LeadFull-time · New York City, or remote
Product lead
You own this function and set its direction.
Decide what we build next across the candidate platform and the employer, college, coach and recruiter products.
About the role
NextChapter has a candidate product and products for employers, colleges, coaches and recruiters. The product lead decides what gets built, in what order, and whether it worked, using customer feedback and usage data.
Seniority: Senior leader. Owns product and reports to the founder. Sets priorities for engineering with the technology lead. Comparable titles: Director of Product, Head of Product.
Who you work with
- Candidate product
- B2B products
What you will do
- Own the roadmap and a short, ranked priority list.
- Turn customer feedback and usage data into decisions.
- Work with the founder and engineering on priorities, privacy and trust.
- Define success measures and review them monthly.
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in product management, including software products you shipped and the outcomes they produced.
- Strong user research and data habits.
- Judgment about privacy in a sensitive area.
- Hands-on use of AI tools in product work: research, specs and analysis.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with both consumer and B2B products.
- You have built AI-assisted products.
Skills and tools
- roadmapping
- a/b testing
- agile
- figma
- sql
- google analytics
- cross-functional leadership
What you need to know
- Customer interviews and usage analysis
- Pricing and packaging
- Privacy and trust in a job-search product
How you work
- You decide with incomplete information and revisit when evidence changes.
- You say no to good ideas that are not the next one.
- You work closely with engineers, and write specs they can build from.
In your first 90 days
- A written roadmap.
- A prioritized fix list drawn from user feedback.
- Billing and checkout scoped with engineering.