Santa Monica, CA

home decor and lifestyle goods featuring designs by independent artists. With artwork from over 400,000 creators and the knowledge that every purchase pays an artist, Society6 allows you to empower creativity around the world and in your everyday life.

Leaf Group is a house of brands, creating and cultivating digital-first companies in growing lifestyle categories: Fitness & Wellness (Well+Good, Livestrong.com); Home & Decor (Hunker, Society6, Deny Designs), and Art & Design (Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair). Additionally, we have performance focused brands in key categories such as Travel, Pets, and DIY (OnlyInYourState, Cuteness, eHow). Our media and marketplace brands are authentic and authoritative, reaching a large and growing passionate audience.

We work in a fun, collaborative environment that is diverse, adventurous, and open-minded. We look for proactive, accountable people focused on continuous learning and growth to push themselves and our businesses forward. Check us out .

As the VP of Product Management, you will be responsible for developing and delivering the product roadmap and execution for Society6's marketplace and e-commerce platforms. You will have direct responsibility for the oversight and thought leadership of the product management team Society6's D2C and B2B organizations. In addition, you will collaborate across the organization with executives, senior leadership, and critical business stakeholders to be responsible for the evolution and optimization of Society6's customer and artist experience.

The key areas of focus for this role will be evolving our marketplace experience through acquisition, retention, and growth both for our customers and our artist community. This will involve managing complex products from browse, search, merchandising, registration, cart, checkout, artist seller tools, order management, and customer service tools in order to delight our customers and artists.

You'll Report To: EVP Product, Technology & Operations

Typical responsibilities for a VP of Product include:

• Lead all aspects of the eCommerce Platform, including product vision, strategic roadmap prioritization, metrics and operations.
• Lead the process of evaluating capabilities and drive product innovation across all aspects of the commerce touchpoints including A/B testing and compelling use experiences that drive conversion as well as back office order management and artist related tools.
• Manage a team of product managers to create the strategy and roadmap
• Measure and communicate progress to stakeholders during development, and perform user acceptance testing before release
• Lead initiatives to improve the Customer Experience, such as site speed and performance as well as optimization of core flows
• Collaborating with business partners to develop product roadmap initiatives that span Marketing, Merchandising, Pricing & Promotions, Shipping & Fulfillment, Customer Service and Data Analytics
• Coach and mentor the product management team in goal-setting, effectively writing specs and user stories, prioritizing requirements, analyzing product data, and developing product strategies
• Stay abreast of competition and innovation within the space and use the knowledge to inform requirements and new product features
• Foster a spirit of team unity across product management, design, engineering, and QA and with team members across multiple geographies

You'll be successful if:

• You are a motivated, dynamic and strategic result oriented product leader who is passionate about delivering high quality eCommerce and marketplace experiences
• You are a partner with the business, marketing and technology executive team to create compelling product strategies, build product roadmaps, and deliver high-quality experiences that delight our customers and artists which drive business growth.
• You can see the future, by looking at industry trends, making key investment recommendations, and looking for businesses to partner with to enable our product strategy.
• Having an insatiable curiosity, and engaging with industry and outside industry peers, and drawing on all of that information for insights and predictive decision making.
• You are not afraid to wear multiple hats - with no job being too big or too small - in order to deliver results for our customers or artists.

What you have:

• 10 - 12 years experience with strong technical or product expertise including the ability to manage multiple Product teams, preferably in e-commerce or marketplace business.
• 7 -10 years experience leading high-performance team(s) in fast-paced organizations and environments including remote teams.
• Direct experience with large scale e-commerce platforms and technologies (including catalog, cart/checkout, payments, identity, shipping, search), A/B testing, web and native mobile application environments, and data analytics
• Strong proven ability to collaborate with senior executives across the organization including technology, marketing, sales, operations, and finance
• Proven experience launching new products that are complex and involve the use of algorithms to deliver a great customer experience
• Familiarity and comfort with data, including the ability to use data to analyze and monitor product health
• Demonstrated experience working with the technology teams from UX, through to data science and frontend teams
• Superior communication skills, including the ability to crystallize and broadly socialize insights into stakeholder needs that the stakeholders themselves may not be able to articulate
• Ability to weigh competing priorities, manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with stakeholders, driving to consensus while maintaining a clear focus on overarching business priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• A desire to participate in creating the workplace you want to be a part of.
• We're casual and informal but we work hard and work responsibly. Personal accountability goes a long way. We believe we are the change.

What We Have:

Among Comparably's 2021 Best Companies for Company Culture, Company Perks & Benefits, Company Compensation, Best CEO for Diversity, and Best CEO for Women

eHow is the 2019 & 2020 People's Choice and official Webby Winner for Social Video/How To-DIY

OnlyInYourState is ranked the #3 Travel and Information Site (ComScore)

Well+Good is the 2019 People's Choice winner of the Webby's Award for Best Lifestyle Brand

Leaf Group is among TalentDesk's 2019 Best Companies To Work For

Leaf Group is among the 2019 Built In LA Best Companies To Work For

Well+Good is the 2018 winner of Fast Company's Most Innovative Company AwardMyPlate is the 2018 winner of the Webby Award for Best Design

Winner of the 2017 Best Company for Diversity award Comparably

Competitive compensation and benefits packages (i.e., Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, 401K)

Gender neutral family leave

Paid-to-play vacation rewards

Discretionary unlimited vacation time

Employee discounts for Saatchi Art, Society6, and Deny Designs

Leaf Group is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace that reflects our customers and the world we live in. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply for our roles. Leaf Group is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Agency Disclosure: If the Leaf Group Talent Acquisition department, or any current company employee, receives an unsolicited resume from a third party recruiting agency and Leaf Group does not have a signed Agency Agreement active, Leaf Group will not be deemed liable to pay a placement fee. The unsolicited resume will be considered a gift and can be considered for our recruitment efforts.