Own Chariot’s product function, strategy, roadmap, prioritization, analytics, forecasting, and team structure across three payment product lines. Establish company-wide product processes and metrics, personally scope and ship high-impact initiatives, and lead and grow the PM team. Partner closely with founders, engineering, go-to-market, operations, and partnerships while maintaining strong customer focus and technical credibility.
💼 Job Description
Chariot is at an inflection point: three product lines (DAFpay, Gift Processing, Disbursements), $1.8B+ in annualized payment volume, and a product function that has been founder-led to date.
You'll own the product function at the highest level: the company-visible roadmap, prioritization across surfaces, product analytics, process, and team structure. You'll build the roadmapping and metrics discipline the company runs on — and grow and lead a small (soon larger) PM team.
This is not a pure leadership perch. Like everyone at Chariot, you stay hands-on: close to customers, close to the product, personally owning the most important problem statements while operating above the individual product areas and making everything fit together cohesively.
- Work with co-founders to clarify, execute, and measure progress towards product strategy and vision
- Decide where product should head and ensure every surface's work adds up to one coherent story
- Stand up the roadmapping function
- A living, company-visible roadmap; monthly cycle planning; GTM, ops, and partnerships learn about launches months before ship
- Define product metrics & forecasting
- Every problem statement has metrics the team drives toward; forecasts exist and are trusted
- Personally own top-level problem statements
- Stay in the work: scope, spec, and ship alongside the team
- Make the PM team successful
- The PMs reporting to you solve the right problems and deliver; you raise PM-to-eng leverage toward 1 PM : 2 engineers
👤 About You
Must Haves
- 12+ years in product
- You've led and grown product teams, as a product leader or founder, and scaled a company from Series A to Series D or beyond (or equivalent: grew through hypergrowth, e.g. 30 → 300 people)
- You come from an excellent company with a genuinely high product bar
- Still an operator: you can personally scope, spec, and ship
- Highly organized and detail-oriented: you bring the structure and process a fast-moving team needs, without ceremony
- Technically credible: you understand what it takes to build things and can hold your own with strong engineers
- NYC (in office Monday-Thursday)
Nice to Haves
- Fintech / payments / money-movement product experience
- Familiarity with the nonprofit sector or philanthropy
Chariot New York, New York, USA Office
575 8th Ave, New York, New York, United States, 10018 3011
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