Partner, VP of Product

At Thrive Commerce, we are dedicated to transforming global trade through cutting-edge technology and data-driven insights. Our mission is to simplify and revolutionize commerce and supply chains, making global trade more accessible and efficient. With a vision to reshape a $8.6 trillion industry, we leverage innovative technology and a passionate team to deliver solutions that enhance the efficiency and reliability of international trade. Companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to established enterprises—rely on our technology to streamline their global operations and drive growth.

The recent challenges in global supply chains have highlighted the critical role of advanced technology in reshaping how goods move around the world. As we experience significant growth and continue to push boundaries, we are supported by leading investors who share our commitment to innovation and excellence. If you're eager to tackle global challenges and make a meaningful impact, join us in shaping the future of commerce.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Vice President of Product with a strong background in both digital media and e-commerce to lead the company’s digital product. The core responsibility of this role is to craft and drive roadmaps across all digital product. You’ll partner with senior leadership stakeholders to craft and execute on the product vision with a conviction-driven approach that is grounded in research and data, and a deep understanding of our consumers’ needs. You’ll inspire belief and align your team around a unified strategic direction, while supporting them to drive best-in-class product, engineering, design execution. While you are going to further build, manage, and develop the overarching organization, you should have entrepreneurial roots and still be capable of executing in scrappy ways. The ideal Vice President of Product will have excellent people and organizational skills and have seen complexity at both growth stage and scale.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Vision & Strategy: Serve as a partner to the CEO to craft product vision and champion product direction for both the product organization and the company overall. Set the pace and tone for delivering an innovative and pioneering weight care platform. Your product strategy should further cement Food52’s position as the industry leader.
• Collaborate: Working with peers in the Engineering, Finance, Growth, Forecast, Operations (Cams), and Content departments, you’ll implement an effective organizational structure that balances process, accountability, and scalability with product velocity. Oversee large, cross-functional initiatives bringing together multiple stakeholders, aligning priorities, and driving key business decisions.
• Product Roadmap: Develop and own the product roadmap. Continually assess ‘build vs. buy’ and ‘partner vs. own’ while optimizing for both the long-term strategic needs of the business and near-term scalability and speed. Lead the selection and balance ongoing interdependencies of the company’s products, then prioritize development schedule of features and functionality in line with company goals.
• Product Management Fundamentals: Establish and drive strong product management processes (e.g. discovery, roadmapping, research, prioritization, delivery, analytics, feedback) to achieve and further the vision and mission of the Company.
• Craft. You obsess over defining and solving customer problems. You have product intuition and you’ve personally run many experiments as a product manager, guiding the team to parallels and lessons-learnt. You have a high bar for consumer experiences, and you’re able to delegate back high-leverage feedback to accelerate learnings. You have experience navigating multiple customer segments without creating common denominator experiences. You interpret qualitative and quantitative data and transform them into key insights to learn from and build better solutions.
• Thought leadership: Be a visionary about what it takes to be the winner in an incredibly large and attractive consumer market with complex technology and consumer needs.
• Define the competitive space: Be part of developing a corporate understanding of the Company’s business risks, competitive landscape, and industry-wide (or niche) opportunities.
• Leadership: Lead scaling the organization while executing with good judgment, processes, and data-driven decision making. Create the best Product team for a scaling consumer business working at the intersection of consumer, data science and hardware. You’ll have the right mix of industry experience, and fluency of the customer challenges, with a deep passion for creating exceptional e-commerce ecosystems. You’ll build a team that balances diligence of running a scaling business, while learning quickly to build the right solutions.
• Learning and Development: Create a learning-based organization that will continue to grow and flourish, enhancing the skills and abilities of the team. Develop and oversee team members’ career progression through hands-on management.
• Culture: Ensure team members are excited to go to work every day, ready to produce results and make a positive difference in the world. Architect, codify, and continue to improve the team member journey from recruiting to onboarding to thriving at Food52. Be part of the collective voice of the company on the executive team. Formally and informally solicit cultural input from across the organization. Develop company rituals and programs to deepen team member engagement.
• Inspire and Enlist: Work with and inspire a group of incredibly smart, mission-driven people across the company, and on the product team, giving them tools, mentorship, and motivation to innovate and make decisions to support the vision of the company.
• Allocate: Support and allocate resources for an effective organizational structure that balances process, accountability, and scalability with product velocity and innovation as the company scales.
• Strategize: Develop the product strategy and be held accountable for maintaining enough resources (time, people, money) to achieve the roadmap set forth.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 10+ years of product leadership experience preferred, working on industry leading products, some of those years should intersect lifestyle understanding and experience.
• 6+ years in a leadership or management role preferred, overseeing teams of product managers.
• Ability to build and lead a robust team of product managers and potentially other technologists to influence (e.g. data scientists, machine learning, data engineering). Prior experience of managing multiple teams concurrently with at least 50 people.
• Previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth company environments trying to disrupt the status quo; startup and/or zero-to-one product experience is highly preferred.
• Expert understanding of the project lifecycle processes with previous ground-up, implementation experience. This includes initiation, requirements gathering, analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management.
• Experience developing dashboards and key metrics to track the business and inform strategy. Firm grasp on the interconnected relationship between product and design / engineering / data teams with strong thoughts on how best to manage projects / teams effectively.
• Exceptional leadership, management communication, and presentation skills with experience building/managing relationships with business customers at executive and senior management levels.
• Ability to meet deadlines and manage heavy workload, providing visibility into the workflow and portfolio. In this environment you can easily shift from big picture strategy to hands-on execution.
• We don’t have any requirements for degrees, but do need a lifelong learner. A history of self-education on current product trends, enhanced knowledge on consumer ecosystem, and current product methodologies are expected.

BONUS POINTS

• Global. Previous exposure or significant stakeholdership in the global/international execution of product experiences, is a plus.

WORKING AT THRIVE COMMERCE

We are committed to providing our team with a competitive benefits package. Some of our benefits for include:

• Up to 97.5% funded health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
• Unlimited paid time off
• Monthly fitness reimbursement
• Citibike (NYC) or BikeTown (PDX) company-sponsored annual membership
• Generous employee discount across our brand portfolio
• 401K
• FSA / HSA

EEO STATEMENT

Thrive Commerce is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all team members. We evaluate candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics as required by law and as a matter of our company values.