Director of Product

About Harver

Harver is the industry leading hiring solution helping organizations optimize their talent decisions. Rooted in over 35 years of rich data insights, the company’s portfolio of solutions enables organizations to make the best talent decisions across the entire employee lifecycle. Having processed over 100 million candidates, Harver provides trusted, flexible, and adaptable offerings making hiring better, faster, and fundamentally more fair. More than 1,300 customers trust Harver to help put purpose to work.    

At Harver, we are:  

• Transparent: We believe in fostering an open, honest, and accountable environment where information flows freely and clearly. We are dedicated to being transparent in our decision-making processes, communication, and actions, both with our customers, peers, and partners. 
• Collaborative: We embrace the power of collaboration and recognize that every individual brings unique strengths to the table. We have strong working relationships and partner together with respect, kindness, and empathy to achieve shared goals and deliver impactful results to our peers, customers, and partners. 
• Curious: We embrace curiosity as a driving force for continuous learning and innovation. We are committed to being agile, dynamic, and adaptive, always seeking opportunities to improve and evolve in response to new challenges and changing environments.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a Senior Director of Product to lead product management and architecture across Harver’s three platforms (Harver, Pymetrics, Checkster). This leader will translate the CPO’s long-term vision into clear quarterly product priorities, ensuring that the roadmap aligns to customer needs and business objectives.

The Senior Director will act as the operational bridge between global customer-facing teams (Sales, CS, Marketing, Finance) and our Amsterdam-based R&D teams, owning day-to-day product execution, roadmap delivery, and monetization strategy.

This role is firmly embedded in Product, but requires strong commercial acumen and a hands-on leadership style to ensure Harver builds the right products, with the right priorities, at the right time.

In this role you get to: 

• Build trust across functions → R&D and GTM feel aligned, with friction reduced.
• Drive monetization improvements → pricing & packaging refinements lead to measurable revenue impact.
• Ensure customer insight drives product → customer feedback clearly visible in roadmap decisions.
• Grow and empowering the product team → high performance, high retention, and increased team autonomy.
• Create clarity and focus in execution → tough trade-offs made decisively, teams feel confident in direction.

Product Strategy Execution

• Translate annual product strategy (set by the CPO) into quarterly priorities across the three platforms.
• Ensure execution is predictable, outcomes are measurable, and delivery is aligned to customer and business needs.

Cross-Functional Alignment

• Serve as the bridge between R&D (Amsterdam) and GTM functions (Sales, CS, Marketing, Finance).
• Create structured feedback loops that ensure customer insights shape product decisions.

Product Monetization (Pricing & Packaging)

• Lead Harver’s pricing and packaging execution, in close partnership with Finance, RevOps, and Sales.
• Recommend, test, and implement monetization models to improve ARR, NRR, and win rates.

Customer Engagement & Feedback

• Join customer calls, review win/loss analyses, and ensure product teams are informed by real-world customer needs.
• Represent “voice of the customer” within the product team.

Team Leadership & Development

• Manage and mentor a global team of PMs and a Product Architect.
• Build a culture of clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure R&D teams are empowered to focus on discovery and delivery excellence.

Execution & Decision-Making

• Make confident trade-off calls with limited data, ensuring clarity and focus for teams.
• Provide operational leadership so the CPO can remain focused on vision, board-level alignment, and industry leadership.
• Delivering aligned quarterly roadmaps → strategy translated into action, on time and on solving the client/user need.

Success Metrics

• Retention & Growth – Improvements in GDR/NDR (net and gross dollar retention).
• Customer Satisfaction – Higher NPS of Product from client surveys.
• Client Penetration – Growth in market share within existing clients (measured by % of jobs served).
• Discovery Accuracy – well discovered and delivered capabilities that solve identifies problems for users.
• Cross-Functional Alignment – Stronger GTM/R&D collaboration, measured by fewer escalations and faster cycle times.
• Monetization Impact – Tangible ARR/NRR uplift driven by pricing/packaging improvements.
• Org Health – A high-performing, engaged PM team (measured by retention, performance, and leadership growth).

Travel and Collaboration Expectations:

Global Collaboration – Regular engagement with:

• GTM teams (US & Europe)
• Product/R&D teams (Amsterdam)
• Customers (US & Europe)
• Travel – Minimum quarterly travel to Amsterdam (4–8 trips per year, ~6 weeks total annually).
• Working Hours – Adjusted schedule to ensure daily overlap with Amsterdam (start early in Atlanta, +/- 1 hour).

We’re looking for people who have:  

• Strategic & Commercially Savvy – understands both the “build” and “business” sides.
• Decisive – makes tough calls quickly, even with imperfect information.
• Bridge Builder – earns trust with both execs and frontline teams across functions.
• Detail-Oriented – doesn’t just set vision, but dives into execution quality.
• People Leader – inspires and develops PMs and architects across geos.
• Resilient & Confident – thrives under pressure, doesn’t shy from conflict.

Location

Global (preferred: Atlanta, US)

Reports To

Chief Product Officer (CPO)

Direct Reports (Amsterdam-based)

· 3 Product Managers

· 2 Group Product Managers

· 1 Product Architect

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