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?”