VP of Product
Capchase is a growth stage startup on a mission to automate everything that touches a $ for the $500B+ recurring revenue industry. To carry out this mission, we've received $400M+ in funding from some of the best VCs in the space like Bling Capital (Airtable, Gitlab, Lyft, Square), SciFI (Stripe, Brex), Caffeinated (OpenDoor, Airtable) and QED (Nubank, Klarna).
We pursue simple ideas with ruthless execution: in a bit over a year, we’ve pushed to market three innovative products to automate non-dilutive financing (Grow), expense management (Extend) and treasury (Earn) - three pillars to any company’s FinOps. Over the last 12 months (and we’re only 18 months old!) we’ve achieved several milestones:
➡3,000 companies registered
💰$2B funding made available to companies, with 25% in European markets
🏃🏽♀️ 5,000+ months additional runway
🙌🏽 110 Capchasers (up from 16 last year) in 12 cities around the world
🌎 10 countries in which we operate
📈 2,300% annual company growth
👫Built an awesome culture.
We are seeking an experienced Vice President of Product to help us concept and deliver new products to our customers while optimizing our existing products. In this role, you will ensure that we remain focused on delivering customer-centric solutions, setting product strategies that you translate into action. This role will report directly into the CEO.
Our product team works cross-functionally across every team in our organization (engineering, marketing, sales, finance, capital markets and underwriting) to identify solutions to problems and find ways to deliver them. You and your team will ultimately be responsible for crafting the vision, defining and defending product roadmaps, and taking the roadmap from ideation to execution.
Understand our customers’ needs as well as our internal stakeholders needs. Ensure strategic product development is founded on data, including insights from customer research, competitive intelligence, and internal data.
Work closely with our engineering team to ensure they are positioned to deliver on product requirements consistently and on-schedule. Ship consistently by using agile principles. Work with product managers to ensure bias for shipping.
Measure the impact of the products we build and if we delivered the results we planned for. Understand the ‘why’ when we over or under-deliver results and incorporate learnings into future product development.
Develop product vision and roadmap, ensuring we are focused on delivering highest value products that guide us toward company goals with the highest degree of independence and ownership. Work with leadership to get alignment on our roadmap.
Set up your team to develop product roadmaps for themselves with consistent delivery of releases that ultimately drive meaningful business results. Oversee the overall roadmap across all of product to ensure we are on-strategy and on-schedule.
Become an expert in our industry and products. As the VP of Product you must get up to speed on our products, our customers, and our industry quickly and in-depth.
Ensure cross-functional teamwork in product development. Deliver consistent communication to cross-functional stakeholders on product strategy and deliverables.
Mentor team by delivering regular feedback to team members so that they can deliver the best possible results and grow professionally.
Control of planning, staffing, budgeting, and managing expense priorities for the Product dept.
15+ years of experience in product management or analogous function discipline.
You have an obsession to build product solving customer challenges while having a disruptor mindset to invent and reshape lending.
Experience leading complex strategic initiatives. Distinctive problem-solving and analysis skills.
You are willing to roll up your sleeves to dive into the data and insights that will fuel our toughest decisions, you love working with kind, smart colleagues who share a commitment to putting the customer first.
A passionate leader who has successfully led, motivated and developed a global team.
Although we offer lots of flexibility, the ideal candidate is based in NYC or able to come to our offices 2 times a week.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.