Senior Director of Product

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Toptal

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B2B • Recruitment • Marketplace

Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, marketing experts, finance experts, product managers, and project managers in the world. The company provides businesses with access to highly skilled professionals to tackle their most important projects. Toptal's offerings allow companies to quickly and flexibly hire top talent for various roles, including developers, designers, and finance experts, among others. These professionals are rigorously tested and vetted to ensure high quality and an excellent trial-to-hire success rate of 98%. With a global presence and a focus on embracing advanced skills such as blockchain and AI, Toptal is leading the future of on-demand work. Companies rely on Toptal for high-skilled freelance talent across various sectors, ensuring they can build amazing teams rapidly and efficiently as per their project needs.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

🏪 Marketplace

💰 Seed Round on 2012-06

📋 Description

• Own the overall strategy and roadmap for our technology and customer-facing products, enabling our Engineering teams to deliver effective solutions faster, and to improve the stability and performance of our systems. • Provide thought leadership, strategic insight, and clear communication (written and verbal) to your team and the rest of the organization on your product’s strategy and roadmap. • Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team. • Guide the prioritization of initiatives as the team scales. • Lead and grow a team of amazing Product Managers, helping them do the best work of their careers. • Help drive the Product Management practice and culture, both in how we work and the design of the organization. • Work cross-functionally with other teams such as Executives, Operations, and Legal to make sure their objectives are met, opinions are considered, and plans communicated. • Accomplish work objectives through leading and supervising other Toptal team members within the function or subfunction (or on the Product team). • Establish objectives and initiatives for the team, recommend the team’s structure and jobs, and organize, assign, delegate, oversee, and monitor work. • Coach and mentor team members, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and implement performance improvement plans, if needed. • Apply system-analyst techniques and procedures, including consulting with users to determine hardware, software, or systems functional specifications.

🎯 Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Economics). • At least 10 years of proven software Product Management experience. • At least 3 years of experience leading other Product Managers. • Prior experience working as a Software Engineer is a strong plus. • Knowledge of AI product development processes is a plus. • Comfortable working with SQL or spreadsheets to analyze data, as well as conducting research with internal and external users. • Ability to creatively craft solutions through data and a user-centric approach. • Be meticulous and have a high bar for quality when writing user stories, brainstorming technical approaches, and testing a feature before it is released. • Be humble, willing to learn, and do whatever is needed to help us accomplish our goals. • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. • Experience using agile development methodologies with globally distributed teams and the ability to keep up with a fast-paced and global company. • Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts. • You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.

🏖️ Benefits

• remote position • communication must be submitted in English