Crush & Lovely LLC VP of Product Remote · Full time

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Introduction

Crush & Lovely is seeking a VP of Product to join our team in a full-time capacity and play a pivotal role in the future of our company. You’ll be working on impactful, strategic technology projects for exciting clients across the finance, health/wellness, and media & entertainment industries. This is a fully remote position with the expectation of availability between 10am-6pm ET.

The VP of Product will be responsible for creating the business, technical, and strategic vision for our product team. You’ll be managing product managers, designers, engineers, and developers, collaborating with marketing and support teams, and providing the overall vision for the product roadmap. You will be joining Crush & Lovely’s executive leadership team, helping us to achieve our company’s goals.

Perks

• Fully remote with an experienced remote culture
• Excellent work-life balance 
• Executive Coaching and Professional Development
• Speaking Opportunities
• Technology & workspace equipment
• Company contributed benefit plans - health, dental, vision, life

Your Role

• Create and drive innovative ideas, solutions, and products through leadership and decisive action ensuring the work is achieving our clients’ broader business and marketing goals
• Develop and lead product strategy and alignment of objectives & budgets for multiple clients
• Join our core leadership team and represent the product department as its leader 
• Develop standards and processes for C&L’s Product teams
• Maintain a deep understanding of culture, identifying macro and micro shifts in the technological and cultural landscape and helping teams connect these changes/tensions to business opportunities within client accounts
• Relentlessly raise the bar in terms of creative solutions that meet business requirements, pushing beyond the bounds of the ordinary “it just works” mentality
• Lead, manage and mentor a team of product managers, designers, developers, and related personnel
• Lead, define, represent and communicate product strategy to all stakeholders
• Assess and monitor product development sprints and enhancement opportunities
• Build incredible teams and processes to deliver products that satisfy the needs of customers
• Become a key evangelist of Crush & Lovely and participate in press activities, conferences, and discussions with thought leaders and market analysts
• Be a trusted partner and advisor to our clients across various aspects of the business while simultaneously representing the work, recommendations, and best interests of C&L
• Take on the perspectives of both our clients and our internal teams, and know exactly how to express their aspirations, concerns, and requirements to the other side
• Demonstrate micro and macro knowledge of our client's businesses through continuous research of their brands, their categories, and their competitors
• Responsible for contributing to the highest quality of creative work by sharing ongoing knowledge of the client/business/brand with our team and demonstrating strong creative judgment

Who we're looking for

• 8 years as a product director and business partner to senior-level clients, with at least 5 years within the digital agency space on projects involving digital products - e.g. web, mobile, SaaS, large scale cross-platform software, and strategic consulting projects
• You are a talented digital product leader with a successful track record of launching and growing new technology-based products
• You are comfortable interacting with clients of all levels and industry backgrounds, and know intuitively how to best facilitate the relationship between C&L and our clients in any given situation
• Success in presenting strategic solutions and POVs that engage consumers and build brands in the digital space
• Innate curiosity and entrepreneurship with the ability to operate both macro and micro
• You have experience with and understand agile methodologies
• You excel in problem-solving and decision-making skills
• You are able to quickly understand, simplify, internalize, and communicate complex or technical concepts to clients
• You have demonstrated thoroughness, follow-up, and attention to detail
• Excellent leadership, communication, pitching, and presentation skills
• Up-to-date understanding of market trends and a keen interest in following emerging technologies
• Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement
• Strong understanding and appreciation for design, user experience, and technical & business issues
• Have the ability to “see the entire picture” of an account and make decisions accordingly 
• Strategic & creative thinker with the ability to craft go-to-market strategies
• Successfully implemented data-driven processes to turn a vision into an actionable roadmap
• Strong attention to detail skills
• Ability to analyze product analytics to understand feature usage, comprehension, and optimization

Who We Are

Crush & Lovely is a comprehensive product team that creates breakthrough business outcomes for product leaders. Digital products today are sophisticated and built-in to the business. Designing and developing digital offerings "to spec" is a thing of the past. Today, product teams need capabilities in research, strategy, UX design, technical architecture, engineering, and marketing. That's what we provide our customers. We use our 17 years of experience designing and building technology solutions to create products that move the needle for companies.

To apply for this position, please send an email along with your resume to [email protected].