VP, Product

Role Overview

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Spark's platform. Communicate it clearly to the team, to customers, and to investors.
• Act as a player-coach, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on execution based on what the business needs at any given moment.
• Build and grow a high-performing Product and Design team. Define new roles and product domains in close partnership with Engineering leadership.
• Develop deep expertise in our market and customers by spending meaningful time with brokers, agency partners, and carrier partners.
• Ensure the product roadmap drives broker adoption, revenue growth, and operational efficiency across the business.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Account Management to build a clear, consistent narrative around our product and where we are investing.
• Collaborate with Customer Success to identify opportunities for operational efficiency and ensure coordinated, well-supported product launches.
• Work with Engineering leadership to maintain a fast, iterative development process that balances speed, quality, and scalability.
• Own the operating cadence for how Product serves as the connective tissue between business strategy and day-to-day execution.
• Set and reinforce the cultural values of the Product organization and ensure they are felt broadly across Spark.

Requirements

• Extensive product leadership experience at a Series A to C vertical or marketplace company where complexity was real: multi-sided dynamics, SMB or operator workflows, and a business where the product and internal operations were deeply intertwined.
• You get into the weeds when it matters and have the instincts to know when it does, forming sharp judgments quickly and with incomplete information.
• Sharp instincts for where AI creates genuine user value and where it doesn't. You know when to build and when to hold off.
• You think beyond AI-assisted productivity and toward redesigning how the team works: decision loops, review cycles, and ownership models built around AI capabilities rather than bolted on top of them.
• You use AI to compress the learning cycle, not just the build cycle. Faster hypothesis testing, tighter feedback loops, better decisions made earlier.
• You treat AI-specific risks: hallucination, data quality, model drift, user trust, as product tradeoffs you own, not engineering concerns you hand off.
• Proven track record of building high-performing product teams, including Product Managers and Product Designers, with a clear framework for setting goals and holding the bar.
• Experience operating in a high-growth, resource-constrained environment where ruthless prioritization was required.
• You know how to build trust with technical leaders, navigate tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scalability, and maintain a development culture that doesn't sacrifice one for the other.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence executives, investors, and customers.

Tech Stack

• Spark

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Health care, including dental and vision through our PEO Sequoia
• Flexible work location; co-working available
• 401k
• Paid Time Off
• Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
• Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
• 11 paid holidays
• 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
• Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi