VP of Product
Bluefish AI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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About the role
- Define and champion a compelling product vision and multi-year roadmap that aligns with company strategy, market opportunity, and customer needs — and rally the organization around it.
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing product team, establishing best practices, processes, and a culture of customer obsession and rigorous execution.
- Own and drive end-to-end product strategy across the full portfolio, ensuring each initiative has a clear vision, measurable outcomes, and cross-functional alignment.
- Serve as a key member of the executive team, contributing to company strategy, fundraising narratives, board communications, and organizational decisions.
- Spot macro trends, evaluate competitive landscapes, and translate insights into differentiated product strategies that position Bluefish as a market leader.
- Apply rigor to deeply understand customer needs and pain points at scale. Identify and prioritize features and bets that deliver maximum value and create sustainable competitive advantage.
- Drive seamless collaboration and alignment across leadership, engineering, design, sales, and customer success — ensuring the product organization is a force multiplier for the entire company.
- Define and monitor product success metrics, evaluate ROI, and create accountability frameworks that connect product outcomes to business results.
- Represent the product externally — with key customers, partners, analysts, and the press — as a credible and inspiring spokesperson for Bluefish's vision.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years in a VP or senior product leadership role, with a mix of startup and enterprise environments preferred.
- Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing product teams, including hiring, developing, and retaining top product talent.
- Proven 0-to-1 product experience, including defining a product from scratch, navigating ambiguity, and driving successful first launches.
- Demonstrated success launching and scaling SaaS products, with experience in AI-driven or marketing technology platforms strongly preferred.
- Executive presence and communication skills — ability to influence the board, inspire the company, align cross-functional leaders, and build confidence with customers and partners.
- Strong technical acumen — comfortable working closely with engineers, understanding system architecture, and making sound build/buy/partner decisions.
- Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to make data-driven decisions, interpret complex data, and translate ambiguity into clear strategic direction.
- Deep experience with customer discovery and customer-facing product leadership, including managing roadmap expectations across enterprise and mid-market customers.
- Startup-ready mentality — energized by building from scratch, thriving in ambiguity, and operating with a bias toward action in a fast-moving environment.
- Deep empathy for users and a relentless focus on delivering customer value that translates into measurable business outcomes.
- Ability to zoom in and out: set high-level strategy while also shaping the details of execution when needed.
- High energy, self-starter attitude with a track record of driving outcomes in lean, high-growth organizations.
Benefits
- Full medical, dental and vision benefits.
- PTO and remote work flexibility.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementSaaS productsAI-driven platformsmarketing technologydata-driven decision makingsystem architectureproduct strategycustomer discoveryproduct success metricscompetitive analysis
Soft Skills
executive presencecommunication skillsinfluencecross-functional alignmentanalytical skillsempathy for usershigh-energyself-startermentoringcustomer obsession