VP, Product Management - Recognition

Job Description:
The Opportunity
Workhuman is home to the world's fastest-growing integrated social recognition and continuous performance management platform. Our human applications shape the future of work by helping organizations connect culture to shared purpose.
As the VP, Product - Recognition and Conversations, you will be the driving force within the leadership team in defining and executing a successful product strategy for our market dominating Social Recognition and Conversations (continuous performance management) suite of products.
We are looking for a highly entrepreneurial Product Leader to help innovate and execute product development. You will be globally responsible for developing a clear product roadmap to deliver product innovations from concept to release across Workhuman's Recognition & Conversations suite, with a specific focus on developing products that reinforce what it means to "work human." This role is highly cross-functional, partnering closely with teams of engineers, architects, designers, data scientists, and researchers to build exceptional products that deliver on our mission to "make work human." You will be leading a Product Management team by sharing your vision and advocating a culture of innovation, determination, imagination, and respect.
What we can offer you:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop, design, and implement a compelling product vision aligned with company business goals backed by robust data and quantitative research.
• Drive strategic direction by working effectively with cross-functional teams to gain alignment between product managers, designers, and engineers and then harness their expertise to deliver an exceptional product experience.
• Lead and manage the product management team empowering them as they collaborate with external customers in establishing roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives, and scoping, building, and launching new features and improved functionalities.
• Create a data-centric culture that empowers a relentless focus on rapid testing & iteration.
• Build with both a short- and long-term view that keeps us positioned in the right direction to achieve our long-term goals, while taking advantage of present-day opportunities.
• Act as the customer advocate in the development process - guiding the product's design, usability, and functionality.

The skills and experience you will bring:

• 15+ years of successful business leadership contributing to and blending product strategy, product management, and product marketing activities.
• Proven ability to set and communicate a vision and inspire and lead cross-functional teams to execute against this vision.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and gather consensus and champion the best ideas.
• Strong use of analytics, user research, and business cases to drive decisions and improve products.
• Proven track record of product innovation changing the dynamics of an existing or emerging market.
• Experience working in an enterprise cloud-based environment is highly desired.
• Active participation in client management, sales, and marketing opportunities, including speaking engagements and serving as a product evangelist to customers and large sales opportunities.

The Company:
At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals' differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don't think you "check every single box" above, please still consider applying. We're looking for a human who is collaborative, and innovative with a growth mindset. We love what we do because we're shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world's leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.
Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:

• We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large sized workplace category. We were also recognised as a Best Workplace for Women and a Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
• In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium sized workplace category.
• We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as a Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work and U.S. Best Places to Work.
• There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.
• Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based on solely on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.