Head of Product

Northbeam

$300K — $350K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of product management experience at a senior level in a B2B SaaS company.
  • Experience in marketing measurement, adtech or martech; eCommerce understanding valuable.
  • Proven track record with data-heavy products, including analytics and ML models.
  • Experience shipping AI-powered product features and an understanding of AI value creation.
  • Demonstrated ability to act decisively and thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments.
  • Hands-on approach to problem-solving; prefers executing rather than delegating.
  • Strong customer focus; builds product conviction through direct customer engagement.
  • Collaborative experience with design teams to create cohesive user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own and prioritize the company roadmap based on customer needs and company strategy.
  • Lead major product initiatives from concept to execution, ensuring alignment with stakeholders.
  • Engage directly with customers to identify their needs and translate them into product requirements.
  • Integrate AI capabilities into products to enhance customer value and product utility.
  • Manage and mentor a team of senior product managers to elevate their performance.
  • Collaborate closely with design leadership to maintain high standards for product usability.
  • Establish and oversee product quality through rigorous user acceptance testing.

Benefits

  • Equity package in addition to base salary.
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions.
  • Flexible PTO policy allowing for personal time off.
  • 12 paid holidays and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • $500 stipend for remote work setup costs.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are a design-led, customer-first organization. Product and Design sit together as one team by intention: we believe the best products come from deeply understanding customer problems and obsessing over the experience of solving them, not from shipping features. If you believe craft, customer empathy, and speed can coexist, you9ll feel at home here.

We9re hiring a senior product leader to partner directly with our Chief Product & Design Officer and our CEO in shaping where Northbeam goes next. This is one of the most senior product roles in the company: you will own the company roadmap, lead our most important product initiatives from concept through execution, and manage a small team of exceptionally senior product managers (Principal level and above).

To be clear about what this role is: it is a player-coach role where the "player" part comes first. Management is a part of the job but execution is paramount. You will personally drive major projects: writing the specs, sitting with customers, working through complex problems with engineering and data science, sweating the details with design, and pushing releases over the line. We move fast, and we9re looking for someone who generates momentum rather than waits for it.
What You9ll Do
  • Own the company roadmap. Synthesize customer needs, market dynamics, data science capabilities, and company strategy into a clear, prioritized roadmap, and be accountable for delivering it.
  • Lead flagship initiatives end-to-end. Take our most ambitious product bets from ambiguous concept to shipped, adopted product. You are the driver: framing the problem, aligning the team, making the calls, and unblocking execution daily.
  • Work directly with customers. Spend real time with the brands and agencies who use Northbeam, through calls, onsites, and betas, to understand their measurement problems firsthand and translate that understanding into product decisions.
  • Drive AI into the core of the product. Champion how AI reshapes marketing measurement, from agentic analysis and natural-language insights to model-driven recommendations, and ship AI capabilities that create real customer value, not demos.
  • Manage and elevate a small team of very senior PMs. Set a high bar, give sharp feedback, and create the conditions for Principal+ PMs to do the best work of their careers. This is a coaching role, not a layer.
  • Partner deeply with Design. We9re a design-led org. You9ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with design leadership to ensure everything we ship is not just powerful but genuinely great to use.
  • Own product quality. Define and run the user acceptance testing process for everything we ship. You set the quality bar, decide when something is ready for customers, and make sure the team catches problems before customers do.
  • Run rigorous product development sprints. Set the processes for how we build: scoping MVPs, rigorously prioritizing stories, defining roll-out plans, and testing before launch. Run the sprints yourself for the initiatives you lead, and hold the team to the same operating rhythm.
  • Equip our go-to-market teams. Own the relationship with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success: arm them with playbooks, help shape client messaging, provide release details, and jump in to troubleshoot when issues come up.
  • Collaborate across the company. Work closely with Engineering, Data Science, Sales, and Customer Success to align the organization behind the roadmap and keep execution honest.
What We9re Looking For
  • 10+ years in product management, with senior leadership experience at a B2B SaaS company; you9ve operated at Director level or above and managed senior PMs.
  • Experience working in marketing measurement, attribution, adtech or martech. Experience working within eCommerce could work if you knowhow marketing attribution works, including MTA, MMM, incrementality, pixel and server-side tracking, platform APIs, and privacy constraints, and you can hold your own with both data scientists and performance marketers.
  • A track record on data-heavy products. You9ve shipped products built on large-scale data pipelines, analytics, or ML models, and you9re comfortable making product decisions that involve statistical nuance and data quality tradeoffs.
  • Demonstrated experience building with AI. You9ve shipped AI-powered product capabilities (LLM features, agents, ML-driven workflows) and have a strong, practical point of view on where AI creates durable value.
  • A driver9s mentality. You default to action, push relentlessly toward solutions, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where the roadmap moves in weeks, not quarters. Ambiguity energizes you.
  • A hands-on builder. You9d rather write the doc, run the customer call, and dig into the data yourself than delegate the interesting problems. You lead projects, not just people.
  • A first-principles problem solver. You break down hard, messy problems, form a hypothesis, and test your way to answers.
  • Customer obsession. You build conviction from direct customer contact, not secondhand summaries, and you enjoy working directly with clients to understand and deliver on their needs.
  • Experience partnering closely with design. You9ve worked shoulder-to-shoulder with designers and design leadership, and you believe great product experiences are built with design, not handed off to it.
  • BS degree required; an engineering, computer science, or data science background is strongly preferred.
Location

This role is based in San Francisco, with three days a week in our office and flexibility on which days work for your schedule. Our co-founders (CEO and CTO), VP of Data Science, VP and Director of Engineering, and Chief Product & Design Officer are all Bay Area-based, and you9ll get to work closely with them in person. For a role this senior, that access matters.
Nice to Have
  • Experience at an analytics company
  • Experience working in or selling to ecommerce / DTC and performance marketing teams


Base Salary Range

$300,000-$350,000 USD

Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, and location.

In addition to your base salary, we offer an equity package, comprehensive healthcare benefits (medical, dental, and vision), and a 401(k) plan. Our team enjoys a flexible PTO policy, 12 company-paid holidays, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave. We also provide a $500 work-from-home stipend to support your remote setup.

Interview Process
The interview process varies by role but typically begins with a 30-minute interview with a Northbeam recruiter, followed by a video interview with the hiring manager. Next, candidates complete a role-specific video interview followed by video or onsite interviews with several team members. The final step is a video interview with our CEO/Co-founder. The entire interview process is usually 5-7 interviews total and requires around 5-8 hours of your time.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis.

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