Director, Product Management (Hybrid)

Director, Product Management (Hybrid - 3 to 4 days onsite per week)

Overview:

As a Director of Product Management at Weedmaps, you will have an important role with responsibility for leading several product lines, execution and cross functional alignment for successful delivery of your team’s product roadmap and revenue goals. You will lead a team of product professionals responsible for key areas of our marketplace offerings.  You'll partner with other leaders to translate product vision into strategic and technological business decisions. You'll drive accountability and metrics ownership to translate strategy into results.

As a product leader, you will lead efforts to make it easier for our shoppers to learn about cannabis,  to engage with brands, find dispensaries and delivery services, and order products online. Your team will create new solutions and part of your role is to help your team innovate to create amazing products that deliver an amazing consumer experience, and business results for Weedmaps and our customers. 

A bit about you: you are passionate about the Cannabis economy, marketplaces as well as advertising products, with a deep understanding of the mobile commerce landscape, from user acquisition through discovery and order flows. Ideally you have experience in multi-sided marketplaces. You’re an expert at discovering user needs and pain points, and working with cross-functional partners to simplify complex problems and ship elegant solutions. You have proven experience in strategic thinking and methodical execution when launching products at scale. You are experienced in building best-in-class solutions for high-traffic online products.  You have started businesses or product lines as well as grown them.

You are also an experienced people manager who is focused on mentoring product managers, understands how to manage teams and is capable of managing matrixed organizations. You are strategic, creative, data-driven and able to focus on quick wins as well as long term projects/deliverables and developing and refining KPIs.  

You should be the type of product leader who enjoys working with other groups such as analytics, design, marketing and sales. You are passionate about building a great partnership with your sales, marketing and other go-to-market partners.

You'll also partner with other leaders across the company to translate product capabilities into strategic business results. You'll align and inspire your organization by effectively communicating the strategy and driving the team to build a world class marketplace in the cannabis space.  

And you’ll have fun while doing it with world-class colleagues and teammates.

The impact you'll make:

• Command a product department to innovate, drive revenue, and  maximize user retention across our entire product portfolio.
• Partner with leaders across the company to maintain a holistic product roadmap on an ongoing basis
• Have a deep and holistic understanding of how products are developed inclusive of all stakeholders (data, marketing, etc)
• Study cannabis industry trends, competition, stakeholder feedback, and analytics to make well informed product decisions
• Must maintain a deep understanding of our customers and their needs
• Must maintain a deep understanding of the competitive landscape across our entire product portfolio
• Identify new growth business opportunities through quantitative research, UI/UX studies, and reviews of industry standard methodologies
• Ensure that all initiatives have thorough rational documented and communicated by all product owners.
• Work closely with the Sales and Marketing teams to define business cases, requirements and user journey maps for new and existing customer needs and revenue opportunities
• Partner with Engineering leadership to achieve alignment and max efficiency across product and engineering teams
• Influence quality and productivity improvements through involvement in the development of new and improved procedures, process innovations, training, and changes in corporate culture

As a leader you will:

• Recruit, hire, grow, and retain top performing talent
• Leverage KPIs for measuring team performance and deliver performance reviews for your team members
• Drive and champion a culture of continuous learning to improve execution and remove roadblocks
• Ensure all team members are highly proficient in all of our tooling (self service analytics, feature rollout and experimentation, project management, and acceptance testing)

What you've accomplished:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of revenue-generating product leadership experience, with a focus on marketplaces and strong user communities, with 4+ years of managing and developing leaders
• Experience with at least two of the three following: subscription, e-commerce and advertising business models
• Experience working with engineering teams, business stakeholders managing expectations and building cross functional alignment
• Experience with standard forms of product development styles (agile, waterfall)
• Proven experience building, growing, inspiring and retaining a collaborative and results-focused team
• Ability to develop KPIs for measuring team performance and deliver performance reviews for your team member
• Track record of success balancing e-commerce with community building.
• Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction based on customer needs and revenue targets
• Natural curiosity and growth mindset, with an obsession for the details
• Proven experience delivering results
• Effective and persuasive written and verbal communication skills

The base pay range for this position is $199,000 - $229,000 per year

2024 Benefits for Full-Time, Regular Employees:

• Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision:
• Employee - employer paid premium 100%
• Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
• For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
• Mental Health benefits:
• Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
• Employee Training
• Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
• Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Family planning/fertility
• Identity theft protection
• Legal access to a network of attorneys
• Paid parental leave

Why Work at Weedmaps?

• You get to work at the leading technology company in the cannabis industry
• You get to play a meaningful role in helping to advance cannabis causes, including helping improve the lives of patients who rely on the benefits of cannabis
• You get an opportunity to shape the future of the cannabis industry
• You get to work on challenging issues in a collaborative environment that encourages you to do your best 
• You get to work in a casual and fun environment; no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• Numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow your professional skills
• Endless opportunities to network and connect with other Weedmappers through speaker series, Employee Resource Groups, happy hours, team celebrations, game nights, and much more!

Weedmaps is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion and religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.

Applicants  are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state/local laws, unless the accommodation presents undue hardship. Please email us at peopleoperations at weedmaps.com if you would like to confidentially discuss a potential accommodation during the interview process.

About Weedmaps:

WM Technology, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: MAPS) mission is to power a transparent and inclusive global cannabis economy. Now in its second decade, WM Technology has been a driving force behind much of the legislative change we’ve seen in the past 10 years.

Founded in 2008, WM Technology, is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry, comprising a B2C platform, Weedmaps, and B2B software, WM Business. The cloud-based SaaS solutions from WM Business provide an end-to-end operating system for cannabis retailers. WM Business’ tools support compliance with the complex, disparate, and constantly evolving regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. Through its website and mobile apps, WM Technology provides consumers with the latest information about cannabis retailers, brands, and products, facilitating product discovery and driving engagement with our retail and brand customers.

WM Technology holds a strong belief in the power of cannabis and the importance of enabling safe, legal access to consumers worldwide. Since inception, WM Technology has worked tirelessly, not only to become the most comprehensive platform for consumers, but to build the software solutions that power businesses compliantly in the space, to advocate for legalization, social equity, and licensing in many jurisdictions, and to facilitate further learning through partnering with subject matter experts on providing detailed, accurate information about the plant.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, WM Technology supports remote work for all eligible employees. Visit us at www.weedmaps.com.

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