Director of Product

The role

The Director of Product will lead product strategy, development, and innovation. This person will build the product management function from the ground up and work with the CEO to create an evidence-backed roadmap.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain a product strategy connecting investment to strategic and financial objectives.
• Create a disciplined process for gathering and evaluating ideas.
• Establish criteria for when to build, change direction, or discontinue initiatives.
• Partner with engineering, design, and leadership to ship products on a predictable cadence.
• Build and defend the revenue potential and development cost of roadmap bets to the CFO.
• Ensure new products meet operational, financial, regulatory, and risk requirements.
• Take full ownership of the product.
• Identify and evaluate new product opportunities through customer interaction.
• Use data, customer research, and experimentation to validate bets.
• Hire and develop the product management function.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product management and strategy.
• Experience leading product at a company of comparable size and complexity.
• Track record of setting product strategy from ambiguity and defending sequencing decisions.
• Experience conducting product discovery, customer research, and market analysis.
• Experience building and leading a product team, including hiring the first few members.
• Strong technical fluency to work with engineering on architecture and feasibility.
• Highly analytical and data-driven with strong pattern-recognition and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate product strategy and trade-offs to senior leadership.
• Financial fluency to model revenue potential, development cost, and opportunity cost.
• Comfort operating at a founder-led, profitable company.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, financial services, payments, lending, factoring, transportation technology, or another transaction-heavy financial environment
• Comfort with compliance and risk constraints (KYC/KYB, lending, payments)

Benefits

• Generous PTO
• Monthly Mental Break Day
• Parental leave
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Life insurance
• 401k with company match
• Work from home (or wherever)

About the company

Bobtail is dedicated to increasing happiness by eliminating inefficiencies in the supply chain. They value teams over individuals and encourage experimentation and iteration.