VP Product

Job Description:

ShopStyle Collective is looking for an analytical, entrepreneurial, and creative Vice President of Product Management to help us grow our influencer marketing business. Reporting to the GM, you will be responsible for helping lead a team that owns the strategy, roadmap, and development of our product portfolio including our influencer and retailer facing tools, as well as our internal systems.

Successful candidates will have a refined data-driven approach to product development, exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills, and display an ability to balance multiple competing priorities while maintaining a rapid pace of product delivery. This means owning, managing and especially analyzing our existing products to identify both growth opportunities as well as products that needs to be tweaked, changed or retired.

You will work closely with stakeholders across the business (business development, influencer relations, marketing, campaign management and business operations) as well as partner with our engineering team to lead appropriate prioritization and tradeoff discussions. This requires strong cross-functional collaboration skills, negotiating amongst a variety of business requirements and building consensus when competing priorities exist to ensure we execute on our vision and mission at SSC.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the ShopStyle Collective leadership team to ensure a robust product vision and roadmap is set and adhered to across the organization.
• Think strategically and continually evangelize that strategy.
• You will hone a compelling product strategy that includes a strong understanding of:
• How we reach across a wide customer base (and who that customer base really is)
• How we use our vision and mission to guide winning in the influencer space
• How to differentiate our products from competition
• How to build compelling and remarkable products for our influencers, retailers AND our own internal team
• Make cross-functional, strategic prioritization
• Working with key stakeholders - GM’s, engineering and cross functional leaders to develop strategic product planning and prioritization OKRs and longer term investment plans.
• Represent product management at the executive level while working well with your peers.
• Empower PMs in the organization to work effectively and get things done.
• Foster a strong product culture that focuses on the importance of execution - relying on continuous, rapid testing and learning.
• Develop processes needed to run product development efficiently, prioritize product decisions, and launch products. This includes experience with multi-function go-to-market planning, writing simple product requirement documents and navigating cross-functional input and trade-offs for products.
  
  

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must have a deep background developing product in one or more following:
• Global e-commerce or technology platform
• Digital media or ad tech industries
• Merchant experiences including onboarding, dashboards and toolsets
• Demonstrated leadership skills in managing priorities, delegating, and influencing.
• Communicate effectively, written and verbally, across a diverse set of audiences, internally and externally.
• Direct hands on experience with writing user stories and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor and develop a high performing and at times geographically dispersed team
• Proven excellence as leader in product management, capable of driving high-impact initiatives that deliver meaningful business results
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with a strong bias for action
  
  

Qualification Requirements

• 10+ years of increasing responsibility in software, internet, or consumer product management or similar roles in management or consulting.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with a demonstrated ability to use numbers and metrics to back up assumptions and evaluate outcomes; experience with financial modeling and statistics is a plus
  
  

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• Always improve, always advance. Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen.
• Be passionately professional. Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best.
• Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika. Use the Rakuten Cycle to success in unknown territory.
• Maximize Customer Satisfaction. The greatest satisfaction for workers in a service industry is to see their customers smile.
• Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time. Take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team.