FreeWill · 15 hours ago
VP of R&D
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
10+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Build and manage a strategic, high-performing product, engineering, design, and IT/ security team
Build a series of successful products that achieve product-market fit
Hire and develop strong and diverse talent on the product, engineering, and design teams
In addition, to directly managed US-based team, work closely with our newly acquired tech team in Lahore, Pakistan to build and test MVPs of new products
Advocate for the right resources at the right times to achieve goals
Develop processes and best practices for product, design, and engineering departments to work well together
Ensure strong collaboration across the tech teams and the go-to-market teams (sales, marketing, customer success)
Help Co-CEOs articulate and perpetuate product vision throughout organization
Manage Director of Product Strategy, who owns product roadmapping and manages the product management team
Work closely with Director of Expansion to validate new product lines
Act with and lead others to act with FreeWill’s values of focus, joy, kindness, and courage
Qualification
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Required
5+ years of experience leading product or engineering teams
10+ years of experience in product or engineering management, including at a B2B SaaS company
Proven success in recruiting high performing, diverse talent at high velocity and building an effective and inclusive team culture
Expert at product management best practices including: feature work, growth work, scaling work, and PMF expansion
Strong problem solving skills. Makes data-driven decisions, and is open-minded towards different perspectives
Strong communication, emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills – up, down, across, and externally
Acts with integrity, professionalism, low ego, and high self-awareness
Enjoys collaboration, listening, and learning
Comfort moving quickly in a fast-paced environment and making decisions with imperfect information
Impact and results-focused
Benefits
Work from home
Unlimited PTO
Flexible hours
Competitive salary
Commuter benefits
Company stock options
401k
Medical/Dental/Vision (some single coverage medical plans are 100% employer paid, subsidized rates for spousal, parent-child, and family coverage)
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Life and AD&D insurance
Free One Medical membership
Paid parental leave for all parents
Company
FreeWill
FreeWill offers philanthropy and estate planning tools for donors and fundraisers to donate simpler.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$30MKey Investors
Bain Capital Double Impact FundICONIQ Growth
2022-03-02Series B· $30M
2020-09-04Series A
2019-01-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Jennifer Xia
Founder & Co-CEO
Patrick Schmitt
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Recent News
2024-11-26
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2023-10-14
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