product and company needs.
• Prior experience leading product management teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• 8+ years of product management experience.
• Experience owning products with 500k+ users or greater than $1B in transactions.
• Experience owning B2B products.

Responsibilities

• Ensure company as a whole is building, shipping, and supporting the right product.
• Holistic understanding of the product and how it makes the company successful.
• Shape, define, and articulate product requirements and vision across functions to meet objectives.
• Work with leadership to define detailed metrics.
• Act as conduit between product and leadership teams.
• Participate in daily product standups and monitor team cadence; help unblock issues.
• Sell product vision internally and externally to drive buy-in and customer adoption.
• Solicit customer feedback and anticipate future wants and needs.
• Create and manage a detailed product roadmap tied to business goals and revenue projections.
• Prioritize new features and triage high-level bugs.
• Tie new products into the company’s overall plan and drive launches.
• Manage product life cycle across early-stage to mature products.
• Identify opportunities for development based on market/data and present ideas to leadership.
• Keep pulse on market and competitive landscape.
• Create and socialize key metrics and reporting to track product success.

Skills

Leadership

Roadmapping

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Hiring involvement

Metrics & analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Market analysis

Job description

VP of Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Ensure company as a whole is building, shipping, and supporting the right product

• Holistic understanding of the product and how it makes the company successful
• Shape, define, and articulate product requirements and vision both verbally and in product documentation, melding requirements across various functions and teams to make sure individual unit objectives are met and in line with the company’s overall plan
• Work with the leadership team to define detailed metrics
• Act as the conduit between the product team and the leadership team
• Participate when needed on daily product standups and monitor team cadence. Help unblock issues
• Sell product vision both internally and externally. Company buy-in is just as important as customer adoption. Drive employee participation and input
• Proactively solicit customer feedback and understand current customer wants and needs
• Predict future wants and needs before customers are even aware they have them
• Create and manage a detailed product roadmap tied to concrete business goals and revenue projections. Prioritize new features and triage high-level bugs
• Tie multiple new products into the company’s overall plan, helping drive product launches through collaboration
• Manage product life cycle, and internal and external constituents; ability to do this equally well in the early-stage and through product maturity (i.e. product build at scale)
• Identify and assess opportunities for product development or extensions based on market and data driven analysis; present those ideas to various levels within the organization
• Keep finger on pulse of the market and be able to anticipate industry shifts before they happen. This includes an understanding of competitors’ strengths and weaknesses
• Create and socialize key metrics and reporting to track product success; ability to pivot product. Protect the user experience in the process

Requirements:

• Produce business case(s) to show viability of product(s)
• Catalog, prioritize, and get consensus on feature requests pre and post MVP
• Lead UI design phase, including managing potential consultants and holding internal reviews
• Deliver requirements to implementation team(s). Field any questions that arise
• Ability and knowledge to push back when necessary
• Actively participate in the hiring process around product and company needs
• Prior experience leading product management teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• 8+ years of product management experience
• Experience owning products with 500k+ users or greater than $1B in transactions.

• Experience owning B2B products
• Experience with consumer-facing products a plus
• Team leader willing to get in the weeds while maintaining sight of company’s strategic vision