We are a well-funded financial technology startup, with a unique team and unique skills, based in San Francisco. We are building a disruptive new investment marketplace, and we need an excellent startup-experienced Vice President of Product Management. As startup VP of Product, you will own the vision, definition, and delivery of our product platform, in close collaboration with the CEO and CTO. You will be responsible for building, managing, and championing a team of world-class product leaders. On any given day you will be ingesting feedback from customers and strategic partners, pitching current/future investors, driving competitive and market analysis, negotiating tactical and strategic feature concepts with internal leaders, mentoring your product team on agile product execution, and defining actual, tactical product requirements when needed. You will own the product roadmap, with a vision to what we intend to build in the next 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. You will also know, down to detail level, exactly what we are building in the coming few weeks, and why. You love product management and you love being agile. You understand that to succeed, you must 'fail early and often', and pivot quickly in response to our successes and failures. You always think of product in terms of user and business benefit, and constantly challenge everyone else at the company to do the same. You live and breathe sprints, stories, and radical prioritization. You fight for and own the correct prioritization of features among a chorus of stakeholders, using a combination of objective data, user needs, market trends, and a deep product intuition. When presented with a feature concept, you can quickly understand how it will impact the rest of our platform, and communicate this impact to others. You know how to break large feature efforts into tiny, measurable, deliverables. Through a combination of vision, product strategy, and tactical execution, you will enable a cross-functional team of PMs, designers, engineers, data experts, and other specialists to collaboratively build a groundbreaking new financial services platform. WHAT YOU WILL DO: Manage all product initiatives through the entire lifecycle from ideation and inception through development, testing, launch, measurement, and ongoing iteration Drive feature definition with your product team, incorporating feedback and concepts from multiple sources (both internal and external) Collaborate with the CEO, CTO, and exec team to define the product vision that will fulfill user and client needs, staying one step ahead of the market Own the agile product backlog, full of well-written, collaboratively-researched user stories Manage an organic, living product roadmap as a complement to the agile backlog, giving the team a vision into where we are headed, and why Work with a truly diverse team -- our team includes psychologists, data scientists, engineers, financial professionals, and people spanning consumer, enterprise, and Wall Street industries Communicate effectively with a distributed workforce across email, text, IM, shared documents, video conferencing, and in person Recruit, manage, and mentor a world-class product team, including product managers and designers Serve as product evangelist, involved in marketing and selling our product features and product vision to customers, investors, and partners Provide inspirational leadership, motivation, and hands-on direction to all product and engineering staff Cultivate a collaborative, transparent culture where cross-functional teamwork is the norm Set a high bar for product management excellence, enforcing a culture of product development that is agile, user-focused, and based on rapid execution of small, measurable successes