Head Of Product - Found

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Head of Product to lead the company’s Product Management team. The core responsibility of this role is to craft and drive roadmaps across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. You’ll partner with senior leadership stakeholders to craft and execute on the product vision with a conviction-driven approach that is grounded in research and data, and a deep understanding of our consumers’ needs. You’ll inspire belief and align your team around a unified strategic direction, while supporting them to drive best-in-class product, engineering, design execution. While you are going to further build, manage, and develop the overarching organization, you should have entrepreneurial roots and still be capable of executing in scrappy ways.  The ideal Head of Product will have excellent people and organizational skills and have seen complexity at both growth stage and scale.

What You’ll Do

• Vision & Strategy. Serve as a partner to CPO to craft product vision and champion product direction for both the product organization and the company overall. Set the pace and tone for delivering an innovative and pioneering weight care platform. Your product strategy should further cement Found’s position as the industry leader.
• Product Roadmap. Develop and own the product roadmap. Continually assess ‘build vs. buy’ and ‘partner vs. own’ while optimizing for both the long-term strategic needs of the business and near-term scalability and speed. Lead the selection and balance ongoing interdependencies of the company’s products, then prioritize development schedule of features and functionality in line with company goals.
• Product Management Fundamentals. Establish and drive strong product management processes (e.g. discovery, roadmapping, research, prioritization, delivery, analytics, feedback) to achieve and further the vision and mission of the Company.
• Collaborate. Working with peers in Clinical, Engineering, Design, Data, Marketing, Operations, Finance, you’ll implement an effective organizational structure that balances process, accountability, and scalability with product velocity. Oversee large, cross-functional initiatives bringing together multiple stakeholders, aligning priorities, and driving key business decisions.
• Thought leadership. Be a visionary about what it takes to be the winner in an incredibly large and attractive consumer healthcare market with complex technology and consumer needs.
• Define the competitive space. Be part of developing a corporate understanding of the Company’s business risks, competitive landscape, and industry-wide (or niche) opportunities.
• Leadership. Lead the scaling organization while executing with good judgment, processes, and data-driven decision making. Create the best Product team for a scaling healthcare business working at the intersection of consumer, the enterprise and healthcare systems. You’ll have the right mix of industry experience, and fluency of the customer challenges, especially navigating the healthcare ecosystem. You’ll build a team that balances being diligent in a regulated environment, while learning quickly to build the right solutions.
• Learning and Development. Create a learning-based organization that will continue to grow and flourish, enhancing the skills and abilities of the team. Develop and oversee team members’ career progression through hands-on management.
• Culture. Ensure team members are excited to go to work every day, ready to produce results and make a positive difference in the world. Architect, codify, and continue to improve the team member journey from recruiting to onboarding to thriving at Found. Be part of the collective voice of the company on the executive team. Formally and informally solicit cultural input from across the organization. Develop company rituals and programs to deepen team member engagement.
• Inspire and Enlist. Work with and inspire a group of incredibly smart, mission-driven people across the company, and on the product team, giving them tools, mentorship, and motivation to innovate and make decisions to support the vision of the company.
• Allocate. Support and allocate resources for an effective organizational structure that balances process, accountability, and scalability with product velocity and innovation as the company scales.
• Strategize. Develop the product strategy and be held accountable for maintaining enough resources (time, people, money) to achieve the roadmap set forth.

What You Have

• Years. 10+ years of product leadership experience preferred, working on industry leading products, some of those years should intersect healthcare understanding and experience.
• Product. 8+ years in a leadership or management role preferred, overseeing teams of product managers.
• Team. Ability to build and lead a robust team of product managers and potentially other technologists to influence (e.g. data scientists, machine learning, data engineering). Prior experience of managing multiple teams concurrently with at least 50 people.
• High Growth Period. Previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth company environments trying to disrupt the status quo; startup and/or zero-to-one product experience is highly preferred.
• Project Management. Expert understanding of the project lifecycle processes with previous ground-up, implementation experience. This includes initiation, requirements gathering, analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management.
• Tracking. Experience developing dashboards and key metrics to track the business and inform strategy. Firm grasp on the interconnected relationship between product and design / engineering / data teams with strong thoughts on how best to manage projects / teams effectively.
• Executive. Exceptional leadership, management communication, and presentation skills with experience building/managing relationships with business customers at executive and senior management levels.
• Style, Player-Coach. Ability to meet deadlines and manage heavy workload, providing visibility into the workflow and portfolio. In this environment you can easily shift from big picture strategy to hands-on execution.
• Education. We don’t have any requirements for degrees, but do need a lifelong learner. A history of self-education on current product trends, enhanced knowledge on consumer ecosystem, and current product methodologies are expected.

Bonus Points 

• Global. Previous exposure or significant stakeholdership in the global/international execution of product experiences, is a plus.

What You’ll Get

• Competitive compensation
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• PTO, company-paid holidays, parental leave
• 401K, wellness and wifi perks
• Flexible, remote-first work culture

Found is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We seek and celebrate diversity in its many forms.  If you’re excited about this opportunity but do not meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply.

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