Head of Product

If you are a strong Product leader experienced at defining, articulating, and executing on product strategy that delights users while driving network effects, we’d like to talk with you!

We’ll want you to be successful at managing and growing high-performing product teams, assembling effective cross-functional teams, and constantly striving to improve how we execute. As the Head of Product, you will closely partner with our CEO to define and shape the product strategy that will drive exponential user growth.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Develop, articulate, and execute on a product strategy that will scale Flipboard’s user base by expanding our communities.
• Serve as the ambassador of Product strategy responsible for communication in forums including company all hands, board presentations, leadership team meetings. Create the right artifacts and communication channels so that every employee understands what we are working on and why we are working on it.
• Define and balance how we develop and nurture our user base as we work to make the product appealing to new audiences.

Team Development

• Build and nurture our product team by coaching, mentoring, and guiding their career development to ensure they are motivated, optimistic and empowered.
• Develop a PM career architecture that provides clear growth opportunities for aspiring team members, developing their knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Work cross-functionally and help partner organizations understand the levers we have at our disposal to scale our user growth.

Execution/Impact

• Deliver organic user growth from network effects.
• Build and nurture products that our users are passionate about using.
• Own the full product lifecycle of definition, design, development and deployment in an agile startup environment with a bias to action.

Process/Cadence

• Develop a planning process that involves and incorporates the whole company, and results in exciting, clear plans that align to company goals and that everyone knows.
• Establish a culture of excellence in product and design through a feedback driven environment where excellence is achieved through rapid learning, reflection and iteration.
• Ensure that metrics and data inform product development and that we are measuring the right data to grow our business and judge our efforts. Establish a culture of accountability around shipping products, with well defined, measurable goals and a consistent understanding of the pace of development and iteration.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience

• Entrepreneurial spirit with a track record of building and leading high functioning product teams successful at scaling user growth
• Passion for the Flipboard mission to inform and inspire work, life, and play through our content platform.
• A broad functional knowledge and organizational understanding and a jack of all trades who understands technical detail plus user and industry trends.
• Work cross functionally with a strong product point of view balancing priorities and influencing trade-offs to shape product decisions.
• Leverage data analytics to Innovate and optimize products.

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