Head of Product

What we’re looking for

We are seeking our first Head of Product. As a member of Nexleaf’s leadership team, you will build out a product management discipline and oversee our product portfolio, including our core product ColdTrace. You will manage and mentor a small team of product managers and determine additional resourcing needs, including research and UI/UX while developing, driving, and executing our product strategy. You and your team will partner with internal and external stakeholders to conceptualize and deliver user-centric products, features, and experiences that empower our customers to make data-driven decisions to improve public health outcomes in their countries.

What you’ll do

• Develop and lead a high-performing product management team, including providing ongoing mentorship and assessing resourcing needs
• Manage engineering, with the head of engineering reporting in to you
• Own product strategy; partnering with product and leadership teams to prioritize and refine our product portfolio, including developing a focused roadmap and prioritization framework to inform decision-making
• Build alignment and focus around our product strategy across the organization
• Refine our product development process and work cross functionally to execute it, inviting continuous improvement throughout
• Partner with our Business and Advocacy teams to ensure customer data and feedback is leveraged to inform sales strategies and product solutions
• Ensure that engineers are set up for success with detailed requirements and guidance

Requirements

Your qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, with 1+ years experience leading a product management team
• Experience with early stage organizations and building out product disciplines preferred
• Exceptional communication and analytical skills
• Experience with agile software development methodologies

Why we’ll hire you

• You are a natural leader and mentor, committed to developing team members, influencing others, and amplifying the talent around you
• You have a track record of inspiring a culture of decision making rooted in data and customer centricity
• You possess strong product skills, intuition, and customer empathy and are passionate about building great products that delight end users
• You are biased toward action, possess a track record as an exceptional communicator and collaborator, and have a knack for simplifying and disambiguating complex concepts
• You don’t hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on when that’s what the situation calls for
• You are excited about building and scaling a product management function at a purpose-driven organization

Benefits

• Amazing start-up culture that’s purpose-driven and highly collaborative
• Fast-paced, high performing team focused on learning and getting better every day
• Benefits including health, retirement and generous PTO (14 holidays, 3 weeks vacation, 1-2 week year-end office closure)
• Flexible work hours
• 80 hours of parental leave
• Pet inclusive sick leave
• 401k employer matching