The role you'll play:

For the last ten years, CB Insights has been aggregating, analyzing, and advising on the trends shaping emerging technology.

Now we’re on a mission to connect the companies building the future with the buyers who can propel their businesses forward.

As our new Director of Product for Marketplace, you’re a key player in bringing that to life.

You’ll develop the value proposition and experiences for emerging technology vendors to grow awareness, beat their competition, and engage potential investors, acquirers, partners, and customers through the CB Insights platform.

You’ll balance the needs of different users, ensuring both vendors and buyers alike build trust as they transact with one another. 

And most of all you’ll empower new technology companies and the people who build them to succeed.

Your Main Tasks:

• Own and advocate for the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the marketplace product line, including how vendors and buyers connect, the vendor experience, and reviews and reputation.
• Set, measure, and drive the metrics that represent your strategy. Report and be held accountable.
• Build a small team of product managers. Recruit, onboard, engage, retain, and grow top tier talent.
• Lead and collaborate cross-functionally, including:
• With the Design team on researching, testing, and creating intuitive user experiences.
• With the Technical Program Management, Engineering and Data Science teams on expanding technical possibilities while ensuring tightly scoped products.
• With the Research Products, Intelligence Unit (research), and Marketing teams on vendor acquisition, engagement, and retention, resolving capabilities across technology, people and process.

What you bring to the table:

• At least 8 years of experience in B2B product management. 
• Marketplace experience is strongly preferred.
• Deep user empathy. Proven at discovering and ruthlessly prioritizing customer problems.
• Entrepreneurial. Has shipped new software products from ideation through delivery while in rapid growth mode. Strong bias to execution.
• Player-coach. This is not a role for a professional manager. 
• Driven by commercial and user outcomes.
• Structured and quantitative thinker.
• Effective and compelling communicator, including with executive audiences.