PerformYard

VP of Product

PerformYard

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Virginia • United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own and evolve the long-term product vision, embedding AI-native innovation into the core platform and future offerings
  • Translate company strategy into a multi-year product roadmap aligned with ARR expansion, market positioning, and enterprise value creation
  • Identify and prioritize high-impact growth opportunities across product, pricing, packaging, and adjacent talent modules
  • Establish durable competitive advantages and defensible differentiation within the HR tech landscape
  • Lead product discovery practices grounded in customer insight, market intelligence, and data
  • Maintain a regular cadence of direct customer engagement to ground product decisions in real user needs
  • Drive product-led growth initiatives that improve adoption, expansion, retention, and customer lifetime value
  • Develop scalable monetization strategies, including AI-driven feature differentiation and packaging evolution
  • Own the end-to-end user experience vision and partner with Design to modernize the product interface, ensuring AI-native features are intuitive and adoption-ready
  • Partner with Sales and Marketing to sharpen positioning, messaging, and go-to-market effectiveness
  • Evaluate build/partner/buy decisions and guide product integrations to accelerate strategic growth
  • Lead roadmap execution in partnership with Engineering, ensuring high-impact delivery with measurable outcomes
  • Partner with Engineering leadership on platform modernization, scalability, and AI-first development priorities
  • Develop team members and build a strong leadership bench to sustain organizational performance
  • Lead a high-performance culture of accountability, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration
  • Maintain operational excellence and efficiency as teams scale
  • Serve as a key member of the executive leadership team to drive growth and enterprise value
  • Present product strategy, roadmap priorities, and growth impact to the Board with clarity and confidence
  • Advise on capital allocation, market opportunities, and strategic product investments to maximize business impact
  • Quantify the business impact of product initiatives through clear, outcome-based reporting
  • Key Metrics and Success Criteria: Product and Customer: Adoption rates, feature utilization, customer satisfaction and retention; Revenue and Growth: ARR growth, upsell/cross-sell performance and churn reduction; Product Delivery: Roadmap predictability, AI feature adoption, and time-to-value; Team and Organization: Leadership development, team engagement, retention and performance

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with a track record of leadership success in Product leadership roles within B2B SaaS companies
  • Proven experience scaling product organizations in growth-stage companies (50-250+ employees)
  • Demonstrated success partnering with executive teams to align product strategy with business objectives and customer outcomes
  • Hands-on experience building or scaling AI-native products, not just adding AI features to existing workflows, but fundamentally rethinking user experiences around AI capabilities
  • Deep expertise driving product-led growth and monetization strategy in subscription-based SaaS models
  • Strong executive presence with exceptional Board and investor communication skills
  • Data-driven mindset, comfortable with aligning product investments to ROI and value creation
  • Decisive leader who thrives in fast paced, scaling environments
Benefits
  • medical, dental, and vision health insurance benefits w/ HSA plan
  • disability insurance
  • 401k plan
  • generous PTO
  • paid holidays
  • other benefits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI-native product developmentproduct roadmap creationmonetization strategyproduct discovery practicescustomer engagementdata-driven decision makingsubscription-based SaaS modelsproduct-led growthfeature differentiationproduct integration
Soft Skills
leadershipexecutive presencecommunicationcross-functional collaborationaccountabilityinnovationdecisivenesscustomer insightstrategic thinkingteam development
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree