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Help Scout

Customer service platform for support teams

Head of Product - Growth + Monetization

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/21/2026
$263k - $290k/yr
Expert
Remote in USA
RemoteApplicants must be based in the United States.
ProductProduct Management
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • You have spent 5+ years leading growth in B2B SaaS with a free-trial or freemium motion, and you have a concrete story of moving a product line's revenue or adoption.
  • You are hands-on with experimentation, define your own metrics, design your own tests, and can distinguish signal from noise.
  • You think in outcomes rather than features and build systems and playbooks that make others faster.
  • You can design an outcome-based pricing framework and explain its tradeoffs, and understand the difference between owning strategy and owning another person's execution.
  • You are technically fluent enough to hold an architecture conversation and credibly challenge an engineering estimate, and understand how AI and agentic product features can fail.
  • You lead through influence as well as authority, building peer product teams' interest in running experiments with you.
  • You have directly managed people before and can hire and coach a team of product managers as the group grows.
  • You are an excellent writer who communicates your thinking in one-pagers and briefs that move decisions forward, and are fluent with AI tools for research synthesis, strategy testing, and rapid prototyping.
Responsibilities
  • Own the vision, roadmap, and execution for the Growth team, including signup, onboarding, trial-to-paid conversion, and activation.
  • Build and run an experimentation practice spanning new business and expansion, including experiments within product lines owned by other product leaders.
  • Own the overarching pricing and packaging framework across the portfolio, providing the cross-product perspective while product heads execute for their product lines.
  • Create the growth model, experiment standards, and playbooks that enable teams across the company to ship growth work confidently without routing every decision through you.
  • Perform strategic work directly while hiring and managing a team of product managers as the group grows; be accountable for the group's revenue results.
  • Partner with go-to-market teams to coordinate the growth motion from first touch through expansion, and spend time with customers and in the data.

About the company

Help Scout is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage conversations with customers and improve long-term relationships. It operates on a subscription model with tiered pricing, targeting small businesses to high-growth startups. The product centers on conversation management, user permissions, spam and SMTP settings, and proactive in-app notifications, enabling teams to respond quickly, stay organized, and monitor performance through detailed reporting. Unlike competitors that chase feature parity, Help Scout focuses on the details that matter most to support teams, aiming to deliver reliable, value-driven customer experiences. The company’s goal is to enable customer-centric service by providing simple, effective tools that support efficient, personalized support and proactive communication.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$28M

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Founded

2011

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The August 2026 winter release shipped fifty-plus upgrades, signaling aggressive product momentum.
  • September 2026 status shows no downtime, supporting operational stability after August incidents.
  • SupportAgent.ai acquisition and configurable AI Agents strengthen Help Scout’s automation story.

What critics are saying

  • Zendesk’s May 2026 AI platform raises the bar with autonomous agents and outcome pricing.
  • Freshworks’ January 2026 Command Centre bundles email, chat, WhatsApp, and AI analytics.
  • Help Scout’s August 2026 inbox incidents exposed reliability risk during high-volume support windows.

What makes Help Scout unique

  • Help Scout’s 2026 releases add WhatsApp, SMS, Aircall, and AI Answers.
  • Help Scout’s inbox-first workflow stays simpler than Zendesk’s enterprise resolution platform.
  • Help Scout still markets relationship-centric support for SMBs, not sales-led omnichannel sprawl.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Wellness Program
  • Remote Work Options
  • Flexible Work Hours

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