Role Description
UP.Labs is seeking a proven VP of Product with a track record of scaling product teams in 0>1 environments to lead a SaaS scheduling optimization platform rapidly scaling within our portfolio. As our product leader within this portfolio organization, you’ll be iterating new product offerings onto a product that has already withstood numerous stage-gating and validation phases by both UP.Labs and our corporate partner. You’ll also have access to the UP.Partners ecosystem - an expansive team across product, engineering, design, analytics, marketing, legal, talent, finance, and venture capital available to help advise & scale the portfolio organization quickly.
In this role you will:
Immediately step into a business built for success - quickly utilizing the UP.Ecosystem for advisory and connections, work directly with a highly qualified CEO and corporate partner closely invested in the success of this org., and lead the business to achieve product market fit.
Oversee and lead all products at the company; leading with a hands-on approach to building processes, playbooks, goals, and sets expectations with internal teams, corporate partners, investors, and UP.Labs.
Lead in go-to-market strategy challenges to scale across multiple markets, working directly with Marketing, Finance, and Data teams to define the product roadmap.
Manage the Product P&L and determine the most essential KPIs & goals while simultaneously building a team to execute on them.
Partner with UP.Labs and portfolio technical leadership to create a product and technical vision, ensuring an uncompromising focus on customer experience.
As the business grows, hire, retain, and mentor a world-class team consisting of diverse skill-sets; enhance employee performance via evaluation and coaching.
You should have:
Success as a cross-functional people manager of an operationally complex, high-growth environment with an ability to be hands-on while allocating resources correctly.
Leadership experience; preferably early-stage, venture backed growth B2B SaaS companies in spaces such as route optimization, airline simulation, fleet management, logistics, supply chain or similar
Experience defining early digital products and working with B2B customers
Extensive practical track record of designing requirements for SaaS Products to fit business and technical needs.
Experience in AI and machine learning applications
Experience building hypergrowth start-up ventures, preferably as an early-stage leader
Reputation as a well-rounded project manager with exceptional go-to-market and product instincts; multiple teams together under common objectives.
High EQ and low ego; you carry an executive presence regardless of years of experience.
You’ve helped to recruit and retain world-class talent, while developing a values-oriented, high-performance culture.
Exceptional collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.
UP.Labs Summary:
We build high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. Our vision is to transform the moving world by pairing leading corporations and entrepreneurs with a proven methodology for launching and scaling software and hardware companies.
Our platform is unique in three ways:
Risk: We reward our entire team and ecosystem of partners with meaningful equity
Technology: We build and launch scalable technology products that form the basis for each venture
Industry Focus: We stay focused on the underlying fabric of mobility
We work with corporate investors over a multi-year period to launch a portfolio of ventures. Our team is dedicated to the first year of a new venture’s life cycle: from ideation to minimum viable product build - and beyond.