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Director of Product, Core Business

Canada · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago

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About the role

Zipline's core product is the engine behind how the world's best retailers operate their frontline, and it's evolving fast.
This is a senior people leadership role for someone who has been here before.
You report to the SVP, Product and act as a peer to the Director of Product, Strategic Ventures.

Own the core product roadmap
Lead and develop a high-performing PM team
Manage, coach, and develop a team of product managers across Zipline's core product pillars.
Apply strong situational leadership, meeting each PM where they are, stretching those who are ready, supporting those who are developing, and holding the bar across the team.
Drive the IC-to-leader transition on your team: build accountability, strategic thinking, and autonomous decision-making as norms.
Over time, identify and develop the next layer of leadership within your team.
Drive strategy-to-execution alignment across Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD)
Partner with Data Science and Engineering to validate feasibility, scope, and customer value of AI-enabled features.
Help your team develop fluency with AI-native product thinking: what does an AI-first experience mean for this workflow, and what becomes possible for the customer?
Importantly (and in partnership with Product Operations) this means leading from the inside out, and supporting your product leaders in adopting AI into their own day-to-day craft and workflows, so that how we think, prioritize, and build reflects the same AI-first standard we hold for the product itself.

In partnership with Product Operations, lead the evolution of how the product team defines, prioritizes, and delivers work, building the operating muscle required to run an increasingly AI-augmented product organization.

the tools used daily by 620,000+ frontline workers across 200+ world-class brands.

At Zipline, we're committed to paying our team fairly, transparently, and in a way that supports growth. This role is targeting an annual salary within Canada of $197,208 CAD to $241,008 CAD.
The broad salary ranges reflect the growth someone will experience in the role-from developing skills to reaching expertise within their career level.
We've found that hiring team members with the expectation of being accomplished in the role sets them up for success, which for this position on the Canadian band is $197,208 CAD.
Salaries below this point typically reflect someone with potential but still building the necessary skills, while salaries above are for individuals already excelling in the role, with a deep understanding of Zipline's impact on customers, product, and company.
At Zipline, you'll continue to have career development conversations with your manager to ensure your compensation grows as you advance.
Our salary ranges are determined by market, factoring in our revenue and employee size and paying competitively.

World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
Learning: We support continuous learning and provide unlimited access to our Udemy Business account

confident the next 12-18 months of core product execution are owned and running.
you execute on what exists and evolves today; your peer bets on what comes next.
You are the strategic execution layer the SVP needs in order to operate at a company-level altitude.
You can stand on stage and tell Zipline's core product story as compellingly as anyone in the company.
Core product teams receive validated opportunities from Strategic Ventures and can scale them confidently. The handoff is clean, not chaotic.
Join a high performing, fully remote team and work where you're comfortable
Get meaningful ownership in a fast-growing, venture-backed company shaping the future of retail.
Annual company off-sites in fun locations.
We've done New York, Costa Rica, Whistler, Palm Springs, San Diego, and Mexico City.
Build and maintain deep knowledge of Zipline's customers, their frontline realities, and the problems that matter most to them.
Understand retail store operations deeply enough to challenge assumptions, sharpen requirements, and advocate credibly for what frontline workers actually need.
Our culture still feels like one big hug.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

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