VP of Product

Remote (United States)

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We Are Real.

Real is a venture-backed mental health care company based in New York City. We’re a team of innovators, clinicians, and technologists on a mission to make caring for our mental health a priority. We're redesigning mental healthcare through a digital platform and in-person experience, integrating empathy, design, and progressive care to build the most elevated end-to-end mental healthcare experience, while also improving the quality of care itself. We’re not simply “normalizing” mental health care, we’re celebrating it.

We’re looking for a Vice President of Product who is passionate about mental wellness.

The Vice President of Product will report to our CEO and will contribute to the company’s continuous growth and success by nurturing a growing product team, inclusive of product design, product management, and user research. We’re looking for a product visionary, looking to build the next generation of consumerized mental health care.

A day in the life:

Own the product roadmap and communicate with the executive team as Product continuously identifies opportunities and iterations to improve the member experience
Lead, manage and grow a team of director-level and IC product managers, product designers, and user researchers
Cultivate an outcome-focused, hypothesis-driven environment for your team and ensure daily efforts are effective and aligned with Real’s mission
Assess and identify opportunities and challenges in Real’s current products and shepherd new product capabilities in partnership with the content and engineering teams
Deeply understand the needs and pain points of our members in partnership with our research and data science team, in order to lead the product team and be the informed voice of the member
Establish, track, and interpret KPIs to diagnose current business trends and forecast future performance
Partner with engineering and content to ensure product, technology and content are being built in a way that is scalable, sustainable, reliable and best serving the member

You've got:

12+ years of experience in product management or analogous function/discipline
5+ years in a product leadership role with experience managing other PMs and managers
Experience building consumer-facing digital products, ideally in content, music, gaming and/or social media
High emotional intelligence. You can deeply understand the mental health journey, and what it means to meet people where they're at in times of need
Ability to build efficient processes and product vision
Proven ability to tell a story with strong attention to detail
Customer-centric mindset with the capability of translating that into the product development process
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and gather consensus and champion the best ideas

You are:

Passionate about mental wellness

You’re excited to improve mental healthcare and expand the number of people who have access to it.
You know the wellness market.
You care about the well-being of others.

Excited to build something from the ground up

You thrive in a fast-paced, scrappy start-up environment.
You’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
You’re a self-starter; you don’t need instructions to get work done.

Data-driven

You pull insights from data, ensuring new ideas come from member experience and utilization
You seek data and know how to collect more of it when needed
You are excited to receive feedback and grow

A team player

You know it takes a village.

We’re committed to your health and happiness (...which are synonymous, you know).

When deciding what benefits should look like at Real, we started by thinking long and hard about what employees need not only to work well, but to live well. Benefits impact how we act, rest, grieve, set boundaries, and take care of ourselves and others — and that means quality benefits are a fundamental part of not just a mentally well company, but a mentally well society. At Real, we want to offer our employees more than just "permission" to occasionally take a vacation or comp a therapy session. We want to give them the support and autonomy they need to feel well and maintain full lives outside of work.

Payout

Competitive salary, plus equity in an early-stage startup. Emphasis on “plus”—we won’t use equity to low-ball you.

Healthcare for Full-Time Employees:

100% company-funded health, vision, and dental insurance. That means no monthly premiums coming out of your paycheck.
FSA plans
Free One Medical membership
Free Real membership
$1800 annual mental wellness stipend you can put toward therapy, psychiatry, fitness and other wellness services
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance

Retirement for Full-Time Employees

401(k) — we don’t match yet, but you’ll thank us for the compound interest later.

Vacation

Unlimited PTO…that we actually encourage you to take, we promise.

Rest

Four day work weeks Monday-Thursday
Four-week paid sabbatical after five continuous years of work at Real.

Floating Holidays

Three floating holidays in addition to company-wide federal holidays so you can celebrate what’s important to you.

Grief Break

Real employees receive two weeks of paid time off in the event of losing a loved one. We know grief doesn’t have an end date, and we also know that “unlimited PTO” isn’t enough for most people to actually take ample time away from work. We want to support the process of grieving by naming this, and offering employees the opportunity to grieve without thinking of work.

Parenthood

Competitive paid parental leave and flexible return to work policy.

Autonomy

Flexible working environment — if you want to exercise at three PM, go for it.
Remote-inclusive team — whether you work from Colorado or NYC, you’re 100% part of the team.
Autonomous work culture. We don’t have to see a green dot on Slack to trust that you’re doing your job.

Growth at Work

We invest in your career. Our company's growing quickly, and we'll give you the opportunity to do the same. You'll have access to a number of professional development opportunities so that you can keep up with the company's evolving needs and grow your career along the way.

The responsibilities and duties of this position described here are representative of those an employee must perform. This is not a comprehensive list and other duties may be assigned.

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