PerformYard is a profitable, growth-stage B2B SaaS company transforming how organizations manage and measure employee performance. Our AI-enabled platform is widely adopted for its customizable performance processes, ease of use, and measurable business impact. As we scale, PerformYard has significant opportunities to accelerate growth by creating AI-native workflows, expanding into adjacent talent modules, and modernizing our user experience.
We are seeking a customer-obsessed, strategically minded Vice President of Product to translate PerformYard's AI-native vision into validated, high-impact product experiences. By delivering AI-native innovation, modernizing the user experience to accelerate adoption, and expanding monetization pathways, this leader will directly impact ARR growth and long-term market leadership.
Reporting directly to the CTO and partnering closely with the executive team, the VP of Product will build and scale a high-performing product organization, drive a culture of data-informed decision making, and ensure product investments translate into tangible business outcomes. With a mandate to accelerate innovation and unlock durable competitive advantages, this leader will be central to PerformYard’s next phase of growth.
This is a 100% Remote Position - now & forever
Requirements
What You’ll Do:
Product Strategy & Vision
- Own and evolve the long-term product vision, embedding AI-native innovation into the core platform and future offerings
- Translate company strategy into a multi-year product roadmap aligned with ARR expansion, market positioning, and enterprise value creation
- Identify and prioritize high-impact growth opportunities across product, pricing, packaging, and adjacent talent modules
- Establish durable competitive advantages and defensible differentiation within the HR tech landscape
- Lead product discovery practices grounded in customer insight, market intelligence, and data
- Maintain a regular cadence of direct customer engagement to ground product decisions in real user needs
Growth & Market Expansion
- Drive product-led growth initiatives that improve adoption, expansion, retention, and customer lifetime value
- Develop scalable monetization strategies, including AI-driven feature differentiation and packaging evolution
- Own the end-to-end user experience vision and partner with Design to modernize the product interface, ensuring AI-native features are intuitive and adoption-ready
- Partner with Sales and Marketing to sharpen positioning, messaging, and go-to-market effectiveness
- Evaluate build/partner/buy decisions and guide product integrations to accelerate strategic growth
Product Execution & Leadership
- Lead roadmap execution in partnership with Engineering, ensuring high-impact delivery with measurable outcomes
- Partner with Engineering leadership on platform modernization, scalability, and AI-first development priorities
- Develop team members and build a strong leadership bench to sustain organizational performance
- Lead a high-performance culture of accountability, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration
- Maintain operational excellence and efficiency as teams scale
Executive & Board Partnership
- Serve as a key member of the executive leadership team to drive growth and enterprise value
- Present product strategy, roadmap priorities, and growth impact to the Board with clarity and confidence
- Advise on capital allocation, market opportunities, and strategic product investments to maximize business impact
- Quantify the business impact of product initiatives through clear, outcome-based reporting
Key Metrics and Success Criteria
- Product and Customer: Adoption rates, feature utilization, customer satisfaction and retention
- Revenue and Growth: ARR growth, upsell/cross-sell performance and churn reduction
- Product Delivery: Roadmap predictability, AI feature adoption, and time-to-value
- Team and Organization: Leadership development, team engagement, retention and performance
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree with a track record of leadership success in Product leadership roles within B2B SaaS companies
- Proven experience scaling product organizations in growth-stage companies (50-250+ employees)
- Demonstrated success partnering with executive teams to align product strategy with business objectives and customer outcomes
- Hands-on experience building or scaling AI-native products, not just adding AI features to existing workflows, but fundamentally rethinking user experiences around AI capabilities
- Deep expertise driving product-led growth and monetization strategy in subscription-based SaaS models
- Strong executive presence with exceptional Board and investor communication skills
- Data-driven mindset, comfortable with aligning product investments to ROI and value creation
- Decisive leader who thrives in fast paced, scaling environments
Benefits
In addition to your compensation plan we also have medical, dental, and vision health insurance benefits w/ HSA plan, disability insurance, 401k plan, generous PTO, paid holidays and other benefits.
Top Skills
What We Do
PerformYard's performance management software provides flexible features for HR and a simple employee experience.
We believe that performance management strategy should be driven by organizational goals and employee needs, not the constraints of your software. That is why we focus on providing the most flexible performance management solution. With PerformYard you can customize the software to fit the strategy that's right for your organization - 360s, project based reviews, ratings scales, continuous feedback, cascading goals, anything.
Performance management is also about people and human connections. Performance discussions are important, and you don't want software getting in the middle, mucking things up. PerformYard provides a simple employee experience that facilitates feedback and quality conversations. It doesn't try to insert itself at every opportunity or replace important conversations.
We also provide dedicated customer success managers for every customer. From onboarding, to employee trainings, to ongoing support you'll have someone at your side who has done it before.
PerformYard integrates with most major HRIS/Payroll systems including ADP, BambooHR, Gusto, Rippling, UKG, Paycom, Workday, and Paylocity.
