Vice President, Product & Experience

Young Life

Vice President overseeing Product & Experience at Young Life. Leading strategy, product vision, and team development in a spiritual mission-driven organization.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $128,180 - $177,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and lead Product & Experience strategy across the GMET ecosystem.
Establish product vision, portfolio priorities, roadmap, and outcome measurement.
Lead product discovery, user research, service design, experience strategy, and adoption practices.
Establish platform product management for shared capabilities such as identity, workflow, integrations, search, knowledge, AI enablement, and data experiences.
Ensure products, platforms, and experiences align with mission priorities, user needs, and organizational strategy.
Build and lead the Product & Experience organization.
Recruit, develop, coach, and mentor Product Managers, Designers, Researchers, Product Operations leaders, and future leaders.
Establish career paths, leadership development practices, performance expectations, and succession plans.
Build a culture of ownership, stewardship, learning, and continuous improvement.
Establish Product & Experience as a strategic organizational capability within Young Life.
Create governance mechanisms, operating models, review processes, and decision-making frameworks.
Lead through organizational change, ambiguity, and transformation.
Help Young Life adopt modern product, experience, platform, and portfolio disciplines.
Guide the responsible use of AI across products, workflows, services, and mission operations.
Ensure product, experience, and platform investments advance ministry effectiveness, volunteer enablement, donor stewardship, and mission impact.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
8+ years of managerial experience.
15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Product Management, Experience Design, Digital Strategy, Product Operations, Service Design, or related disciplines.
Experience leading large product portfolios and complex digital ecosystems.
Experience building and scaling organizations while developing future leaders.
Platform Product Management and ecosystem thinking.
AI-enabled products, workflows, and operating models.
User research, service design, and experience design leadership.
Global or highly distributed user populations.
Demonstrated success leading organizational, digital, or operational transformation.
Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
Mission-driven, nonprofit, faith-based, education, healthcare, community-focused, or volunteer-led organizations.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Young Life requires all employees to sign a Statement of Faith.
Develop a yearly personal growth plan that fosters a vibrant spiritual life including time for solitude, retreat, reflection, study, prayer, and worship.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product ManagementExperience DesignDigital StrategyProduct OperationsService DesignUser ResearchAI-enabled productsPlatform Product ManagementEcosystem thinkingOrganizational transformation

Soft Skills

LeadershipCoachingMentoringStakeholder managementExecutive communicationOrganizational leadershipChange managementStrategic thinkingContinuous improvementTeam building

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeAdvanced degree