Director, Product & Design

| New York, NY, USA | Hybrid
Employer Provided Salary: 215,000 Annually
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About us:

Chief is the largest network of senior executive women, representing more than 10,000 companies and 77% of Fortune 100 companies. Chief members are located across the U.S. and 40% are in the C-Suite. 

Chief is designed to help our members maximize their leadership impact through powerful connections, valuable insights, and executive development. We offer a wide range of services both in-person and on our digital platform. We have clubhouse locations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, DC where our members can come together in community including at Chief-hosted events. 

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are central to our community and how we work. Knowing that our people are the most important driver of our success, we focus on building teams where the power of diverse voices, identities, perspectives, and experiences is celebrated.

Chief is backed by renowned investors including CapitalG, General Catalyst, Inspired Capital, and Primary Ventures and we’ve been recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

About the Role:  

Chief is seeking an experienced Product Leader to lead the product and design teams responsible for Chief’s portfolio of digital products. Your role will be to lead the overall product strategy and roadmap while partnering closely with key business leads across our Learning & Development, Member Success, and Events & Community to drive the digital enablement of those services. This role is critical to setting the strategic direction for our digital products and will report directly to the Chief Product & Experience Officer.

What you’ll do: 

  • Develop and communicate a clear digital product strategy and roadmap aligned with business objectives
  • Lead and inspire a cross-functional team of product managers and designers
  • Identify new opportunities and areas of investment to build innovative products 
  • Champion user-centric design principles and ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience across digital products
  • Define clear measurable goals to ensure teams are set up for success and regularly report on product metrics
  • Utilize data and research-driven insights to measure product performance and make informed decisions
  • Collaborate closely with key stakeholders (e.g., Learning & Development, Member Success, Events, Community, Research, Data, Software Engineering) to to align product initiatives with overall business goals
  • Drive best practices to guide the team and establish ways of working

What you’ve done and enjoy doing:

  • Deep experience managing and building well-loved products in a B2C context, ideally across both web and mobile
  • Experience leading product and design teams with proven ability to hire and grow talent 
  • Experience operating in ambiguity with a proven track record of building products that have clear impact to the business 
  • Deep experience leveraging data to make informed decisions with proven ability to set clear and measurable objectives 
  • Strong product intuition, showcasing deep user empathy in everything you do 
  • Proven track record in building collaborative partnerships across multi-disciplinary teams
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, with the ability to influence and communicate cross-functionally and at all levels of the organization
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States

Note: Candidates based in NYC preferred

Why You'll Want to Work Here:

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Flexible vacation policy and 4.5 day work weeks
  • 20 weeks of paid gender neutral parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision packages, 401(k)
  • Opportunity to work for a startup focused on driving real change for women in business
  • Opportunity to create and attend inspiring experiences and events with leaders of the industry
  • Access to our ongoing virtual Chief member exclusive content, including workshops, thought leadership, and iconic speakers
  • Lifestyle and Learning Stipends available

While we’re committed to remaining compliant and adhering to mandates, for us, pay transparency is more than a consideration of what’s lawful and unlawful but rather, an opportunity to disclose what’s required, and what we think is a fair and equitable compensation framework.

At Chief, we want to hire, develop, and retain the best talent, making Chief a top destination to accelerate your career. Our compensation framework is a key part of our vision, and we continually revisit and invest in our philosophy and framework to ensure we remain competitive and relevant, on a quest to achieve our vision.

The pay transparency mandates, as well as our own policies and practices, are a means of narrowing the gender pay gap and fostering an engaged and positive working environment that builds trust, on our mission to change the face of leadership.

The base salary for this role is: $215,000

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Technology we use

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Location

In the heart of Flatiron, we are surrounded by delicious food, fun bars, beautiful Washington Square Park, shopping and entertainment.

What are Chief Perks + Benefits

Chief Benefits Overview

Chief takes employee wellbeing seriously. We are happy to provide the option to be fully or partially remote to most of our employees. We provide a fun and hard working environment. We have year round half day Fridays, access to our member events and materials, discounts and so much more!
Discount Partners: Saysh, Tertulia, Good Inside, Corepower Yoga, Trilogy Spa, Squarespace, Bolster, Hotel Zena & Barrys

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
We partner with several organizations that align with our mission to change the face of leadership including Raise the Barr, National Women’s Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
We’ve adopted a virtual first model. Based on team and location, team members may be eligible to work remotely.
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Inclusivity, diversity and representation are essential building blocks needed to create an inclusive and innovative work environment. This is why our leadership team is as diverse as our employee pop
Mandated unconscious bias training
D&I are embedded in all our principles with a deeper focus in our Inclusion value. Every people leader will be trained on this which includes themes of mitigating bias, upstander behaviors, etc.
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Chief currently has nine employee resource groups focused on specific communities across ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation and gender expression, generation, nationality, and social class.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Unbiased job descriptions, interview questions and processes Relationships with diversity focused hiring partnerships
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
All dental benefits are fully paid for by the company
Vision insurance
All vision benefits are fully paid for by the company
Health insurance
We have a variety of options that will provide comfort and security to our team members - and all plans are fully covered by the company!
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
We want to make sure that our team has any additional support that they need. We have a partnership with an online mental health platform to make it super easy to have access to support.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
We care about our team members' futures. Our team members are able to contribute into their 401k anytime throughout the year.
Company equity
We want our team members to be all in. All team members are granted equity as part of their compensation package and have the opportunity to receive more equity throughout their time at the company.
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave
Childcare benefits
We offer Dependent Care FSA, where parents are able to use these pre-tax funds for child care expenses.
Generous parental leave
20 weeks parental leave + 4 weeks of flexible re-onboarding
Family medical leave
Restricted work hours
4.5 Day Work Week - Chief has perpetual half day Fridays for most roles!
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation + Time Off
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
In addition to flexible vacation time, the offices and clubhouse shut down between Christmas and the New Year.
Sabbatical
Chief is proud to offer our employees, who have been with us 4+ years, the option to take a well deserved sabbatical.
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Chief offers pre-tax commuter benefits.
Company-sponsored outings
Every year we bring all employees together for a 2-day event called Chiefchella, to connect as a community, get inspired and have fun! (see pics!)
Free snacks and drinks
Chief offers fun snack and drinks in our NYC Home Office.
Company-sponsored happy hours
We like to find time to celebrate together and do that when we can!
Fitness stipend
Chief offers a wellness stipend for you to use as you see fit.
Home-office stipend for remote employees
We provide stipends for those who are eligible annual. They are paid out quarterly.
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Chief employees receive annual an individual Learning Fund of $750 & investment into group learning with their trams. In some cases we enable access to specialized knowledge or certifications.
Lunch and learns
We launched a training series for all employees to enable growth. The first series is Continuous Feedback, which reframes feedback as empowerment and builds skills for receiving and giving feedback.
Promote from within
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

On top of all of this, Chief also invests in our employees through ongoing learning and development. All Chief employees have access to our ongoing virtual Chief member exclusive content, including workshops, thought leadership, and iconic speakers like Cynthia Nixon, Stacey Abrams and Michelle Obama. At Chief, your ongoing development will be supported by your manager and an employee experience team to make sure that you have avenues to progress.

We launched our first ever Chief Values Awards in 2022. We celebrated 2 winners for each value (Powerful, Inclusive, Real, Curious, Time Travel) and awarded them $500 cash plus $500 donated to a charity of their choice. We also had 3 winners that are were celebrated for living all of our values, who were awarded $1500 cash plus a $1500 donation to a charity of their choice. The awards were presented at Chiefchella.

In addition to the section on Nonprofit partnerships, we have many partnerships that engaged our Chief team and members to donate to causes that In 2022, after the Supreme Court’s decision on reproductive rights, Chief committed to donating $250,000 to organizations who give access to care. These included Planned Parenthood, National Abortion Foundation, NARAL ProChoice America and others.

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