VP Product - Jobs in Calgary, AB

Job Description

About us:PurposeMed’s mission is to improve access to complex care for patients in underserved communities. We are building a platform product that can support additional complex care conditions and patients. We launched in July 2020 after raising a seed round and are exploding with demand from patients to offer more services.PurposeMed’s first brand, Freddie, is focused on improving sexual health through education, prevention and treatment with a focus on the LGBTQ2S+ community. Freddie enables access to PrEP, an HIV prevention medication that reduces the risk of acquiring HIV by 99%. We’re now the largest HIV prevention service in Canada.In February 2022, we launched our second brand, Frida, which is focused on improving mental health and happiness through education, diagnosis and treatment. Initially, Frida has created easier access to adult ADHD diagnosis and made treatment fast and affordable.PurposeMed is looking for a VP/Head of Product to take the PurposeMed platform into its next phase of growth, unifying all the apps for our expanding verticals through a patient-centric strategy, while being a strong people leader for the Product Management and Design teams. Reporting into the COO, this role will work directly with our founders and leaders from all functions across the business to ensure we’re building solutions that solve our patients’ complex healthcare needs in a scalable way.Successful candidates will have a strong management background and are able to work with our Engineering leader to recruit, motivate and develop our growing team. You will set the vision for the direction that the product needs to go in to solve our users’ problems, while meeting PurposeMed’s business objectives. You are a champion for the product experience of all our users, from our patients, to our providers, and you recognize the vital role that technology has to play in delivering non-judgmental and high-quality health care. Ideal candidates will have a keen interest in building a platform that can scale across adjacent use cases.We have a preference for people based in Calgary (where we have an office and where most of our Engineering team is located), but are also open to remote candidates in Canada.Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Founders and executives to translate the company’s mission into a product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Be the product leader that drives conversations about how technology can be leveraged to support patients’ needs, bring new product verticals to market, and scale our internal operations
• Identify our most critical product metrics and enable the Product Managers to own their respective roadmaps to improve them
• Lead recruiting efforts to find, interview, hire, onboard and grow our talent. Manage the Product Managers and Designers on the team through 1:1s, supporting their professional development and driving high-performance on the team.
• Collaborate with the Engineering leader to ensure that the broader technology team is structured to be aligned to the needs of the business
• Develop and own a product strategy that will lead to step functions in the growth of the product for the Freddie, Frida and future brands
• Support the organizational development of a Growth Product function which is currently in its early stages and beginning to take shape
• Champion for the product experience of all our users, from our patients to our providers, and balance the quick wins with the structural leaps

What we’re looking for:

• You love thinking in systems, and are able to identify the opportunities that will lead to a step function in growth, even if that requires challenging the status quo and advocating for an overhaul
• You love collaborating with a fast-moving team and are able to lead change management while fostering an inclusive culture
• You have excellent judgment and can help others with making difficult trade-off decisions quickly and decisively
• You lead with empathy but you can hold others accountable while creating a safe low-threat environment that teams can thrive in
• You have strong analytical skills to bring a data-driven approach to product management and design
• You are not intimidated by building the plane while flying it: you’re excited to help us iterate on our existing discovery and delivery processes
• You give your team clear goals and the autonomy to decide how they hit them, under your coaching and strategic direction

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in consumer or B2B software,, with 5+ years in leadership roles across product teams
• Experience with hiring, coaching and managing high-performing teams in a rapidly growing company where you get to co-design the squad structures with your Engineering Leader to drive outcomes
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; both written and verbal
• Strong ability to translate complex customer problems into simple, user-friendly solutions
• Familiar with working in healthtech or other early stage startups is a bonus but not required

PurposeMed is committed to being an equal opportunity employer, so we highly encourage those from excluded and marginalized communities to apply. Such as (but not limited to): Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, trans and non-binary, LGBTQ2S+, disabled, HIV positive people. We look forward to your application!Quick Apply

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