Chief Product Officer

First Things First - What We Can Offer You

• Flex4 - 4-day, 32 hour work week (but paid for 40 hours)
• Flexible work environment - 2 days in office/2 days remote (unless position is 100% remote)
• Responsible Time Off
• Opportunities for growth and development
• Second-to-none product training provided
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision package with 100% paid options for employees
• 401k/Retirement Plan with 6% employer match
• Dog-friendly office environment
• Free parking
• Happy hours and office games

The Job

simPRO’s Chief Product Officer will be the strategic leader, visionary, team supervisor, and an advocate for simPRO products. The CPO will grow existing product offerings as well as lead and facilitate the creation of complementary products that deliver value to both customers and the business. As a member of simPRO’s executive team, this role reports directly to simPRO’s Chief Executive Officer.

What You’ll Do

The Chief Product Officer oversees of a broad scope of product-related activities across the entire product lifecycle - from customer discovery and user research, to development and delivery:

• Product strategy

• Product vision

• Product design

• User research

• Product development

• Product growth 

• Product analytics and metrics

• Structuring the product organization, including interviewing, recruiting, and supervising product employees and teams

Key Contributions

• Leadership - supervise and oversee the entire product organization, ensuring initiatives run smoothly across internal teams, customers and stakeholders. Facilitates communication across the company. Directly supervises and directs the work of product leads and ensures the collaboration of work across cross-functional teams.

• Strategic product vision - responsible for the “why” of simPRO’s product and the strategy for what to build next, aligning the company’s products around the simPRO vision. 

• Customer focused - has a deep understanding of the problems, needs, and desires of simPRO customers through customer discovery. Feedback is central to building excellent product experiences, identifying proper positioning in the market, leading to product success in all of simPRO’s markets.

• Data driven - makes objective, data-driven decisions and creates value for simPRO through insights, dashboards and the identification of both metrics and analysis.

What You’ll Bring

The successful CPO candidate will exhibit the following strengths and prior experiences 

• 10-15 years of progressive technological product management experience, with recent product leadership in a SaaS organization

• Prior experience developing and successfully executing a global product strategy, multiple brand product growth preferred, product-led product strategy preferred

• Prior experience with comprehensive, complex systems

• Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree preferred

• Preferred candidates will have experience scaling an organization from $100M to $200+M

• Preferred candidates will also have had exposure working with products or services related to the trades

• Prior sales, commercial orientation is a plus

• The successful candidate will also be US based and in either the Mountain or Pacific time zones to best facilitate work with the current simPRO executive team

• Prior M&A experience is a plus

Core values required of all simPRO employees:

We Are One Team

We Own It

We Innovate

We Care

We Have Fun

At simPRO we have an open culture and we believe in direct communication and diversity. This means that we want everyone to feel welcome with us and to provide equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other non-performance factor.

So, if you'd like to join a fun and progressive organisation where there are opportunities to develop your career, please apply now with your CV/resume.

*Please note, no agencies will be accepted in the recruitment of this role. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all candidates for their application. Only candidates who meet the criteria above will be contacted for an interview.