[Hiring] V.P. of Product @flexEngage

Role Description

The VP Product will join flexEngage’s executive team and lead the company through its next critical point in scale. Reporting to CEO and Co-Founder Tomas Diaz, the VP Product will drive short- and long-term product vision and strategy, day-to-day execution and be an integral component of the product development process. She/He will be the owner of the product vision to define and drive the product strategy and roadmap, anticipate opportunities in a quickly evolving market, and help to further propel flexEngage in building next generation marketing software.

It is critical that the VP Product at flexEngage be a hands-on team player who can operate effectively as a member of the company’s senior management team. Important to this hire is a self-starting individual with superior interpersonal and communication skills that can forge effective working relationships, internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Define product roadmap so that stakeholders are engaged and key product decisions are well thought-out and communicated
• Work closely with the entire executive team to define, refine and improve the product vision and value proposition
• Oversee and/or write the requirements for all new product features and enhancements to all systems and products
• Develop effective and informative feedback loops through various departments within the organization
• Drive agile, iterative and user-centric product development processes
• Be the voice of the end user; collect improvement requests and champion them into release cycles
• Leverage data and innovate features and functionality based on an assessment of what the next generation marketing technology landscape will look like
• Implement tools to organize and optimize workflows

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of marketing software
• 7-10+ years of experience creating software products
• Track record of building and shipping elegantly simple user interfaces/experiences with measurable success
• Hands-on development skills with the ability to roll up sleeves and work alongside the engineering team
• Experience building out a product team (recruiting; hiring; growth and retention of team)

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with the ability to negotiate with peers and management in a compelling and confident manner
• Highly organized individual with an execution/delivery-driven mindset
• Startup experience strongly preferred; entrepreneurial spirit a must
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to manage, mentor and motivate a team. Emotional Intelligence is critical to this role
• Strong analytics and logical skills
• Problem-solving and organizational skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong track record in thriving in a highly energetic fast-moving environment
• An extremely smart and dynamic individual and a balanced ego