Head of Product & Innovation

Job Description

Who we are At Nexleaf, we are a purpose-driven team that designs sensor technologies and data analytics solutions to address global public health challenges. Our core product is ColdTrace, a remote temperature monitoring (RTM) solution and data platform for vaccine storage that collects temperature data, sends alerts to health workers when vaccine fridges are not operating properly, and provides insights to government stakeholders to make systematic improvements to cold chain equipment performance. Coldtrace is currently deployed in 25 countries, and protects the vaccine supply for 1 in 10 babies born on earth every year. We are also exploring ways to leverage our technology to address global public challenges beyond vaccines, including to clean cooking and medical device innovation.

What we’re looking for

We are seeking our first Head of Product & Innovation. As a member of Nexleaf’s leadership team, you will build out a product management discipline and oversee our product portfolio, including our core product ColdTrace as well as new product incubation. You will manage and mentor a small team of product managers and determine additional resourcing needs, including research and UI/UX while developing, driving, and executing our product strategy. You and your team will partner with internal and external stakeholders to conceptualize and deliver user-centric products, features, and experiences that empower our customers to make data-driven decisions to improve public health outcomes in their countries.

What you’ll do

• Develop and lead a high-performing product management team, including providing ongoing mentorship and assessing resourcing needs

• Partner with product and leadership teams to prioritize and refine our product portfolio, including developing a focused roadmap and prioritization framework to inform decision-making

• Communicate product strategy and status to stakeholders across the organization

• Refine our product development process and work cross functionally to execute it, inviting continuous improvement throughout

• Partner with our Business and Advocacy teams to ensure customer data and feedback is leveraged to inform sales strategies and product solutions

• Ensure that engineers are set up for success with detailed requirements and guidance

Your qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, with 1+ years experience leading a product management team

• Experience with early stage organizations and building out product disciplines preferred

• Exceptional communication and analytical skills

• Experience with agile software development methodologies

Why we’ll hire you

• You are a natural leader and mentor, committed to developing team members, influencing others, and amplifying the talent around you

• You have a track record of inspiring a culture of decision making rooted in data and customer centricity

• You possess strong product skills, intuition, and customer empathy and are passionate about building great products that delight end users

• You are biased toward action, possess a track record as an exceptional communicator and collaborator, and have a knack for simplifying and disambiguating complex concepts

• You don’t hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on when that’s what the situation calls for

• You are excited about building and scaling a product management function at a purpose-driven organization

Benefits

• Amazing start-up culture that’s purpose-driven and highly collaborative

• Fast-paced, high performing team focused on learning and getting better every day

• Benefits including health, retirement and generous PTO (14 holidays, 3 weeks vacation, 1-2 week year-end office closure)

• Flexible work hours

• 80 hours of parental leave

• Pet inclusive sick leave

• 401k employer matching