CPO (Chief Product Officer) Position Available In Fulton, Georgia

CPO (Chief Product Officer)

ABOUT ITRADENETWORK

At iTradeNetwork, we provide advanced supply chain software and insights tailored to the food & beverage industry. Our mission is clear and ambitious: To feed the world. From the start, we’ve been dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges within food and beverage supply chains, delivering innovative solutions and expert support that make a measurable impact.
Our cutting-edge technology helps businesses streamline complex procurement and fulfillment processes, minimize food waste, optimize inventory, manage compliance risk, and scale profitably. We’re proud to serve an elite customer base, including 13 of the top 25 North American grocers, 8 of the top 10 foodservice distributors, and 8 of the top 10 global food and beverage manufacturers.
Scope and Responsibilities
This individual will provide leadership around organizational structure and continue to enhance and lead a high performing team for a growing SaaS company. This leader will drive the future state product vision, product strategy, roadmap, and execution for the organization. The CPO will also be instrumental in creating a high-velocity product innovation organization in partnership with the CTO and GTM teams to elevate the organization’s new product development capabilities. The CPO will be able to understand the needs of a complex set of small, medium and enterprise customers, and ensure that the customer base sees significant value from a broad range of products. This individual will own all product management, product strategy, data science and UI/UX for the organization. The CPO will be responsible for delivering products by leveraging insights gained through industry and competitive research, spending time with customers, understanding their workflows and what the critical business drivers are for their customers. The CPO will build a high-performing and collaborative team. This leader will manage a diverse suite of products but also be able to lead new product development efforts and define the business case for new opportunities of growth. The CPO should not be afraid to ask difficult questions and should have experience in making difficult resource allocation decisions, including knowing when to sunset or double down on a product.
The ideal candidate has experience in leading an end-to-end product organization of product managers, UX/UI, and data science talent. The CPO will initially lead a team of around 20 with the ability to inject talent into the product organization. The CPO will work closely with the CTO to improve and implement the product development function.
The leader must have the strategic ability and advisory skills to work with the Chief Executive Officer and cross-functional leadership in Engineering, Operations, Marketing and Sales, and Customer Success leading the product roadmap and new product development, while balancing the need to retire tech debt and build a platform strategy. This leader must be able to navigate an established business in growth transformation. The CPO must be strong not only from a product perspective but have strong business and P&L acumen and cultivate a group of Product Managers with strong business acumen.
Specific Responsibilities Transform the Product Management, Data Science, and UI/UX organization into an innovative, high velocity team that can deliver the next generation of products to the market. drive new product definition, and proof of concept in a high velocity manner.
Experience with pricing products and analyzing current product pricing. Ability to implement a risk-based product pricing structure
Develop and implement a process to gather inputs on new product ideas, prioritize ideas for a POC, and build a POC within 90 days
Provide insights and leadership to developing the framework of product management such as customer definition, differentiators and advantages. Customers’ diagnosis and problems, clear identification of user needs and use cases. sequencing based on priorities of user needs.
Develop an organization that provides strategy, direction, and has ownership of complete product suite from inception to product launch to product marketing to end of life
Create a product organization that is collaborative and cohesive across Engineering, Dev Ops, Marketing, Sales and Finance. Cultivate a product organization intimately aligned with customers and market need.
Define clear measurements of success combined with processes to enable execution
Develop a culture of customer intimacy and a team that is proactive in learning customers nuances and market trends
Develop product roadmaps, features, requirements, and the business case for development and launch of next generation product offerings for both existing and new products
Lead the organization through on-going product development cycles, from initial definition to final production, with products and services delivered on schedule, on budget with high quality
Provide overall leadership to the product team, setting clear goals, metrics, and operating model for the organization
Key Year One Objectives
Drive high velocity product development
Drive consistency across the product platforms including intake, process, prioritization, as well as UX and UI
Better align the product organization to customers, providing market-based and customer insights mapping of product strategy
Define and create go to market strategies across core product lines that is collaborative and well understood and embraced by all leaders of the organization
Evaluate and assess product operations and product commercialization methodologies for the organization and make any needed enhancements and adjustments
Improve processes, metrics, release, and Agile methodologies. Define scalable and repeatable processes for how products are innovated, developed, delivered to the market
Upgrade and formalize product management organization and bring more defined structure and KPI’s to the function
Further define Customer Advisory Board
Key Selection Criteria
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. MBA is preferred.
Experience in working with offshore teams
Proven experience in launching new products and leading innovation efforts for a company. Experience with AI is highly preferred.
Experience providing product management leadership in a B2B SaaS company across a suite of complex products and workflow solutions
Experience working in an Agile environment
Experience bringing products and platforms together through common UX/IU would be beneficial
Proven experience developing a product roadmap that has successfully driven scale and revenue growth for an organization
Experience in developing new product planning methodologies that have created measurable impact for an organization
Experience working with an executive leadership team in developing overall company strategy
Developing and delivering on product goals to enable an organization to scale and grow
Listen to Customers and be active and visible within their market
Experience in defining, attracting, developing, motivating and building a high performing product management organization
10+ years Leadership/Management experience
5+ years’ work experience in similar role owning all product management, data science, and UI/UX
M&A experience and integration of products is beneficial

WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING HERE

Competitive salary packages
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits for you and your family
Flex PTO for exempt employees and competitive PTO for non-exempt
Paid parental leave for eligible employees
401(k) matching
Tuition reimbursement on approved programs
Great health & well-being benefits including Teladoc for general medical and mental health care
These benefits are only applicable to full-time employees
This is a hybrid position, candidates must be located in the Bay Area, CA; Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; and Atlanta, GA unless listed otherwise

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Must be able to demonstrate lawful ability to work in the United States
iTradeNetwork, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran by applicable federal, state and local laws. We especially invite women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability