At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. All salaries ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region.
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At Guild, we uphold our Core Values in everything we do. Our team emphasizes our Core Values in the following ways:
- Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
- Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company
As the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Product Management, you will spearhead the strategic direction and execution of Guild’s product portfolio, ensuring alignment with our mission to reshape education and upskilling in order to empower the world’s frontline workforce.
Reporting to the Chief Product and Technology Officer, you will lead a cross-functional product management, product design, and product operations team, to define and deliver innovation, operational excellence, and ultimately market leadership and human impact.
Why might you want to do this?
- You thrive on the sweaty palms that come with your decisions materially impacting our trajectory and outcomes - for Guild, and for the people whose lives we are committed to changing. You don’t just want to be a part of it - you want to actively shape it.
- You embrace the opportunity that comes with ambiguity, and you relish the challenge of discovering the best path forward, every day
- You love being challenged and pushed, and challenging and pushing others, in pursuit of the best outcomes
What you will critically be responsible and accountable for:
- Strategic Leadership
- Develop and continuously refine a comprehensive product vision and strategy, and drive execution against it
- Establish and operate against an aligned set of KPI’s and Leading Indicators measuring product and business performance
- Serve as a key member of the Product Leadership Team in the CPTO organization, as well as the broader Guild Extended Leadership team, engaging with cross functional executive leadership, the Board of Directors, and other key leadership forums.
- Team Development
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing product management, design, and operations team
- Create the product operating model that enables a high velocity of learning, efficient decision making, and high impact execution
- Develop senior leaders in the team to enable long term growth and scale
- Product Portfolio Management
- Lead our transition into a multi-product organization
- Customer and Market Expertise
- Ensure that you and your team become experts on our current and future potential market and customers
What you will unequivocally bring to the table:
- Product Leadership
- 15+ years of product management experience showing growth in leadership remit
- Meaningful experience of leadership spanning multiple product lines showing both product/business growth and development of a cohesive product story
- Demonstrated development of senior product leaders
- Data Fluency
- You dream in metrics and outcomes, and can articulate how you will lead an organization to operate that way
- Product Marketing and GTM Acumen
- A recognition that the success of any product is dependent on how you tell the story and take it to market.
- A deep understanding, likely borne out of hands on experience, of what that entails and looks like
- Business Acumen
- P&L fluency. You’ve likely GM’ed before, and if not, can demonstrate an understanding of how a P&L and a business operates, and an ability to drive product success in alignment with business needs and outcomes.
- Comfort with discomfort and ambiguity
- You’ve seen ups and downs, and you’ve lived and led through change and transformation.
- You know how to maintain equanimity while never letting up on the push for better and more.
- Domain Expertise
- Actually, we’re not concerned about this. If you’re great at what you do, you’ll pick this up. We’d prefer that you don’t already have established answers to everything.
What the strongest candidates will also have:
- Technical and Operational Competency
- The broader your experience, the better. You will need to hold your own with all functions across the organization, and direct skills go a long way.
- Experience as an IC and/or leader of Engineering and Operations is a huge positive.
- Ability to go broad and deep
- Your ability to context switch orthogonally will stand you in good stead. As we evolve in a multi product environment, you need to be able to seamlessly operate across them all. However, we are still small enough that you need to be able to go deep with a PM and Engineering team when appropriate, and need to be able to identify when that might be.
We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a base salary range of $226,600 - $332,300, as well as variable compensation and company stock options.
At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
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