Head of Product

Job Description

Percolate is built by marketers for marketers.

Founded in 2011 to address the growing gap between the increasing demand for content (primarily driven by the explosion of social media) and the capability of the current technologies to solve this problem, Percolate has continued to create solutions focus on the enormous challenges presented by enterprise marketing operations. It has been a driving voice in the development of new categories of marketing technology - Content Marketing Platforms (CMP) and Marketing Resource Management (MRM) and recognized as the only consensus leader in these emerging categories by analyst firms such as Forrester, Gartner, and SiriusDecisions.

Today, Percolate serves over 600 brands. Some of the world’s largest companies — including Cisco,VMware, Electronic Arts, and Bosch — use Percolate to help them deal with one of the fundamental challenges facing all marketers - orchestrating their marketing processes and enabling the best possible customer experiences.

We are looking for a unique individual who, as Head of Product of Percolate, can lead our delivery of a highly integrated CMP that connects to the broader martech ecosystem and allows customers to customize and automate their Percolate experience. This is a highly visible role that reports directly to our CEO and is responsible for defining and driving Percolate’s product strategy, customer discovery, product discovery, and product development process.

As the Head of Product, you will be responsible for growing the team, setting the overall vision and strategy for the product, and leading cross-functional initiatives. The ideal candidate is a proven B2B software/SaaS tech marketing leader with a track record of effective stakeholder management and internal evangelism. This role demands a product leader who is able to define and develop an overall product strategy, roadmap, and business plan to inform decision making and deliver business results. He/she does not shy away from being bold, can react quickly to an ever-changing reality, and seeks to be an evangelist for the company and our vision for changing how marketing is done today.

Characteristics of a successful candidate:

• Passion for building products and defining categories. You are one of the chief stewards in developing the industry’s first Developer Platform for Content Marketing and this responsibility must be practiced thoughtfully and requires someone with extensive product intelligence and market intelligence.
• An adaptable entrepreneurial spirit: you want to go out and build a product that is the first of its kind and have the vision and grit to go do it.
• Successful outcomes scaling product teams and delivering profitable growth through product development. You must be comfortable with the high growth company dynamic which entails rolling up your sleeves and doing whatever it takes to get the job done given the constraints of time, budget, and human resources.
• Deep understanding of how to build enterprise software. You must be specialized in product insights and deliver on our promise to “build software for marketers by marketers”.
• Proven results managing agile methodology and working it into all aspects of product management activities. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and execute multiple programs with competing priorities.
• Requisite analytical ability needed to build out the scorecards, reports and insights necessary to optimize product operations and spend. You have to be able to use both your right and left brain to see around corners AND demonstrate we are maximizing our investments and talent.
• Drive to build relationships with internal and external partners (sales, channel, marketing, communications and community, etc.) to drive product development. You want to be a business leader not just a product leader and are willing to lean in across all functions to identify problems and create solutions.