Chief Product Officer

About Us:

Headquartered in beautiful Santa Barbara, HG Insights is the global leader in technology intelligence. HG Insights uses advanced data science methodologies to help the world’s largest technology firms and the fastest growing companies accelerate their sales, marketing, and strategy efforts. 

We offer a competitive salary, 401K, growth potential, great benefits, and a casual yet professional environment. Get your sweat on at one of our fitness classes or go for a run along the beach which is two blocks away. You can find employees riding bikes to lunch in the funk zone or hanging out in one of our collaboration spaces. We are passionate about our jobs with a get-it-done attitude, yet we don’t take ourselves too seriously. While we work very hard, we also enjoy all that the Santa Barbara coast has to offer.

Opportunity for Impact

HG is seeking a visionary Chief Product Officer to build the long and short-term product strategy, build and lead an exceptional team and ultimately craft a best-in-class data product experience for their customers. In this role, you will drive innovation with a customer-centric mindset alongside cross-functional stakeholders. As the top product leader at the organization, you will create a best-in-class B2B SaaS data and product offerings directly targeting a global client base.

The ideal candidate will have an in-depth knowledge of the relevant markets and competitors with hands-on experience with subscription data products. This person will collaborate closely with the CEO and CTO to craft and execute on a long-term vision for the company that will yield success in the market, serve the customers, and ultimately power HG’s rapid growth.

Position Responsibilities

The Chief Product Officer will report to the CEO Elizabeth Cholawsky and will:

• Create the product roadmap and communicate its deliverables to internal and external stakeholders. Ensure that HG Insights balances customer input, market opportunity, technical constraints, and technical opportunities to create optimal roadmaps.
• Lead and scale the product management, product design, and product marketing functions by creating a highly motivated team to assure rapid development and market adoption of products.
• Develop a best-in-class product culture that leads with a consistent and intimate knowledge of customer needs and competitive pressures.
• Ensure that all products have clear KPIs, comprehensive pricing strategies, and robust messaging frameworks and are driven to success by the HG go-to-market teams on time and within budget.
• Properly implement HG’s product management methodology and create business plans, marketing/launch plans and release plans. Manage release cycles and milestones of products spanning multiple features and data insight areas.
• Ensure your team has the skills that it needs to effectively deliver today's roadmap, while also scaling the team's expertise to grow with the company.
• Be an inspirational leader with the ability to lead product conversations with our largest customers and lead internal and external conversations.
• Partner with the CTO on quarterly planning sessions to ensure that the product roadmap is rational and deliverable and that engineering and product are aligned.
• Engage with Data Solutions, Customer Success, Sales and Marketing organizations, and leaders to bring transparency, communication, and an understanding of the product roadmap, including feature requests and prioritizations.
• Work with the CEO to evaluate M&A opportunities and lead product integration efforts.
• Participate in speaking engagements on general industry topics and promotion of company products.

Professional Qualifications

• 15+ years of technical, enterprise, and SMB software product management experience.
• 5+ years of experience at the Vice President level at companies with >$50M ARR and experience in subscription data products and/or analytics solutions.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering and deploying SaaS and data solutions on a global scale while managing the end-to-end product life cycle.
• Leadership experience with product management, product marketing, and design teams in an Agile environment.
• Experience making complex data actionable via a comprehensive product strategy.
• Strong working understanding of technology and data landscape and ability to identify partners to scale a product roadmap.
• A proven mix of both technical and business acumen to effectively interact cross-functionally and to support the product roadmap and engagement with our customers.
• Hands-on approach to mentoring teams and establishing a culture of immersive product management.
• Experience working in mid-sized growth companies and the ability to balance strategy with changing business needs.
• Ability to communicate effectively across audiences including being a product evangelist to our customers and a trusted leader in executive briefings and board meetings.
• Ability to build consensus across an Executive Team on all aspects of the end-to-end product lifecycle with alignment to our company vision.
• Must be willing to work from our Santa Barbara HQ and travel as needed.
  

Personal Characteristics

• Leadership. Advocates for the intellectual integrity of the team, cares about correctness, inspires the team to do their best work.
• Operator. Decisive. Knows how to get things done. Is assertive enough to drive outcomes, sets goals, has clear accountability, and knows how to create buy-in at different levels to drive change. Has a vision for where the team is going and how it fits into the organization.
• Communication. Creates trust by building relationships, fosters open dialogue, promotes transparency, collaborates with different teams, able to represent product work to audiences across the company, with the board, and also externally to customers.
• Investor. Cultivates a deep understanding of the business to inform how to invest the team’s time to have the most impact and make the right tradeoffs.
• Player-Coach. Collaborative, hardworking, problem-solver who is not afraid to be hands-on and lead by example.
• Mentor. Listen, support, teach, and inspire while remaining coachable.
• Partner. Collaborative, team-oriented leader. Partner with go-to-market teams and broader cross-functional teams to drive results.
• Customer Obsessed. Deep understanding of client and customer needs with a passion for building products users love. Recognize that without customers there would be no business.
• Flexible. Adapt as situations evolve, and are comfortable with ambiguity and constant change.
• Big-Picture Thinking. Always exploring and evaluating new ideas and processes that make the organization better.
• Sense of Humor. Have a sense of humor, it matters.

We are following all local and state guidelines while in office. Employee safety is of utmost importance, and we are taking all necessary precautions. For more information on how we are doing this, please speak with one of our HR team members. Full vaccination against COVID-19 is required unless you qualify for a federally protected exemption.

HG Insights Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

Please note that HG Insights does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event of a recruiter or agency submitting a resume or candidate without a signed agreement being in place, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire such candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of HG Insights