Head of Product

About Aaptiv

Aaptiv is a pioneer in the digital health space that helps its members live a healthier life by giving them access to the best workout experience anytime, anywhere. Through its use of humanized technology, Aaptiv removes the barriers many face when trying to make fitness a priority.
 
Launched in 2016, Aaptiv has garnered nearly a quarter million members and has raised over $55M from leading venture capital firms and top companies, including the Amazon Alexa Fund and Disney.
 
Want to join our team? We're looking for people who are passionate about continuing to improve the Aaptiv experience that our members around the world have come to love.

About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to play a major role in shaping the future of a product that will soon help millions of people to improve their quality of life and feel great about themselves. You’ll play an integral role in formulating product strategy and vision, lead the development of exciting new features, and help to improve the existing experience.

The Head of Product will own Aaptiv’s Product and UX organization and will be responsible for cultivating and executing the web, mobile, and subscription product strategy. Reporting to the CEO this executive will develop and optimize product development processes, ensure seamless transaction funnels, optimize customer experiences and maximize user conversion.

What You’ll Do

  • Working closely with CEO on translating vision into a robust product strategy and product roadmap. Understand the vision and execute against it.
  • Championing an experience across all contact points that is engaging, inspiring, and helpful to their members, as well as consistent and seamless, across the brand. Translating complex ideas into simple, user-friendly designs.
  • Leading coaching, and developing a team of product, design, and analytics professionals to create a product culture focused on delighting the consumer.
  • Establishing lean and focused process management practices, combining creativity with flawless execution.
  • Partner with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to solve strategic and operational challenges in consideration of market forces and competition.
  • Partner with engineering to create a highly effective, agile product development process.

Who You Are

Professional

  • Minimum of 8+ years of product management experience ideally at a mobile-first company with a subscription business model.
  • Experience operating and thriving in small, fast-paced, high-growth startup environments. Needs to be comfortable in a hands-on environment.
  • Track record building, motivating, and leading a mobile-centric product and design team of 15+ 
  • Proven development and leadership of high performance, customer-obsessed product and/or UX organization.
  • Ability to continually evolve the product roadmap and strategy to meet both short and long term goals such as scalability, user engagement, and monetization.
  • Experience and deep understanding in utilizing data, search, and UI to build complex ecosystems and communities.
  • Solid technical background. Experience leading product teams that partner cross-functionally.

Personal

  • Passion for innovative products and connected to the mission, and core values of Aaptiv.
  • Extremely entrepreneurial and comfortable with rolling up your sleeves.
  • Inspires a culture of innovation, execution, collaboration, and accountability.
  • Positive attitude. Humble, high energy.
  • Highly intellectual, analytical and metrics oriented, with high horsepower. 
  • Strategic: Has the ability to see the big picture and make intelligent decisions that benefit the company.
  • Inspirational leader: skilled at empowering teams and coaching them to success.
  • Integrity: honest, possessing strong moral principles. 
  • Collaborative: has the ability to see other perspectives and consider other points of view.

Not only will the work you do at Aaptiv be meaningful and rewarding, but you'll get to do it in a fun environment alongside a diverse group of friendly, talented people. In order to hire the best, we offer competitive salaries and equity, great benefits, and lots of perks, including catered breakfasts and lunches, unlimited vacation, and unbelievable views of New York City from our office at One World Trade Center.

It is the policy of Aaptiv to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Aaptiv will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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