About the position
Alloy Partners (formally High Alpha Innovation) is a venture builder with a radical thesis: that we can build and scale advantaged companies in partnership with corporations and entrepreneurs. We believe we can unlock growth and transformation for our partners through startup creation. Venture building has the potential to address society’s biggest problems and the world needs more new companies to tackle these global issues. Launching new startups with scaled organizations enables them to address those challenges head on. For our next startup, we’ve partnered with Huntington National Bank, a leading regional bank with 970 branches across 11 states. Huntington is an acknowledged leader in supporting America’s small businesses, and has been the nation’s top Small Business Administration (SBA 7(a)) lender by volume for six consecutive years. Together we are seeking a world-class entrepreneur for the role of Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Co-Founder for our newest company, StealthCo. StealthCo makes the market for commercial real estate more efficient, starting with matching small businesses who need space with those who have space through a two-sided marketplace software platform, enabling pop-up retail events that increase foot traffic, awareness, and community connections. Like Airbnb created a new market for residential real estate, StealthCo will unlock unused business spaces and put them to work while revitalizing local neighborhoods, starting with pop-ups and expanding to short- and long-term rentals. Our Co-Founders are supported by Alloy Partners’ Go-to-Market (GTM) experts who have decades of collective experience guiding founders with their GTM motions and launch strategies: from securing early customers and investors to establishing product development and sales functions. As the CPO and Co-Founder, you will have the opportunity to turn the validated concept for StealthCo into a growing, important, and durable business, from the ground up. As the CPO you will work to build the MVP, hire a world-class team of product managers and software developers, and partner with the CEO to define the product roadmap and go-to-market strategy. This is a unique opportunity to be a creator, builder, and innovator to build a world-class product from scratch.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own our product portfolio, including each individual product roadmap, product design and user experience, ensuring it serves important customer needs that align with our business goals.
- Oversee the full product lifecycle from ideation to delivery, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure product excellence.
- Regularly engage with customers and partners to gather feedback, validate product assumptions, and ensure the solution is on target.
- Implement product instrumentation, A/B testing frameworks and other tools and strategies to understand product utilization, track performance, and incorporate feedback loops to refine and enhance the user experience.
- Recruit, retain, mentor, and manage both in-house and outsourced product and technical teams, ensuring they have the resources and training needed to succeed.
- Facilitate an agile/lean culture and operation that maximize our efforts to create customer value.
- Work closely with the CEO and other leadership team members to identify new product opportunities, and contribute to strategic decision-making.
- Manage the product development budget, ensuring efficient resource allocation and maintaining a focus on delivering value within budgetary constraints.
- Establish and maintain processes for risk management, data protection, privacy, and security policies, ensuring contractual obligations, regulatory requirements and best practices are followed throughout the product development process.
- Represent the Company in customer meetings and conferences as needed.
Requirements
- Successful track record as a CPO, CTO or similar product leadership role at an early-stage venture-backed startup.
- At least 15 years of demonstrated experience in SaaS product roadmap creation and management, from inception to release and a proven track record of creating user experiences that are sticky, drive adoption, and satisfy & delight users.
- At least 7 years of experience leading and managing teams, including recruitment, mentoring, and performance management.
- Demonstrated history of building and managing two-sided marketplaces is required.
- Experience building teams and products, including product design and user experience, from scratch as well as managing on-shore or off-shore development partners and budgets.
- Deep understanding of Agile and Lean methodologies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, product testing and feature design.
- Strong technical background with the ability to collaborate with development teams and understand product architecture (no coding required, but must have a technical understanding). A former engineer turned product owner or product designer would be ideal.
- Track record of delivering development projects on time and on budget; proven ability to motivate teams and create a positive, challenging and enjoyable work environment.
- A positive, proactive, dream big and collaborative attitude. Talent with passion and curiosity, ready, willing and able to jump-in and lend a hand and be comfortable working in an ambiguous, ever-changing environment.
- A self-starter, result-oriented and a bias for action, with the ability to assess risk and continuously course correct as new information is discovered.
- Venture capital fundraising experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Salary plus equity plan
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Flexible work location within the United States
- A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with a proven venture studio playbook
- A validated concept and business model hypothesis developed by our team, including verbal pilot commitments
- Pre-seed funding committed by our partner
- The support of the venture studio and platform services, we surround the startup with world-class expertise in every discipline required to build a market-leading company.
