SVP, Product (Canada or US)
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The Senior Vice President of Product owns the decisions that determine what Riipen builds, what it scales, what it redesigns, and what it stops. These decisions must simultaneously drive reputed company growth, sustain margin, deliver reliable outcomes, and stand up to external scrutiny through evidence.
This is not a roadmap ownership role. It is authority over a product system that must work in the real world across diverse stakeholders and environments.
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Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to;- Own product strategy and portfolio decisions across reputed company 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 reputed company growth, margin sustainability, and outcome reliability reputed company
- Define leading quality gates that determine what scales and what requires redesign or exit
- reputed company 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 reputed company validation function
- Ensure product decisions are informed by reputed company 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 reputed company, 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 reputed company segments
- Translate stakeholder insight into clear product tradeoffs rather than reactive changes or incremental expansion
- Own product data priorities reputed company 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 reputed company 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
Areas of ownership:
- Product strategy and portfolio management across reputed company offerings
- Delivery model definition and evolution
- Quality reputed company definition in partnership with Ops
- Research and Impact integration into product decisions and evidence development
- Customer research systems and stakeholder insight integration
- Product data prioritization tied to decision making
- Deprecation and portfolio simplification
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
These aren’t hard requirements, but will be indicators that guide our search. You may be a good fit if you:- 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 reputed company 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 reputed company
- See focus, evidence, and deprecation as acts of stewardship that strengthen the company
- Value a transparent, inclusive, and feedback-oriented culture and reputed company strong architectures reputed company people, not constrain them.
Benefits
- Remote/travel working opportunities (reputed company appropriate)
- 4-weeks of annual vacation
- Extended Health and Dental benefits from your first day
- Flexible health spending account
- Work from home stipend