Product Director

Time zone

(GMT+3) Helsinki, Finland.

Responsibilities include but not limited to

• Create the product vision and communicate the strategy to all teams involved in its implementation: engineering, sales, marketing, and support. Make sure it’s clear to all the stakeholders, they’re aligned, and they support it.
• Understand and align with the company strategy and work with product managers to help them create their own backlogs.
• Manage and grow the team of product managers, UI/UX designers, and project managers: discuss and establish their KPIs together with them, facilitate their work processes where necessary, oversee their development. Help them hire top people from the market and grow them to become even better.
• Create the product roadmap & release timeline.
• Collaborate with the Engineering team: CTO, project manager, team leaders and team members who are responsible for data parsing and storage.
• Participate in cross-team activities: Sales/Success/Support/Marketing.
• Do market research, monitor our competitors, and proactively react to changes.
• Customer Development: understand customer needs and buying behaviors, conduct interviews with key clients.
• Take on an externally facing role and become an influencer in the industry and evangelist for AppFollow, who participates in conferences, writes articles, etc.

Job requirements

• 3+ years of experience as Head of Product / CPO in SaaS, B2B, or Mobile apps.
• 5+ years of experience as Product Manager ideally in high growth, scale-up environment.
• Launched and developed successful products (up to the point when they started to bring money).
• Experience of building a product with $5M to $30M ARR.
• A team player and led product teams of 30+ people in total, 5-10 product teams. You manage strategy, roadmaps, monetization.
• Good with people management: you set OKR/KPIs for product teams and create PDP plans for team leaders.
• Experience with CustDev, conduct interviews with key clients.
• Understand how UX works, can prototype it, and know UI/UX best practices.
• Commercially astute: you know how to increase ACV (Annual Contract Value), boost CR from free/trial to premium, can define what part of the product sells, have an understanding of conversions.
• Good with analytics: building reports, finding bottlenecks, and calculating unit economics.
• Comfortable with public speaking and an experienced user of Google Sheets, Keynote, etc.
• Excellent English.

It would be a plus if you are an active user of Amplitude, Mixpanel, App Store Connect, Google Play Console, App Annie, Appfigures & AppFollow, etc.

Benefits they offer

The biggest benefit is their awesome AppFollow team. They're an open, friendly, talented team that enjoys creating a great product, working together, growing together, and supporting each other

As a Product Director you will:

• Be a part of their international Leadership team (the US, Europe, CIS).
• Help them to grow from $5M to $100M ARR.
• Get access to their network of investors, advisers, and mentors.
• Participate in international Product and Saas conferences and events as the face of our company.

These benefits are also worthy! They offer:

• Full-time remote job. Though you’re always welcome to spend time with them in their office in Helsinki.
• Paid Vacation. Take the time you need to stay motivated, charged, and balanced. By prior agreement, you can have days off for special occasions.
• Paid Corporate Meetups. They get together with the whole company twice a year at various locations (St.Petersburg, Moscow, Helsinki, Riga, etc.) to work and spend time together offline. Also, they have offline team meetings at least twice a year. They bear all the travel costs for your accommodation, flights, lodging, and other business travel expenses.
• They are also passionate about professional development and always invest in education for their team members. You’ll have executive-level visibility into how the company is run and performing. They are always ready to provide dedicated support and fast-track your onboarding, including giving you the tools you need to be successful.