Vice President of Product

OwnLocal is a fun-loving and hardworking Austin-area startup with a crazy plan to help local media companies survive by providing digital services to their small business advertisers. We're a leader in digital advertising solutions for local media companies globally—we partner with more than 2,600 media companies and operate in North America, Europe, and Australia.

You’re a fearless risk taker who has strong product vision and zero hesitation to challenge the positions of OwnLocal leadership. An expert on product planning, customer discovery, and product development process - you use data to make decisions, using as much objective truth as you can find. You know what validation and recency bias are and fight against them. You have a proven ability to work effectively across departments. Owning the product road map to take OwnLocal from working with 100,000 SMBs/month to 1,000,000 doesn’t scare you.

* Plan, assign, and direct workloads of the existing product team * Mentor, train, and coach the product team * Assess the performance of the product team * Define product mission and strategy with CEO * Assess product development and enhancement opportunities * Oversee competitive research * Define pricing & competitive positioning * Evaluate and establish program priorities in line with business objectives * Openly and effectively share information about customers, market, and organization with the team * Develop budgets; forecasts; and metrics to measure, monitor, and evaluate the results * Manage product, project managers, product leadership * Report on product progress to the rest of OwnLocal * Work with engineering and leadership team to determine product deadlines * Hiring and firing for Product team * Collaborate with Development on designing, implementing, testing, refining and deploying solutions * Track status and facilitate planning, stand-ups, testing, demos and retrospectives as needed

**You should apply if you meet these minimum requirements:** * 6+ years managing a product team * Experience tracking and optimizing product output * Experience regularly delivering on product deadlines * Experience developing and maintaining product road-maps * 4+ years experience managing a full software development life cycle and estimating work units for engineers * Experience with SMB software, digital advertising, UX design and a variety of CMSs * Customer outreach and feedback collection **You should really seriously apply if you are also good at any of the following:** * Building and delivering products that have scaled more than 100% year over year * User testing * Mentoring and coaching junior product managers * Building collaborative product teams * Challenging leadership * Asking “Why?”