What are the responsibilities and job description for the VP of Product Management position at Rubix Recruiting?
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