Head of Product

About Opalford Labs:

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Durham, North Carolina and two nearshore delivery centres.

Position summary:

We're looking for a Head of Product to join our team. This is a remote role. Our Platform team has eight engineers and a designer. The PM sets direction, writes specs and checks whether what we shipped worked. We are headquartered in Durham and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern.

Your responsibilities:

• Test prototypes with users alongside designers before engineering starts.
• Interview customers and read support tickets to understand real problems.
• Make tradeoff calls on scope, timing and quality.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog in Jira or Linear.
• Review competitor products and pricing.
• Coordinate launches with marketing, sales enablement and support.
• Attend sprint ceremonies and unblock the team on product questions.
• Plan quarterly roadmaps with engineering and design leads.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of product management experience on a software product.
• Strong writing, including the discipline to keep documents short.
• Track record of shipping features that measurably moved a metric.

Bonus points:

• Background as an engineer, designer or analyst before moving into product.
• Domain knowledge in payments, healthcare or logistics.
• Pricing and packaging decisions.

Pay and benefits:

Compensation: $3,400 - $4,300 monthly

• Annual rate review.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Paid time off.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Bangladesh.

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Opalford Labs.