Scholly, one of Built In’s “Best Places to Work 2022”, is seeking a Vice President of Product Experience to join our growing team! In this newly created role, the VP of Product Experience will be responsible for aligning the expectations of both the product and the business by creating a product vision and strategy to address current and future market needs. The VP of Product Experience will manage the teams responsible for the full product lifecycle of all Scholly products and work closely with internal stakeholders while enforcing a culture of best practices. The VP of Product Experience will work remotely and report to the CTO.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Join an organization that is passionate about making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Scholly provides an easy way to find scholarships for high school seniors, current undergraduates, and graduate students of all ages and walks of life. Designed to streamline the scholarship search process, Scholly’s newly refined adaptive matching engine promises to deliver smarter, targeted lists of scholarships. We are constantly seeking to improve upon the outdated process that requires students to fill out long, tiresome forms that often fail to deliver relevant results. To date, we’ve helped students secure over $100,000,000 in college scholarships. Scholly is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values excellence through diversity.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Set short- and long-term strategies with far reaching impact for the Product team.
• Generate high level insights from formative research, market gaps, or technical insights.
• Partner closely with the Engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule.
• Understand customer needs and gather product requirements. Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy.
• Create and implement processes and procedures for product strategy and translating visions into technical work streams.
• Design and drive the overall vision and product strategy to a coherent whole.
• Build and work in an Agile and Kanban process and implement tracking and insights for product management.

THE VALUE YOU’LL DELIVER:

• Provide organizational leadership including resource management, hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
• Grow, scale, and lead a high performing product experience with high standards of delivery.
• Drive operational rigor by applying best practices and processes through rapid organizational growth.
• Enforce the product culture so every team member deeply cares about velocity, performance, and quality of individual and team outputs. 
• Identify and execute projects focused on eliminating waste and delay, cost reduction, and accelerating delivery.

MUST HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:

We look for people who value agility, passion, and teamwork. Bring your expertise and build upon what you do best for our customers, partners, team, and you. To do this, you will have:

• Bachelor's degree in a technology or business-related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of Technical Product Management experience.
• Experience driving elements of the product development lifecycle such as product vision, go-to-market strategy, driving requirements, and product launch.
• Experience managing people and establishing processes and procedures.
• Experience managing day-to-day technical and design direction.
• Experience effectively working with multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Sales, Customer Support, Finance and Marketing.
• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with FinTech or related industry preferred.