Vp Of R&d

Summary

Join FreeWill, an award-winning social-good startup, as their VP of R&D! Lead product, design, engineering, and IT/security teams of 30+ US-based members, and contribute to company-wide decisions. Scale the company from 200 to 300+ employees over the next two years. Build and manage a high-performing team, develop successful products, and foster a customer-centric approach. The role offers a competitive salary ($240,000-$260,000 base) plus an annual executive bonus, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to make a significant social impact. Work remotely from anywhere in the US (excluding AL, CO, LA). FreeWill is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading product or engineering teams
• 10+ years of experience in product or engineering management, including at a B2B SaaS company
• Proven success in recruiting high performing, diverse talent at high velocity and building an effective and inclusive team culture
• Expert at product management best practices including: feature work, growth work, scaling work, and PMF expansion
• Strong problem solving skills. Makes data-driven decisions, and is open-minded towards different perspectives
• Strong communication, emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills – up, down, across, and externally
• Acts with integrity, professionalism, low ego, and high self-awareness
• Enjoys collaboration, listening, and learning
• Comfort moving quickly in a fast-paced environment and making decisions with imperfect information
• Impact and results-focused

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a strategic, high-performing product, engineering, design, and IT/ security team
• Build a series of successful products that achieve product-market fit
• Hire and develop strong and diverse talent on the product, engineering, and design teams
• Work closely with our newly acquired tech team in Lahore, Pakistan to build and test MVPs of new products
• Advocate for the right resources at the right times to achieve goals
• Develop processes and best practices for product, design, and engineering departments to work well together
• Ensure strong collaboration across the tech teams and the go-to-market teams (sales, marketing, customer success)
• Help Co-CEOs articulate and perpetuate product vision throughout organization
• Manage Director of Product Strategy, who owns product roadmapping and manages the product management team
• Work closely with Director of Expansion to validate new product lines
• Act with and lead others to act with FreeWill’s values of focus, joy, kindness, and courage

Benefits

• Work from home
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible hours
• Competitive salary
• Commuter benefits
• Company stock options
• 401k
• Medical/Dental/Vision (some single coverage medical plans are 100% employer paid, subsidized rates for spousal, parent-child, and family coverage)
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Free One Medical membership
• Paid parental leave for all parents
• Regular (virtual) team events
• $250 monthly co-working budget which can be used for local co-working spaces
• $300 annual budget to outfit your home office or cover utility bills
• $1,000 referral bonuses for growing our FreeWill community
• $1,000 annual professional development budget