Head of Product, Last Mile
About Veho
Veho is the post-purchase experience company that unlocks the potential of everyday consumers and brands to fully participate in e-commerce. Building an entirely new end-to-end logistics infrastructure, powered by the latest technology and designed for the modern era of shopping, Veho is reinventing shipping, and all parts of the post-purchase experience as we know it. By removing the pain from delivery and returns, Veho is creating powerful opportunities for brands to engage and build deep loyalty with their customers like never before.
About the role
As our Head of Product for Last Mile + Marketplace, you will define the overarching product strategy and roadmaps consistent with Veho’s overall strategic objective and growth plans for the crowdsourced marketplace part of our business. You will play a key role in making technology a competitive edge and source of differentiation for Veho. You will build processes and frameworks that collect, organize, prioritize, and build roadmaps around both unit economic improvements and operational efficiencies, as well as new products and operating models that drive the Veho growth flywheel.
You will direct the tech investments to manage and optimize the crowdsourced driver part of Veho’s business, which manages a 9-figure annual budget to pay driver partners to deliver packages for our clients. You will do strategy, resource allocation, and prioritization for a 50-person team to begin with, including partnering with or managing a cross-functional team of product, design, engineering, data science, analytics, and operations team members. This team manages the driver delivery experience, driver-route marketplace, and driver support. This team also drives strategy and analytics for determining Veho’s coverage area, and works closely with our ground operations and transportation teams on network topology.
As an executive team member, you will help shape and deploy the company strategy and priorities. You will also lead, develop, retain, and grow your team.
Responsibilities Include:
- Defining the overarching product strategy, and ongoing roadmap(s) for the Last Mile space consistent with Veho’s overall strategic objective and growth plans.
- Building and coaching a high-performing team who is motivated to do better and think bigger as a result of your leadership.
- Thinking and operating at a strategic level, but driving execution on a tactical level with the desire to be hands on.
- Ruthlessly bringing focus to the most impactful features and products, aligned with the company financial, growth, stability, and experience goals.
- Building and maintaining core systems, while driving multiple teams to innovate on those same systems.
- Partnering with founders and executives across Engineering, Operations, Revenue, etc to develop a Last Mile roadmap consistent with Veho’s overall strategic objectives and growth plans.
- Build from scratch a calendar, set of templates, decision-making frameworks, reporting decks, etc. to effectively manage your product org, execute on what is highest priority, and manage up to the executive team.
What you bring:
- Demonstrated experience in leading and driving product strategy and execution in a complex, multi sided marketplace with hundreds of thousands of users (or more) or businesses with a complex physical and digital operation.
- Experience owning a budget and outcomes for a cross functional team that includes product, engineering and operations.
- Strong technical background and understanding of software development, architecture, and systems engineering.
- Data-driven mindset and highly analytical with the desire and ability to dig into metrics to derive insights and drive decisions.
- Can run up and down the stack from high level strategy all the way to the details of architecture and metrics.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills. You can tell a story with data and influence others at all levels of the company, including the executive team.
- Deep expertise in the complex unit economics of a marketplace business, ideally with a gig economy component.
Veho is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Veho offers a generous ownership package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Veho employee shares one galvanizing mission: to revolutionize the world of package delivery by creating exceptional experiences for customers and drivers. We are deeply value-driven (Team Up, Drive Impact, Take Ownership, Solve Bigger, Obsess Over Experience, Make Today Count) and care tremendously about investing in people. We are committed to creating a diverse team and an environment that provides everyone with the opportunity to do the work of their lifetime. Veho is unable to provide sponsorship at this time.
Veho is committed to nurturing, cultivating and preserving a diverse and inclusive work environment. Empathy and respect for each other is core to our values and a central part of working here every day. The diversity of our employees, drivers and applicants is welcomed and encouraged.