Head of Product

About Athena

Doing it all is costing you. What if you did not have to? At Athena, our mission is to build the world’s best delegation platform—one that combines the precision of highly trained Executive Partners with world class coaching and the speed and efficiency of cutting-edge AI. This Human+AI partnership enables our clients to delegate more effectively and focus on what matters most. Our clients are leaders who aim to 10x their impact, and we help make that possible. Athena saves clients over 2 million hours per year, powering their productivity and enabling growth through strategic support. We have found commercial success and now need to grow our small but mighty product team.

About the Role

We're looking for a Head of Product with strong end-to-end product experience, ideally in fast-paced startup environments. This person should be excited by the opportunity to work across both 0→1 and iterative optimization projects—especially those that support human-AI collaboration, productivity tooling, and complex workflows. The Athena Head of Product will be responsible for driving the product strategy and vision for Athena. This role requires a deep understanding of both product management best practices and the unique challenges of integrating AI with human-centric services. The Head of Product will work closely with global, cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, AI research, and customer success to ensure that our products meet the evolving needs of our clients while advancing Athena’s mission of transformative delegation. This is an executive level role perfect for someone who enjoys strategy and leading efforts to execute 0-->1 and beyond.

Ideal Background

• 10+ years of product management experience in Consumer-facing SaaS, Productivity Tools, Marketplaces, or similar platforms with exposure to AI

• Experience building OPERATIONAL workflow-heavy systems (e.g., onboarding, billing, operations tooling, or CRM/admin platforms)

• Comfort managing products with multiple user types (e.g., clients/customers vs. internal operations/EAs) in a marketplace context

• Track record of taking zero-to-one products from concept to launch and scaling products that reach large user bases

• Startup mindset — comfortable with ambiguity, quick to make decisions, and thoughtful about tradeoffs

Key Skills & Qualifications

• Systems thinker who can create elegant solutions across complex workflows

• Strong product discovery and strategy skills: adept at gathering insights, defining problems, and translating them into actionable roadmaps

• Experienced in prioritization and execution across competing needs while maintaining a customer-first mindset

• Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, partnering deeply with design, engineering, operations, and stakeholders

• Analytical and data-driven, with the ability to measure success and adjust strategy quickly

• Clear communicator who can articulate vision, rationale, and outcomes to diverse audiences

• Highly curious, proactive, and energized by fast feedback loops and iteration

Softer/Harder to assess qualities. Incredibly important for first few team members:

• Has done hard things - your experiences are not just incremental optimizations, but required strength or skill in multiple areas. This can be beyond just product, but aligning senior leadership across an org , learning an entirely new technical area or skill set, introducing a new metric of success etc.

• Curious and gets to the root of an issue - Are they able to dig five layers deep behind a request/project/metric and deeply understand what the root cause is? Or do they have a surface level understanding, where product becomes a services org

• Strong Communicators - Both written and verbal. Do they lose the thread of a story? Are they listening to the question and actually answering it? Do they take hints and feedback

• Able to prioritize ruthlessly and not be a people pleaser. Able to understand the long term vs. short term plays and deliver real impact, not just check off to-dos. Examples of how they prioritized between multiple good ideas