Own product strategy and portfolio decisions across all lines of business and delivery models
Ensure Riipen’s product portfolio aligns with the operating system and scales without exception debt
Define and evolve delivery models and experience design that produce meaningful and measurable outcomes for learners employers and partners
Ensure every product line meets or is on a path to meeting revenue growth, margin sustainability, and outcome reliability thresholds
Define leading quality gates that determine what scales and what requires redesign or exit
Make explicit deprecation decisions including stopping offerings without replacement readiness
Ensure deprecation is executed cleanly with clear communication and organizational alignment
Integrate Research and Impact as a core input into product decision making, not a downstream validation function
Ensure product decisions are informed by credible evidence and can be supported externally with partners, governments, and institutions
Partner with Research and Impact to define what outcomes must be demonstrated, how they are measured, and how that evidence informs product evolution
Ensure the voice of learners, employers, academic institutions, educators, workforce partners, and government stakeholders is consistently reflected in product decisions
Build and enforce structured customer research practices including interviews, feedback loops, and insight systems across all segments
Translate stakeholder insight into clear product tradeoffs rather than reactive changes or incremental expansion
Own product data priorities aligned to concrete decisions such as what to scale redesign or exit
Partner with Ops to ensure quality standards are enforceable operationalized and consistently applied
Partner with Revenue and Employer to ensure commercial narratives and employer readiness reflect actual product capability
Define the boundaries of what can and cannot be sold or delivered based on product reality
Provide clear product tradeoffs and portfolio rationale to the executive team and board
Ensure teams understand where to invest energy and where to let go
Continuously reduce complexity across the product portfolio to improve focus speed and outcomes
Requirements
Have owned portfolio level decisions where stopping work was as important as starting it
Have a track record of building products that deliver both strong economic outcomes and meaningful real world impact
Can integrate research, data, and stakeholder insight into clear product decisions rather than treating them as separate functions
Have built or led systems for continuous customer research across multiple stakeholder groups
Can define quality in ways that are observable enforceable and scalable
Use data and evidence to decide what to scale redesign or exit rather than justify existing plans
Are comfortable making irreversible decisions with incomplete information
Can align executive stakeholders around hard tradeoffs without creating drift
See focus, evidence, and deprecation as acts of stewardship that strengthen the company
Value a transparent, inclusive, and feedback-oriented culture and believe strong architectures empower people, not constrain them.
Benefits
Remote/travel working opportunities (when appropriate)
4-weeks of annual vacation
Extended Health and Dental benefits from your first day