Head of Product

Required

• 10+ years of B2B technology sales experience, including 5+ years leading scaled Product organizations.
• A true builder who is comfortable starting with ambiguity, incomplete information, and an immature organizational structure.
• Highly technical product executive. Must understand complex technical systems well to challenge assumptions, ask incisive questions, and partner with Code Metal's engineering organization.
• Hands-on and comfortable operating without a large Product organization. This person should expect to personally conduct customer discovery, write product strategy, pressure-test requirements, support strategic deals, and drive prioritization.
• Has strong product taste and can distinguish between a customer request, a repeatable product need, and a strategically important platform investment.
• Commercially minded. Understands that great product leadership at Code Metal includes helping the company sell, package, and communicate its technology, not simply managing an engineering roadmap.
• Comfortable making hard prioritization decisions and saying no when customer requests or internal initiatives do not support the broader product strategy.
• Low ego and highly collaborative across Engineering, Growth, Sales, Solutions, and forward-deployed teams.
• Has personally taken a deeply technical product from ground zero to market, rather than primarily inheriting mature products, established roadmaps, or functioning product organizations.
• Has partnered closely with Sales to commercialize a product, including participating directly in customer conversations and learning what made the product sell, or fail to sell.
• Has strong experience working with deeply technical engineering organizations and can earn credibility with engineers, architects, and technical founders.
• Has translated emerging technical capabilities into products that can be repeatedly sold and deployed rather than remaining bespoke solutions.