Position Overview
As the Chief Product Officer (CPO), you will be a key member of our executive team, responsible for defining and executing our product strategy, roadmap, and vision. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our company by leading the product team and ensuring that our products align with our business goals and customer needs. This role requires a visionary leader with a deep understanding of market trends, user-centered design, and a track record of successfully bringing innovative products to market.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear and compelling product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's overall mission and goals.
- Product Roadmap: Create and maintain a product roadmap that outlines the short-term and long-term product development priorities, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities.
- Recommend to the stakeholders product proposals that generate increased revenues and align for sign off.
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing product team, including product managers, designers, and engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Market Research: Stay abreast of industry trends, competitor offerings, and customer feedback to identify new product opportunities and make data-driven decisions.
- Offer effective recommendations for product positioning & pricing to the commercial team.
- Product Development: Conceptualize to design architecture and successful deployment in different client contexts.
- Build the end-to-end product development process, from ideation and design to development, testing, and release, ensuring products are delivered on time and within budget. Determine and suggest the cost of the new product through the process of build and market research.
- User-Centered Design: Champion user-centered design principles, conducting user research and usability testing to ensure products meet user needs and deliver exceptional user experiences.
- Product Metrics: Define and track key product performance metrics, regularly reporting on progress to the executive team and stakeholders.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with other departments, including marketing, sales, and engineering, to ensure seamless product launches and effective go-to-market strategies.
- Product Innovation: Drive innovation within the organization by fostering a culture of experimentation and encouraging new ideas and technologies.
- Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from concept to retirement, making informed decisions on product enhancements, updates, and discontinuations.
- Seamless integration with third party products and utilities.
Qualifications & Expertise required:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, with an MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Proven track record of at least 20+ years of product leadership experience, preferable in a software/product industry.
- Proven track record of deployment interpreting data, analytics and metrics as well as system development with factoring security dimensions at the appropriate stages of product development.
- Strong strategic thinking and the ability to translate vision into actionable plans with a background of being platform agnostic.
- In-depth knowledge of product development processes and methodologies.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to manage and lead high performers.
- A deep understanding of user-centered design principles and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
- Demonstrated capabilities in handling product upgrades.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Proven ability to drive product success in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Ability to build and coach a team including designers, engineers, marketing to ensure the product successfully moves from design to release.
- Experience in optimal resource handling between DevOps and Maintenance teams.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
- Opportunity to shape the future of a rapidly growing company.
- A collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Professional development and growth opportunities.