SVP, Product

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🕒 April 6

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Riipen

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $3.8M Seed Round - Riipen on 2019-12

Education • SaaS • B2B

Riipen is a project-based learning platform that connects colleges, universities, training providers, employers, and learners to facilitate real-world industry projects. It enables educators to integrate experiential, work-based projects into curriculum, allows organizations to post projects and access student talent, and helps learners gain practical, resume-building experience and employable skills. The platform supports workforce development, project-based internships, remote/hybrid paid projects, and includes tools for project management and impact reporting.

📋 Description

• Own product strategy and portfolio decisions across all lines of business and delivery models • Ensure Riipen’s product portfolio aligns with the operating system and scales without exception debt • Define and evolve delivery models and experience design that produce meaningful and measurable outcomes for learners employers and partners • Ensure every product line meets or is on a path to meeting revenue growth, margin sustainability, and outcome reliability thresholds • Define leading quality gates that determine what scales and what requires redesign or exit • Make explicit deprecation decisions including stopping offerings without replacement readiness • Ensure deprecation is executed cleanly with clear communication and organizational alignment • Integrate Research and Impact as a core input into product decision making, not a downstream validation function • Ensure product decisions are informed by credible evidence and can be supported externally with partners, governments, and institutions • Partner with Research and Impact to define what outcomes must be demonstrated, how they are measured, and how that evidence informs product evolution • Ensure the voice of learners, employers, academic institutions, educators, workforce partners, and government stakeholders is consistently reflected in product decisions • Build and enforce structured customer research practices including interviews, feedback loops, and insight systems across all segments • Translate stakeholder insight into clear product tradeoffs rather than reactive changes or incremental expansion • Own product data priorities aligned to concrete decisions such as what to scale redesign or exit • Partner with Ops to ensure quality standards are enforceable operationalized and consistently applied • Partner with Revenue and Employer to ensure commercial narratives and employer readiness reflect actual product capability • Define the boundaries of what can and cannot be sold or delivered based on product reality • Provide clear product tradeoffs and portfolio rationale to the executive team and board • Ensure teams understand where to invest energy and where to let go • Continuously reduce complexity across the product portfolio to improve focus speed and outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Have owned portfolio level decisions where stopping work was as important as starting it • Have a track record of building products that deliver both strong economic outcomes and meaningful real world impact • Can integrate research, data, and stakeholder insight into clear product decisions rather than treating them as separate functions • Have built or led systems for continuous customer research across multiple stakeholder groups • Can define quality in ways that are observable enforceable and scalable • Use data and evidence to decide what to scale redesign or exit rather than justify existing plans • Are comfortable making irreversible decisions with incomplete information • Can align executive stakeholders around hard tradeoffs without creating drift • See focus, evidence, and deprecation as acts of stewardship that strengthen the company • Value a transparent, inclusive, and feedback-oriented culture and believe strong architectures empower people, not constrain them.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote/travel working opportunities (when appropriate) • 4-weeks of annual vacation • Extended Health and Dental benefits from your first day • Flexible health spending account • Work from home stipend