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Product Operations and Performance Lead

180k – 240kUnited StatesProduct OperationsRemote8+ YOE
Summary

Founding Product Operations Lead defining operational backbone for Product org. Owns planning systems, performance measurement, and execution cadences across Product, Engineering, and GTM teams.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain systems and processes to track product performance
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Client Operations, and Sales to set targets and prioritize action plans
  • Own and evolve the operating system used by Product to plan, track, and communicate work (roadmaps, planning artifacts, execution tracking)
  • Design and run lightweight operating cadences (planning cycles, product reviews, execution check-ins)
  • Improve visibility into priorities, progress, and decisions across the product organization
  • Define and own the PM tool stack and workflows
  • Identify opportunities for automation, AI/agents, and new workflows to improve how product ideas are surfaced and adopted
  • Build systems to capture and share high-quality product work and decisions across teams
  • Own and improve core product development processes, tooling, and team rituals
  • Drive cross-functional alignment between Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success
  • Facilitate roadmap planning by coordinating stakeholder inputs
  • Design and run Early Access Programs and alpha testing programs
  • Own launch coordination end-to-end with clear success metrics and post-launch monitoring
  • Maintain cross-team roadmap visibility

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management (within a Product organization), or similar role
  • Experience in fast-moving, product-led organizations with emphasis on minimum necessary process
  • Strong systems thinker who can design operating models that scale without bureaucracy
  • Proven scrappy executor who takes ownership
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and building from a blank page
  • Clear, concise communicator with strong written and verbal skills
  • Strong product instincts and empathy for Product Managers and cross-functional partners
  • Prior payments experience and curiosity to build deep understanding of VGS's products

Nice-to-Haves / Intangibles

  • Tenacity and early delivery mindset
  • Proactive improvement orientation balanced with pragmatism
  • Team-oriented problem solving
  • Commitment to excellence and discernment for quality across complex ecosystems
Skills
Product OperationsProgram ManagementRoadmap PlanningCross-functional AlignmentProduct Development ProcessesPM Tool StackOperating CadencesEarly Access ProgramsLaunch CoordinationPerformance Tracking
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