Mandate Points:

- Must have led end-to-end product development and product management, with a track record of successfully launched products.

- Should have strong experience in B2B product environments.

- Preference for candidates who have either worked in the US, studied in the US, or have prior professional exposure to the US market.

- Defined and driven the product roadmap for an existing product, focusing on scalability and growth

- Owned and executed GTM (Go-to-Market) strategies to ensure successful product positioning and adoption

- Managed sales strategy and alignment, working closely with sales teams to drive revenue and market expansion

- We're looking for someone with proven experience working in SaaS companies, with a strong understanding of subscription-based business models, product scaling, and customer retention strategies

Quick Summary:

Lightcast is seeking a visionary, people-centered Chief Product Officer (CPO) to lead our global product organization and define the next era of workforce intelligence. This executive role offers the opportunity to shape a mission-driven company thats redefining how people and organizations understand the labor market and navigate the future of work. As a key member of the executive team, the CPO will scale a high-performing, innovation-focused team, influence a diverse product portfolio across regions and sectors, and drive strategic initiatives like Beacon. You'll lead in a values-driven culture grounded in integrity, impact, and innovation building category-defining products that deliver real market advantage.

Major Responsibilities:

Strategic Product Leadership

- Define and champion the long-term product vision and roadmap that aligns to Lightcasts strategic priorities and growth ambitions across B2B segments.

- Set and deliver against clear, measurable outcomes including product roadmap milestones, competitive feature gaps closed, and product-driven CSAT/NPS improvements.

- Ensure that product priorities reflect both short-term execution and long-term innovation, with focus on customer value, defensibility, and scalability.

Customer and Market Alignment

- Own the Customer Advisory Board structure and cadence to gather actionable feedback that influences roadmap and drives deeper market alignment.

- Drive ongoing competitive analysis and benchmarking to identify gaps and opportunities, and prioritize innovation that positions Lightcast as a category leader.

- Cultivate a deep understanding of customer workflows, challenges, and use cases across multiple industries to build differentiated solutions.

Execution and Operational Excellence

- Lead, coach, and scale a global product organization of 60+, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.

- Align cross-functional teams engineering, design, GTM, and customer success around product priorities with clear success metrics and transparent execution plans.

- Partner with Marketing and Sales to support product launches, enablement, and adoption metrics that demonstrate market traction.

Partner-Enabled Product Growth

- Work in close collaboration with the partnerships team to ensure product strategy and execution enable joint solutions, data sharing, and embedded experiences with key global partners.

- Build scalable frameworks for partner-integrated product features and ensure alignment with commercial and technical partner teams.

Organizational Leadership and Collaboration

- Serve as a key member of the executive team, contributing to enterprise-wide planning and decision-making.

- Champion a product-first culture across the company by driving clarity, focus, and enthusiasm for product innovation and customer success.

- Serve as an internal and external spokesperson for Lightcasts product vision and innovation roadmap.

Education and Experience:

- 12+ years of progressive product leadership experience, including 3+ years in executive product roles at a high growth, B2B software or DaaS company.

- Proven success in leading product organizations with global scale, diverse vertical markets, and a partner embedded product strategy.

- Experience delivering complex, data-rich solutions that require cross-functional coordination, user-centered design, and analytics-driven prioritization.

- Track record of shipping enterprise software products with measurable outcomes such as revenue growth, CSAT improvements, retention metrics, and market expansion.

- Demonstrated success working across multiple customer segments preferably corporate, education, and public sector.

- Strong preference for candidates with domain expertise in data-as-a-service, labor market analytics, or workforce intelligence.

- Experience managing large, distributed teams (50+) and scaling product operations in tandem with business growth.

- Bachelors degree required; advanced degree in business, data science, or technology-related field preferred.