Vice President of Product $400,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
Are you a product leader prepared to harness AI in reshaping the fundamentals of education? We are seeking someone to take charge of our Education vertical and assume ownership of the mission to help students learn with greater effectiveness. This position centers on catalyzing systemic transformation, not simply delivering incremental improvements.
This role is characterized by ownership of a strategic outcome rather than management of process. You will define an objective for our Education vertical and be empowered to realize it. You will personally write the master "Brain Lift" that encodes our strategy and establishes the portfolio roadmap ensuring all our educational products function as a unified whole. You will guide a team of accomplished Product Owners, functioning as a player-coach who stays immersed in the most vital work.
The conventional one-size-fits-all educational model does not serve the individual learner. Our methodology is to construct a new system grounded in learning science and AI to provide genuinely individualized instruction. We are demonstrating that education can be simultaneously deeply personal and profoundly effective.
This role diverges from a typical VP of Product position. If you favor managing process over owning outcomes, or wish to delegate essential strategic work, this is not the appropriate fit. We seek a leader who is intensely analytical, a clear first-principles thinker, and unwavering in pursuit of the stated objective.
You will guide a talented team of product owners and collaborate directly with the founders to direct the entire vertical. The metric for your success is straightforward: clear, data-supported evidence that your strategy measurably enhanced how students learn. If you are prepared for a challenge of this magnitude and accountability, let's talk.
What you will be doing
- Architecting the Domain Knowledge: Own and advance the master "Education Domain BrainLift," synthesizing market and team insights into a unified, cohesive strategy that aligns the entire vertical on pivotal product decisions.
- Driving the Portfolio Roadmap: Convert the Domain BrainLift into an outcome-oriented roadmap for the complete product portfolio. You will establish the sequence of work that generates compounding value and supplies the strategic rationale to guide your team's execution.
- Player-Coach Execution: Operate as a player-coach: conduct your own OODA loops on critical outcomes to establish the standard, while coaching your team by reviewing their iterations and refining their insights for unified portfolio execution.
What you will NOT be doing
- Acting as a pure people manager. Your central role is to direct the vertical's strategy and establish the execution standard, not merely manage headcount, budgets, and process.
- Executing a top-down strategy handed to you. You are expected to personally author the unified, overarching strategy for the entire vertical, synthesizing insights from the ground up.
- Creating static, long-term roadmaps. Your portfolio roadmap is a living document. You will guide the portfolio with agility, leveraging weekly learnings from your team's iterations and your own.
- Overseeing a "feature factory." Your success is measured by achieving the strategic outcome for the vertical. This demands creating genuine cross-pollination between products, not merely shipping more features in isolation.
Candidate requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in a product leadership role where you personally shaped the product vision and owned the core problem-solution hypothesis
- Previous experience launching at least one successful product (not just a feature or a module) that reached real users (not internal tools) from scratch (not joining partway through the development process) to launch (achieving at least $1 million in revenue)
- Professional experience using AI in your daily work (e.g., research, analysis, synthesis, strategy)
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