Head of Product

Summary

Join Halo, a fast-growing B2B startup connecting scientists with companies, as their Head of Product. Reporting to the CEO, you will be a key member of senior leadership, driving product strategy and execution. This role requires significant experience in product management, particularly with enterprise products and scaling marketplace businesses. You will partner with various teams to define product vision, manage day-to-day responsibilities, and ensure alignment with customer needs. The position offers the opportunity to shape the company's strategic direction in a dynamic, seed-stage environment. Halo provides competitive benefits, including equity, research donation matching, volunteer bonuses, and comprehensive health insurance.

Requirements

• Have 7+ years of experience in product management, with significant exposure to enterprise products and proven success scaling marketplace businesses
• Have 2+ years of experience in a leadership role managing people and driving cross-functional initiatives
• Have worked in a product role at a startup with fewer than 100 employees
• Be a highly-analytical problem-solver adept at translating quantitative data and qualitative insights into thoughtful roadmap decisions
• Be energized by both strategic leadership and hands-on tactical execution, comfortable writing specs one moment and presenting to the board the next
• Have prior experience with enterprise customers and deeply understand their needs and buying processes
• Be able to thrive in ambiguous environments while creating structure and repeatable processes for the team
• Have strong product sense and can understand both strategic and tactical decisions across the user experience
• Take your work seriously but don't take yourself too seriously. While technically a job, this shouldn't feel like work because you're inspired by the mission and energized by the challenge of building both product and company

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO/Senior Leadership to craft the product vision and translate it into clear quarterly priorities and week-to-week sprint commitments that align the entire organization
• Contribute to the strategic planning processes and build strong cross-functional relationships to ensure cohesive execution of product initiatives across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams
• Own the day-to-day product management responsibilities including writing specs, working directly with engineers and designers, running sprint routines, and coordinating feature launches
• Partner with the Marketplace Operations to drive the roadmap for marketplace initiatives, including the development of Roboscout, our AI-scouting tool, and internal operational systems to improve matching and marketplace liquidity
• Partner deeply with GTM teams to understand Enterprise customer needs and priority jobs-to-be-done, ensuring we deliver value through product features, customer service, and operational excellence
• Define, track and report on key metrics that reveal actionable insights on performance and product usage by segment
• Build and maintain relationships with strategic customers through quarterly business reviews, ensuring alignment between customer needs and roadmap initiatives

Benefits

• Share in the upside . Early employees have an outsized impact on a startup’s success. It’s only fair that you receive meaningful equity in return
• Donate to research . Make a donation to scientific research you care about and we’ll match your donation dollar-for-dollar
• Volunteer for research . Participate in a research study through ResearchMatch, a nonprofit funded by the NIH, and get a $200 bonus check
• Stay healthy . We don’t ever want your health to be a source of stress and offer top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Escape for the Winter . From December to March, Halo will fly you anywhere in the country to escape the cold and get some Vitamin D