VP, Product
Summary
We're hiring a VP, Product to own our product strategy and lead its execution. The ideal candidate is a proven product leader with experience in regulated industries who is energized by operating as a player-coach in a fast-moving environment.
What You'll Do
Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Spark's platform. Communicate it clearly to the team, to customers, and to investors.
Act as a player-coach, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on execution based on what the business needs at any given moment.
Build and grow a high-performing Product and Design team. Define new roles and product domains in close partnership with Engineering leadership.
Develop deep expertise in our market and customers by spending meaningful time with brokers, agency partners, and carrier partners.
Ensure the product roadmap drives broker adoption, revenue growth, and operational efficiency across the business.
Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Account Management to build a clear, consistent narrative around our product and where we are investing.
Collaborate with Customer Success to identify opportunities for operational efficiency and ensure coordinated, well-supported product launches.
Work with Engineering leadership to maintain a fast, iterative development process that balances speed, quality, and scalability.
Own the operating cadence for how Product serves as the connective tissue between business strategy and day-to-day execution.
Set and reinforce the cultural values of the Product organization and ensure they are felt broadly across Spark.
What We're Looking For
Deep understanding of the business, market, and user
Extensive product leadership experience at a Series A to C vertical or marketplace company where complexity was real: multi-sided dynamics, SMB or operator workflows, and a business where the product and internal operations were deeply intertwined.
Sharp instincts for where AI creates genuine user value and where it doesn't. You know when to build and when to hold off.
You use AI to compress the learning cycle, not just the build cycle. Faster hypothesis testing, tighter feedback loops, better decisions made earlier.
You treat AI-specific risks: hallucination, data quality, model drift, user trust, as product tradeoffs you own, not engineering concerns you hand off.
You can lead a smaller, high-leverage team across a surface area that previously required significantly more headcount.
Proven track record of building high-performing product teams, including Product Managers and Product Designers, with a clear framework for setting goals and holding the bar.
You operate in a high-growth, resource-constrained environment where ruthless prioritization was required.
You know how to build trust with technical leaders, navigate tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scalability, and maintain a development culture that doesn't sacrifice one for the other.
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence executives, investors, and customers.
Compensation
Base Salary: $260,000 - $300,000 USD
Why you should join our team
Opportunity to join a fast-moving, well-funded, and mission-driven startup where you will have a profound impact on the brokers and beneficiaries we serve.
Comprehensive benefits program including health care, dental and vision, flexible work location, 401k, paid time off, monthly remote work stipend, parental leave, and wellbeing perks.
E-Verify participation and commitment to compliance.
Commitment to hiring diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of our problems and the population we serve.