Vice President of Product Management

Posted Sep 17

Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers. We are the first global mental health solution to offer employees access to one-on-one, group, and self-serve digital resources for their emotional, professional, social, financial, and physical well-being needs—all within a single platform. Whether someone wants to proactively manage stress or treat depression, Modern Health guides people to the right care at the right time. We empower companies to help all their employees be the best version of themselves, and believe in meeting people wherever they are in their mental health journey.

We are a female-founded company backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, John Doerr, Y Combinator, and Battery Ventures. We partner with 500+ global companies like Lyft, Electronic Arts, Pixar, Clif Bar, Okta, and Udemy that are taking a proactive approach to mental health care for their employees. Modern Health has raised more than $170 million in less than two years with a valuation of $1.17 billion, making Modern Health the fastest entirely female-founded company in the U.S. to reach unicorn status. 

We tripled our headcount in 2021 and as a hyper-growth company with a fully remote workforce, we prioritize our people-first culture (winning awards including Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area 2021). To protect our culture and help our team stay connected, we require overlapping hours for everyone. While many roles may function from anywhere in the world—see individual job listing for more—team members who live outside the Pacific time zone must be comfortable working early in the morning or late at night; all full-time employees must work at least six hours between 8 am and 5 pm Pacific time each workday. 

We are looking for driven, creative, and passionate individuals to join in our mission. An inclusive and diverse culture are key components of mental well-being in the workplace, and that starts with how we build our own team. If you're excited about a role, we'd love to hear from you!

The Role

The Vice President of Product Management, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, will have direct responsibility for product strategy and execution at Modern Health. This person will develop the 2-5 year strategic product roadmap tied to our product vision, lead a team of product managers to deliver value via new capabilities and innovation and work with our leadership team to bring new product lines to market. You’ll partner closely with nearly every department to improve our products and bring new products to life. This means working with Engineering, Design, Data, Clinical Strategy & Research, Operations, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and the entire executive team.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii.

What You’ll Do

  • Provide leadership and work across functional areas to drive the product strategy and roadmap. We have ambitious goals of fulfilling our mission of improving the lives of people and their communities by offering an inclusive mental health solution that drives the best outcomes, is the most cost-effective, and is the most engaging. You will own how we develop, drive and execute on that product strategy to bring new capabilities and product lines to life
  • Provide strong leadership through thoughtful talent recognition, coaching, development and performance management for an incredibly talented product management team
  • Build trusted relationships across the enterprise and influence business partners that have no direct reporting line
  • Own the product roadmap for a subset of products; prioritizing long-term and short-term initiatives that are aimed at driving Modern Health ahead in alignment with strategic business objectives
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to create effective relationships, listen, communicate, influence, and collaborate cross-team at all organizational levels
  • Continuously manage expectations with all relevant stakeholders including the senior leadership team
  • Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the organization’s ability to meet its strategic, financial and technical goals
  • Create and maintain sequencing of initiatives, prioritization and tradeoffs with regards to both short-term and long-term strategic goals
  • Work with other business partners to perform deep data driven analysis, to surface actionable insights and product requirements; drive the implementation of recommendations derived from this analysis
  • Drive cross-functional strategic projects. You will lead and drive cross-functional strategic projects. You'll influence and bring together the team, collaborating with others to translate strategic opportunities into deliverable projects. You will measure and report on the business impact of such projects
  • Bring user and market insights—from user research, customer-facing teams, the competition, and market research—into our product development process
  • Develop a sharp perspective on how we develop new products or drive engagement with existing ones in order to drive outcomes and impact revenue
  • Be a voice of the user, our customers and a voice of the market

Who You Are

  • 12+ years of Product Management experience and 5+ of direct management experience
  • Strong product management leadership experience. You've launched multiple B2B products and capabilities from ideation to launch to adoption in a fast-changing market
  • Experienced people manager. You have hired, managed, and led other product managers. You understand what it takes to be a successful product manager and you actively work to bring the best out in your people
  • Background or experience in the healthcare industry or closely related field is preferred
  • Clear communicator. We expect you to take big, ambitious ideas and distill them down into concise, exciting talking points. You have experience bringing the voice of the customer to an entire team and get buy-in on your ideas and strategies
  • Ability to think strategically while being able to dig in with the team to execute on the ground. Ideally, you have hands-on experience working in startups that are growing and transitioning to scale
  • Excellent storytelling abilities. You have strong communication skills—both written and verbal. You have the ability to distill complex ideas into simple, crisp words and concepts
  • Data-oriented. You like working with data and insights and pair that with your passion for customers to inform your points of view for how to take our product to market and you have a strong data and analytics background with a demonstrated ability to use hard data to back up assumptions and develop business cases
  • Self-starter; you spot opportunities to make things better and take ownership over them
  • Track record of leadership that drives initiatives to completion by collaborating across teams. You can effectively partner with engineering, clinical, operations, research, design, sales, customer success, finance, and marketing teammates
  • Strong technical abilities. You are intimately familiar with SaaS development practices used to build and deploy modern software applications
  • Intellectual thought leadership on Product Management, driving with rigor the agile product development process
  • Attention to detail, including proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is a must
  • Proven ability to dive deep to learn new products, businesses, and the competitive landscape
  • An ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, schedule tradeoffs and opportunistic new ideas with technical and non-technical employees
  • Proven creativity in the software that you've helped deliver including use and value from newer AI technologies
  • Positive attitude and fit with the Modern Health team culture

Benefits

Fundamentals:

  • Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance 
  • High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
  • Generous Time Off 
  • Company-wide Collective Pause Days 

Family Support:

  • Parental Leave Policy 
  • Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
  • Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter

Professional Development:

  • Professional Development Stipend

Financial Wellness:

  • 401k
  • Financial Planning Benefit through Origin

But wait there’s more…! 

  • Annual Wellness Stipend to use on items that promote your overall well being 
  • New Hire Stipend to help cover work-from-home setup costs
  • ModSquad Community: Virtual events like active ERGs, holiday themed activities, team-building events and more
  • Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement

Equal Pay for Equal Work Act Information

Please refer to the ranges below to find the starting annual pay range for individuals applying to work remotely from the following locations for this role.

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. Ranges are not necessarily indicative of the associated starting pay range in other locations. Full-time employees are also eligible for Modern Health's equity program and incredible benefits package. See our Careers page for more information.

Depending on the scope of the role, some ranges are indicative of On Target Earnings (OTE) and includes both base pay and commission at 100% achievement of established targets.

Pay Range

$250,000—$300,000 USD

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