[Hiring] SVP, Product @Axios

Role Description

Axios is hiring an SVP, Product to lead how Axios builds products across the company, strengthening Product and Design while turning promising AI-enabled ideas into durable, supported products.

• Lead Product, Design, and AI Enablement, setting strategy, priorities, decision rights, and operating cadence.
• Look ahead: turn a clear point of view on emerging technologies, behaviors, and opportunities into credible product choices and experiments.
• Partner with business leaders to translate company and functional goals into clear product opportunities, outcomes, and investment choices.
• Raise the product management bar through clear expectations, coaching, and accountability.
• Create a clear path from promising experiments to durable, supported products.

Qualifications

• A trusted partner to senior leaders who can challenge assumptions, form a clear point of view, make hard tradeoffs, and keep decisions moving.
• A clear vision for where product development is headed and how Axios can succeed as the technology landscape rapidly evolves.
• Demonstrated AI fluency: you personally use AI to accelerate your work and prototype ideas, and you know how to turn AI capabilities into useful products and workflows.
• Senior product leadership experience in software, information services, media, or another fast-moving environment, with a record of bringing Product and Design together.
• Technical fluency across product strategy, workflows, tooling, data, and production tradeoffs.
• Experience with prioritization and portfolio management across multiple stakeholders.
• A track record of turning prototypes and experiments into durable, supported products.
• The judgment to create useful governance without becoming a bottleneck.
• The ability to distinguish a meaningful product opportunity from an interesting AI demo.

Requirements

Success means a clear company-wide model for deciding what Axios should build and why, stronger and faster Product and Design decisions, and a repeatable path from promising AI experiments to durable, supported products.

Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match
• Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
• Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
• Dental and vision coverage
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• Birth-givers will have an additional 6-8 weeks depending on type of delivery, for a total of 18-20 weeks continuous leave
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
• One mental health day per quarter
• Annual learning and development stipend
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services through Headspace
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
• Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
• Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
• Virtual company-sponsored social events
• A strong and positive work environment
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture