Chorus - San Francisco Bay Area
- Reports to: President/COO
- Direct Reports: Director of Product Development
- Compensation: competitive salary, stock options, performance-based bonus, and competitive health benefits.
Job Description
We are currently developing V2.0 of our proprietary enterprise software called Chorus. A preview can be found at www.socialchorus.com. The product is on track to launch in Feb 2012 with a variety of highly valuable features and functionality. Additional upgrades and features are planned for releases/upgrades for the foreseeable future.
The VP of Product Management will report to the President & COO and work collaboratively with the Executive team to define and develop the vision, strategy, and product roadmap for a world-class SaaS platform for social media marketing for global brands.
The candidate will manage all product initiatives through the entire lifecycle from ideation and inception through development, testing, launch, measurement and ongoing enhancement. The VP of Product Management will also be a product representative, involved in marketing & selling and communicating product benefits to clients and potential clients.
This position is responsible for building and managing the team that is developing our proprietary software platform, and for deploying a final product that is completely functional allowing hundreds of major brands to quickly deploy in multiple global markets.
Strategic vision and leadership:
- Collaborate with the CEO, President/COO, and Executive Team to define and manage the product vision, strategy, and roadmap that will fulfill user and client needs and stay one step ahead of the market.
- Provide inspirational leadership, motivation and hands-on direction to all product development and engineering staff.
- Cultivate a milestone-driven culture, in which consistent innovation and progress are expected. Provide strong process management to a ‘sprint-based’ development environment (using the Rails stack).
Direct Responsibilities:
- Manage the product roadmap, getting internal consensus and incorporating feedback from clients and prospects. This will delight our clients with product excellence that is fast, easy, smart, and fun
- Define the development schedule, based on team size/capabilities and product priorities
- Manage the development team to hit weekly and monthly milestones for major and minor product releases.
- Recruit and mentor world-class product team, including product managers, designers, and product marketers.
- Ensure Q&A approaches consistent with serving Fortune 500 brands.
- Plans, develops, and establishes policies, procedures, and objectives of all the Company’s research and development functions in accordance with objectives
Leadership Style:
- Inspirational leader who can thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Self-starter who can simultaneously manage multiple internal and external initiatives/projects and deliver outstanding results
- Ability to work collaboratively with employees at all levels of the organization and establish and maintain strong relationships with strategic partners
- Strong project management skills
- Thinks quickly on his/her feet, is practical and “street smart” – and wants win.
Desired Skills & Experience
- BA/BS required. MBA preferred
- Minimum 6-8 years experience leading development teams that delivered consumer or enterprise facing software solutions that dominated their competitors.
- 3-5 years experience building and releasing SaaS or PaaS software in both start-ups and established companies.
- Highly technical, able to communicate with engineers on technical topics. Past development experience a plus.
- Consumer social/community/marketing software platform experience preferred
- Proven success with rapid development environments and tools.
- Preferred experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Tenacious and resourceful problem solver with deep analytics skills
- Proven ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated financial management experience, including the development of financial projections, budgets, resources and managing to these appropriately
- Strong business acumen and the ability to synthesize and analyze data to identify trends and marketing opportunities
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal
- Strong project management and performance management skills
Company Description
We believe that brands should develop direct and enduring relationships with influencers and advocates. We are a software and services company that enables brands and agencies to create and distribute content and social currency to their influencers, soon-to-be influencers and superfans across all major social networks.
Our platform powers on-going, transparent relationships with these social influencers, and enables the brand to manage and reward these relationships directly. Our technology tracks all the marketing outcomes, and demonstrates the media and business ROI.
Our focus as an organization will be on software platform sales (bundled or unbundled with services) with global firms that deploy our solution quickly across multiple brands and markets.
If you are interested, please contact us at jobs@halogennetwork.com.
