Director of Business Strategy, Insights & Data, Productboard
+ Stock options
Product management platform
Open for applications
Product management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help companies across the globe build truly excellent products.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience across analytics, strategy, and/or data roles; experience in SaaS or high-growth tech environments strongly preferred
- Experience partnering with or working in Marketing and Product teams
- Demonstrated success managing multi-disciplinary teams and shipping high-impact, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills; able to independently drive end-to-end execution
- Deep familiarity with modern data tools (e.g., SQL, Looker, Amplitude); hands-on experience preferred
- Track record of translating data into business action through clear communication and stakeholder partnership
- Proven ability to influence executive decision-making through data and narrative
What the job involves
- The Growth team’s goal is to make it exceptionally easy for people around the world to discover, trial, buy, and use our suite of products and services
- As a result, our team is responsible for driving sustainable business growth by increasing acquisition, monetization, conversion, and retention throughout the end-to-end customer funnel
- We use experimentation, customer feedback, and data-driven insights to guide our work and optimize the customer experience
- As the Director of Business Insights, Data, & Analytics at Productboard, you will lead a newly formed, cross-functional team that brings together Product Analytics, Data Engineering, and Business Insights & Strategy under the Growth organization
- This role is both strategic and hands-on: you’ll manage a team of analysts and engineers while rolling up your sleeves to tackle high-impact business problems
- You’ll play a critical role in aligning analytics capabilities with business priorities across Product, GTM, and Marketing, helping Productboard scale smarter and move faster
- You will report to the VP of Growth
- Provide leadership and guidance across three core teams: Product Analytics, Business Strategy & Insights, and Data Engineering
- Contribute directly to analysis and project work, especially for ambiguous, high-priority business questions
- Partner with stakeholders in Marketing, Product, GTM, and Finance to diagnose key challenges and generate actionable insights
- Prioritize initiatives and allocate analytical and engineering resources to maximize business impact
- Operationalize recommendations by coordinating closely with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., playbooks, talk tracks, dashboards)
- Oversee data infrastructure development and ensure alignment between systems architecture and business needs
- Build scalable processes for insight generation and cross-org alignment on metrics and reporting
- Serve as a thought partner to Growth and executive leadership in shaping strategic decisions
- Champion a culture of curiosity, rigor, and continuous improvement across your teams
Our take
Productboard is a product management system which plays a major role in helping businesses understand their market, letting them get the best products to market quickly. The platform is particularly focused on helping companies understand what customers require from them, enabling sound decisions to be made on what to prioritize.
The platform organizes project management with customer feedback as its primary guiding factor, helping businesses identify the most important trends based on demand. The scope of its offerings enables it to provide thousands of leading companies with the various tools they need to drive growth. It continues to add new capabilities to bring extra value to this customer base.
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Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2022
$125m
SERIES D
Apr 2021
$72m
SERIES C
Total funding: $257.7m
Company benefits
- Competitive stock options
- Continuous professional growth
- Investment into your health & wellness
- Free food and catered lunches
- Pet-friendly offices
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hubert Palan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Startup Mentor, Advisor and Angel Investor. Previously VP of Product Management at GoodData and Head of Product and Marketing at Maestro Market.
Daniel Hejl
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Senior Software Engineer at Trumaker, TopMonks and ICZ, as well as Software Engineer at Allianz Direct New Europe and Qbizm Technologies.
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