Code Climate is the world’s largest engineering intelligence platform, helping over 100,000 developers and software engineering leaders across thousands of engineering teams improve the efficacy of their people, process, and code. Our product suite helps run software engineering teams -- from improving the developer’s day to day experience to providing engineering leaders with intelligent data to help them make important decisions. 

The happiest developers work on the most productive teams, and vice versa. Code Climate has the opportunity to elevate the way engineering organizations build software by bringing data-driven insights into the art and science of programming. We’re looking for a bright, driven, empathetic VP Product to help make Code Climate’s technology an integral part of as many engineering teams as possible. You’ll lead the way for increased integrations while balancing the needs of SMB and enterprise clients.

As VP Product, you’ll work closely with the CEO, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success to develop a complete understanding of our customers’ challenges and curate a roadmap tailored to solving their acute needs. You’ll put the departmental structure in place, playing a critical role in guiding overall product direction, developing our systems and processes for product management, and ensuring we deliver the best possible experience to our customers while driving business results.

Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy & Function

• • Embody the Founder's vision, articulate ideas, prioritize milestones for action while identifying new product opportunities

• • Design a clear product roadmap supporting business objectives, driving consensus around the vision.

• • Grow the business by bringing a data-driven approach to product leadership, overseeing product strategy, pricing, and packaging

• • Elevating the role of both qualitative and quantitative data in product planning and continuous improvement. Establishing clear, measurable goals to assess product success and driving awareness of our successes and failures.

• Executive & Cross-Functional Leadership

• • Articulate the product vision and roadmap cross-functionally, advocate for the product organization, instilling confidence at all levels

• • Manage budget with revenue accountability tied to multiple products

• • Bring a philosophy around product tradeoffs and prioritization based on solving important problems vs. chasing near-term revenue

• • Collaborate and work extensively with the engineering team in the co-creation of products, ensuring predictability and accountability of sprints

• Domain

• • Determine the needs of enterprise customers, unlocking innovation capacity, and commercial growth while bringing an understanding of the broader enterprise software market.

• • Deliver multiple products through the full life cycle, capturing and translating SAAS metrics

• Technical Product Leadership

• • Establish best practices for product and engineering to work closely together in delivering enterprise SW products to clients.

• • Ability to quickly identify the technical challenges and complexities of developing products & features to build lasting products that scale

• Execution

• • Build and ship world-class products, deeply understanding how software gets developed and delivered inside of companies.

• • Drive plans through execution, implement strong product methodologies, build a sense of product ownership driven by agility and velocity across the product team that enables growth, innovation, and scale of the company.

• • Create the road-map, adaptively planning forward, and managing the implementation with engineering & design

• Team Leadership

• • Recruit, inspire, mentor and lead a diverse, world-class product team

• • Provide a clear progression for career growth of current & future team members

• • Connect the product team to customer needs and broader company goals

• • Draw a connection to the long-term product strategy and enable individual team members to understand how their contributions impact company success. 

Working at Code Climate

• Join a small team of around 40 full-time people who love what they do.
• Competitive salary and meaningful stock options.
• Flexible and generous paid time off including an open vacation policy and maternity/paternity leave.
• Health, dental and vision insurance. We cover 100% of employee and 50% of dependent EPO premiums, as well as a portion of PPO premiums for employees and dependents. Dental and vision premiums are covered at 100% for employees and 50% for dependents.
• Opportunities to continue your professional development, including attending conferences.
• The best technology to get your job done. 
• Dog-friendly office stocked with snacks, drinks and cold-brew iced coffee.

Code Climate is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with our mission of serving a diverse and global audience, we value a diverse workforce and inclusive culture which reflects that. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, and veteran status.