VP of Product Management

Rubix Recruiting; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubix Recruiting seeks a VP of Product Management to lead the product strategy and execution in a fast-moving environment. You will own the product roadmap, define requirements, and ensure alignment across engineering, design, marketing, and leadership.

You will drive metrics, manage lifecycle, and mentor the product organization while validating market opportunities and shaping the vision for both B2B and consumer-facing products.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience.
• Experience owning products with 500k+ users or greater than $1B in transactions.
• Experience owning B2B products is a plus.

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 align unit objectives with the company plan.
• Work with the leadership team to define detailed metrics.
• Act as the conduit between the product team and the leadership team.
• Participate in daily standups and monitor team cadence; unblock issues.
• Sell product vision internally and externally; drive employee participation and input.
• Proactively solicit customer feedback and anticipate future needs.
• Create and manage a detailed product roadmap tied to business goals and revenue projections.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Roadmapping

Metrics

Stakeholder mgmt

Hiring

Cross-functional

Job description

• 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

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