Who We Are
Simpplr is the leading AI-powered employee experience platform. Organizations use our forward-looking, adaptable products to deliver personalized experiences that inspire and engage their employees. Wherever people work, Simpplr enables them to flourish.
Trusted by more than 500+ leading brands, including Zoom, Snowflake, Moderna, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable productivity gains, increased employee engagement, and accelerated business performance.
Simpplr is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA with offices in the UK, Canada, and India, and is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Tola Capital. Learn more at simpplr.com.
The Opportunity
Simpplr is looking for a Product Strategy and Operations leader for its market-leading product that is defining the way companies engage and connect with their employees. This role will be working with multiple product teams based out of India/US/UK/Canada offices. This role will report directly to the Chief Product and Customer Experience Officer.
As a Product Strategy and Operations Leader, you will play a critical role in helping the company define and execute its product strategy and manage the operational rhythm of product usage and adoption health. You will be responsible for defining product-related metrics and developing insights to guide our product roadmap as well as measure the impact of capabilities being delivered especially around customer business value. You will also be responsible for understanding macro market trends, specifically around category adjacencies and disruptive trends, and developing strategies to capitalize on these trends working closely with product and CX leads and other cross-functional teams.
Your Job Responsibilities
What you will be doing:
Product Strategy:
- Collaborate closely with the Chief Product and Customer Experience Officer, product and UX leads in helping shape long-term product strategy and vision for the company
- Communicate and evangelize data driven insights to drive product strategy
- Create a data driven feedback loop to iterate product strategy regularly
Market opportunity analysis:
- Define, analyze, assess and/or perform Total Available Market (TAM) and Serviceable Available Market (SAM) assessments for future business opportunities
- Conduct market research where required to understand macro market trends, including category adjacencies, competitive landscape and disruptive trends to identify product gaps, articulate market opportunities and inform product roadmap decisions
- Work closely with product marketing and product leads in aligning with analyst feedback and shaping our narrative
Product & Business Impact:
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, and customer success, to ensure that we track leading and lagging indicators of product usage and adoption to align with customer needs and business value goals
- Define and track product-related metrics to measure the success of our product offerings
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the ongoing product and platform monetization/pricing strategy and execution in partnership with Finance and GTM teams
Operational Cadence:
- Manage day-to-day product operations including product dashboards, reporting out on key success metrics to key stakeholders and drive operational cadence - planning and execution for key business and product milestones
- Build and lead a team of product analysts to support the product strategy and operations function
- Architect, design, and oversee the building of relevant dashboards to support business reviews to analyze the health of the product and platform
Your Skillset
What makes you a great fit for the team:
- 10+ years of experience in product strategy and operations in a SaaS company
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to develop insights from data and market trends
- Experience with product-related metrics and KPIs
- Experience in market research and analysis, specifically around category adjacencies and disruptive trends. Any prior experience and knowledge of HR tech, Customer Experience, and or B2B2E (Employees) domains would be a bonus.
- Experience working closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success
- Strong leadership - player/coach skills, with the ability to build and lead a team of product analysts and program managers
- Ability to get hands-on when it comes to data integration, building dashboards, and using analytics tools
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization - written, verbal, and via data insights
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Data engineering and or any other technical discipline. MBA preferred
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and make a significant impact on the company’s product strategy and success. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for product and market trends, we encourage you to apply.
We offer a great working environment and an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic and rapidly scaling product organization.
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting base pay for this role is between $160,000 - $240,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for bonus, equity and benefits.
Simpplr is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetics.
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Benefits:
Simpplr provides a competitive compensation package along with other benefits. We believe in work-life integration and offer a flexible work environment. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team who believes in our mission, and values transparency, autonomy, and inclusiveness, make Simpplr an incredible place to work.
See what our employees say about working at Simpplr: Glassdoor Reviews
Simpplr’s Hub-Hybrid-Remote Model:
At Simpplr we believe that when work is good, life is better and that belief guides all we do. Including how we approach our flexible work model. Simpplr operates with a Hub-Hybrid-Remote model. This model is role-based with exceptions and provides employees with the flexibility that many have told us they want.
- Hub - 100% work from Simpplr office. Role requires Simpplifier to be in the office full-time.
- Hybrid - Hybrid work from home and office. Role dictates the ability to work from home, plus benefit from in-person collaboration on a regular basis.
- Remote - 100% remote. Role can be done anywhere within your country of hire, as long as the requirements of the role are met.
