VP Product Management @ Canary Technologies

Canary Technologies is a fast-growing enterprise hospitality technology company that provides hotels with innovative solutions to drive efficiency and enhance the guest experience. Our core solutions get rid of antiquated technology in hotels. With backing from some of the top investors in Silicon Valley, including Y Combinator, Canary Technologies is trusted by thousands worldwide and serves some of the world’s largest and most iconic hotel brands.

This opportunity will provide close interaction with senior leaders and founders. Our founders are alums of the Cornell Hotel School, Columbia University, and The University of Pennsylvania- Wharton. They have previously built software companies and have worked at firms such as Bain & Company and Starwood Hotels & Resorts.

We are an organization that strongly believes in meritocracy and performance. There is significant opportunity for advancement and growth in this role, both of which are based on performance and talent.

Canary recently raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners that will dramatically accelerate the development of the product towards their vision. With the fresh capital, they’re seeking a product leader to work directly with the founders to refine the long term product roadmap, execute, and operationalize the success of the team.

Responsibilities

Develop, align, communicate, and maintain the overall product roadmap
Work closely with engineering leadership and inspire both the product team and engineering team to align around a clear and measurable vision
Spend time with customers in order to establish a clear and streamlined feedback loop
Build, develop and retain a highly capable and nimble team, able to execute on product priorities

Requirements

Comfortable operating at an early stage company - scrappy, hands-on leader that loves building products and is willing to do whatever it takes to deliver results
Operationally proficient - able to take long term goals and develop near term KPIs around those goals
Proven leader with a history of attracting and developing outstanding talent
High EQ; brings business acumen, empathy, and executive level communication skills; collaborative approach
Has worked in a startup environment and/or overseen a broad scope within a larger org
Seeks to improve the culture; driven to make the entire team and product better
Collaborative with other parts of the company and can see the forest through the trees - does not believe in process for the sake of process
Strong degree of gravitas and ability to translate between broad company vision and actionable direction.
Credibility and experience building B2B or B2B2C SaaS with a strong user experience component, ideally has experience building software for a non-technical buyer.

Most importantly, we work hard to ensure Canary is a fun and exciting place to work. How do we do this?

First, we’ve added Canary Days to the calendar as company holidays to ensure that the team has 1 long weekend each month.

Second, we have a list clubs and perks listed below that create space for us to hang out!

Self Improvement Club: We meet each month and share our personal goals for the month. We are able to expense $75 towards any purchases that helped us achieve these goals.

Fireside Chat: We meet each month to discuss a wide range of issues. This group was started focused on women’s issues and has expanded in scope over the last several months.

Donuts! : Each week a Slackbot called ‘Donut’ pairs us up with a random teammate.

$50 to stay at any hotel that uses Canary Check-inBook a trip at one of the hotels that has Canary Checkin, stay there, leave a review on TripAdvisor/Google and get a $50 reimbursement!

$500 travel reimbursement: We get up to $500 if we want to make a trip to SF or NY for personal reasons. We will spend at least 3 days of that trip working at a wework with fellow Canaryites!