Head of Product

Responsiblities

• Product Strategy: Define a clear product vision and multi-quarter roadmap aligned to business goals and marketplace dynamics.
• Translate company strategy into actionable product priorities that drive measurable outcomes.
• Identify long-term opportunities and build the product foundation that will scale with the business.
• Execution: Act as the first full time product manager: own user research, requirements, specs, acceptance criteria, and launch processes.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to ship high-quality features with speed and precision.
• Manage cross-functional communication, ensuring all teams understand priorities, timelines, and responsibilities.
• Maintain a high-quality backlog and deliver frequent, meaningful releases.
• Process-Oriented LeadershipImplement lean, startup-friendly processes that enable rapid iteration and data-informed decision making.
• Establish systems for planning, testing, learning, and improving without creating excess overhead.
• Design and optimize operating processes across product and engineering to increase velocity and quality.
• Background Fit: Bring strong experience in consumer products, ideally within high-growth startups.
• Experience working in or with a two-sided marketplace is highly preferred.
• Understand how to build products for youth, parents, or education-oriented user groups (bonus).
• Have previously helped a product & engineering team grow from early-stage to scale.
• User Empathy: Deeply understand the needs and motivations of all four user groups: Parents, Students, College Athlete Mentors, and A2A internal teams.
• Conduct ongoing user interviews, shadow sessions, feedback loops, and research to validate hypotheses.
• Turn qualitative and quantitative insights into high-impact product decisions.
• Team Fit: Bring a collaborative, ownership-driven mindset that elevates the entire company.
• Inspire confidence with strong communication, clarity of thought, and the ability to rally teams around priorities.
• Opportunity to guide junior PMs over time as the team grows.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product management experience.
• Track record of shipping high-impact products in a fast-paced, early-stage environment.
• Experience owning strategy, roadmap, execution, and cross-functional alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to design processes and frameworks that support rapid iteration.
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable with metrics, experimentation, and data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and storytelling abilities.
• High empathy for users and passion for building exceptional consumer experiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading product for a two-sided marketplace.
• Background working with youth- or parent-facing consumer apps.
• Exposure to operations-heavy or services-enabled tech businesses.
• Experience as a student-athlete or familiarity with the collegiate sports ecosystem.