Director, Product Management

Summary

Join Weedmaps as a Director of Product Management and lead several product lines, ensuring successful execution and cross-functional alignment to meet roadmap and revenue goals. You will manage a team of product professionals, translate product vision into strategic business decisions, and drive accountability for results. This role requires a passion for the cannabis economy and marketplaces, expertise in user needs, and experience in launching products at scale. As a people manager, you will mentor product managers, manage teams, and navigate matrixed organizations. You will collaborate with various teams, including analytics, design, marketing, and sales, to build a world-class marketplace. The position offers a hybrid work model and a chance to contribute to a leading technology company in the cannabis industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of revenue-generating product leadership experience, with a focus on marketplaces and strong user communities, with 4+ years of managing and developing leaders
• Experience with at least two of the three following: subscription, e-commerce and advertising business models
• Experience working with engineering teams, business stakeholders managing expectations and building cross-functional alignment
• Experience with standard forms of product development styles (agile, waterfall)
• Proven experience building, growing, inspiring and retaining a collaborative and results-focused team
• Ability to develop KPIs for measuring team performance and deliver performance reviews for your team member
• Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction based on customer needs and revenue targets
• Natural curiosity and growth mindset, with an obsession for the details
• Proven experience delivering results
• Effective and persuasive written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Lead several product lines and ensure successful execution and cross-functional alignment for delivery of your team’s product roadmap and revenue goals
• Lead a team of product professionals responsible for key areas of our marketplace offerings
• Partner with other leaders to translate product vision into strategic and technological business decisions
• Drive accountability and metrics ownership to translate strategy into results
• Lead efforts to make it easier for our shoppers to learn about cannabis, engage with brands, find dispensaries and delivery services, and order products online
• Help your team innovate to create amazing products that deliver an amazing consumer experience, and business results for Weedmaps and our customers
• Command a product department to innovate, drive revenue, and maximize user retention across our entire product portfolio
• Partner with leaders across the company to maintain a holistic product roadmap on an ongoing basis
• Study cannabis industry trends, competition, stakeholder feedback, and analytics to make well-informed product decisions
• Maintain a deep understanding of our customers and their needs
• Maintain a deep understanding of the competitive landscape across our entire product portfolio
• Identify new growth business opportunities through quantitative research, UI/UX studies, and reviews of industry standard methodologies
• Ensure that all initiatives have thorough rational documented and communicated by all product owners
• Work closely with the Sales and Marketing teams to define business cases, requirements and user journey maps for new and existing customer needs and revenue opportunities
• Partner with Engineering leadership to achieve alignment and max efficiency across product and engineering teams
• Influence quality and productivity improvements through involvement in the development of new and improved procedures, process innovations, training, and changes in corporate culture
• Recruit, hire, grow, and retain top-performing talent
• Leverage KPIs for measuring team performance and deliver performance reviews for your team members
• Drive and champion a culture of continuous learning to improve execution and remove roadblocks
• Ensure all team members are highly proficient in all of our tooling (self-service analytics, feature rollout and experimentation, project management, and acceptance testing)

Benefits

• Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision: Employee - employer paid premium 100%
• Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
• For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
• Mental Health benefits: Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
• Employee Training
• Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
• Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Family planning/fertility
• Identity theft protection
• Legal access to a network of attorneys
• Paid parental leave
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• Numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow your professional skills
• Endless opportunities to network and connect with other Weedmappers through speaker series, Employee Resource Groups, happy hours, team celebrations, game nights, and much more!