VP, Product

About the role

The VP, Product will lead the Product team for all of Rent the Runway. They will define the future of the Subscription, One-Time Rental, and Resale businesses, leading the teams to create delightful, personalized, friction-free experiences that feel like they’re built for each customer. They will manage and grow a team of product managers to deliver products and features that reflect our obsession with the big customer questions of our business: how do we help her get dressed, how do we make her feel great, how do we style her, and how do we speak to the different experiences she’s getting dressed for.

This role requires both strategic leadership and hands-on execution to deliver meaningful customer and business impact. The VP, Product will work closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and other stakeholders across the major surfaces of the experience, improving the technical foundation as they improve the user experience. They will influence across and up, setting the vision for long-term investment in the products their team owns.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of product managers setting and delivering on highly visible and company critical goals
• Build cross-functional teams tasked with continuous product discovery and delivery
• Cultivate a deep knowledge of the RTR customer, their pain points, and what makes them love their experience with RTR to create seamless and engaging user experiences
• Prioritize rigorously across a number of business and technical investment areas
• Build the systems, tools and processes that will enable your teams to succeed in the short- and long-terms
• Define the right success metrics and set clear targets to constantly strive for improvement
• Drive execution and ensure the team delivers the desired business outcomes efficiently
• Build the cross-functional relationships with other orgs within RTR that will ensure your team is building alongside our other subject matter experts
• Communicate plan and progress to key internal partners and executives. Actively listen and respond to feedback
• Maintain a solid pulse on market trends and conduct ongoing evaluations of relevant 3rd party offerings, to ensure our systems and processes are best-in-class.
• Contribute to creating a learning culture and a fun, rewarding workplace where people can realize their full potential

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, including leading teams and product organizations
• Strong technical background coupled with good business sense
• Knowledge of the latest AI technology to build the next generation of the RTR experience
• Confident and influential communicator
• Relationship builder who engages well with stakeholders
• Create vision and clarity from complexity and ambiguity
• Constantly learning, running experiments to validate assumptions and mitigate risks
• Broadly familiar with AI-driven product experiences (search, recommendations, personalization, fit solutions)
• Thrives in change, entrepreneurial in spirit with a passion for disruption
• High level strategic thinker and a roll-up-your-sleeves operator who does what it takes to get things done and deliver results
• Analytical, turning data into actionable insights
• Technical, comfortable working with engineers day-to-day and able to participate in technical discussions
• Basic knowledge of data structures, experiment design, and using self-service analytics tools (like Google Analytics or Looker) to make decisions
• Experience working in scrum/agile management methodologies

Qualifications

• Experience in platform thinking, creating strong partnerships, and balancing pragmatism with forward-thinking leadership
• Deep familiarity with AI-driven product experiences (search, recommendations, personalization, fit solutions)
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for disruption
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Experience working in a fast-paced, innovative environment

Skills

• Product Management
• Leadership
• Strategic Thinking
• Agile Methodologies
• AI Technology
• Customer Obsession
• Data Analysis
• Technical Expertise

Benefits

• Paid Time Off including vacation, paid bereavement, and family sick leave
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service
• Exclusive employee subscription and rental discounts
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, FSA and dependent care from day 1 of employment
• 401k match
• Company wide events and outings
• Office-Centric Work - corporate employees have the option to work remotely 1 day a week, in accordance with Company policies

Pay

The anticipated base salary for this position is $275,000 to $350,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held.

Schedule

Rent the Runway operates on a Hybrid model, with employees working from our Dumbo office 4-days a week, and flexibly on Fridays.