[Hiring] Head of Product @BrightHire

Role Description

We are looking for an exceptional Head of Product to lead BrightHire’s next chapter. You will be our senior-most product leader, responsible for helping determine where we play, how we win, and how we translate our ambition into products that create meaningful customer and business impact.

• Rapidly build context across our customers, products, technology, market, competitive landscape, and commercial model.
• Develop a clear point of view about the opportunities that matter most and translate it into a focused set of high-conviction product investments.
• Lead product across BrightHire Interview, BrightHire Screen, and future products.
• Bring leverage to the CEO, Head of Engineering, and broader leadership team.
• Ensure that strategy translates into excellent execution.
• Work across Zoom to identify R&D, platform, go-to-market, and distribution synergies.

What You’ll Do

• Define how BrightHire wins.
• Rapidly develop a deep understanding of our customers, products, market, technology, economics, and competitive position.
• Develop a clear perspective on strategy – where BrightHire should play and how we can win.
• Translate our strategy into a focused sequence of product investments.
• Bring the CEO and leadership team clear points of view, recommendations, and trade-offs.
• Continually reassess our assumptions and priorities as the market and technology evolves.
• Lead a multi-product portfolio.
• Partner with the CEO and Head of Engineering on strategy, roadmap, resourcing, execution, launches, adoption, and business impact.
• Allocate resources across BrightHire’s current products, platform capabilities, and new bets.
• Ensure our largest initiatives have a clear customer, value proposition, competitive position, success measures, and path to meaningful impact.
• Create the product and platform foundations required to expand BrightHire into a broader AI-native hiring platform.
• Translate strategic priorities into clear roadmaps, ownership, resource allocation, and execution.
• Create a lightweight operating model that drives speed and quality.
• Hold a high bar for product value, usability, reliability, and trust.
• Stay close to workstreams to identify risks, resolve ambiguity, and maintain momentum.
• Ensure products move successfully from insight and concept through launch, adoption, measurement, and iteration.
• Identify opportunities that become possible as model capabilities improve.
• Apply your experience building great AI products – prototyping, evaluations, reliability, trust, product economics, and continuous improvement.
• Balance rapid innovation with the transparency, quality, and trust required for enterprise adoption.
• Personally use and experiment with modern AI tools and workflows.
• Connect roadmap decisions to adoption, retention, and revenue.
• Partner with sales, marketing, and CS to translate product investments into revenue.
• Participate in customer and prospect conversations and use them to sharpen product strategy.
• Shape positioning, launches, enablement, adoption, and competitive narratives.
• Identify opportunities to use Zoom’s tech, relationships, and distribution to accelerate growth.
• Be an insightful, high-leverage resource to product managers and designers.
• Raise the quality of product strategy, judgment, craft, and execution across the team.
• Build a culture of intellectual honesty, customer obsession, speed, and accountability.

Qualifications

• Strategic judgment: Quickly understand complex customers, markets, products, and technologies.
• Commercial instincts: Connect product decisions to adoption, retention, revenue, and competitive advantage.
• Product leadership: Led significant products from strategy through launch, adoption, and measurable impact.
• AI product experience: Successfully shipped AI-first products.
• Execution excellence: Translate strategy into focused, high-quality execution without unnecessary process.
• Experience in recruiting technology or an adjacent hiring category is strongly preferred, but not required.

How You Operate

• Hands-on: You want to build, not simply supervise.
• Positive and energizing: You bring urgency, optimism, and an attitude that raises the performance of the people around you.
• Highly collaborative: You bring clear opinions without ego and engage constructively in disagreement.
• Passionate about hiring: You believe hiring is an important and underserved problem.
• Competitive: You study the market and want to build the product that defines the category.