Job Description

Director of Product

Our story:

Blackpanda is Asia's premier cyber security incident response firm, hyper-focused on digital forensics and cyber crisis response. Our team consists of an elite cadre of risk and security experts from various specializations, military special forces, intelligence, forensics, and law enforcement. We are also a fully distributed team across the globe and will be there 24/7 to help if a breach occurs.

In addition, Blackpanda successfully closed a $ USD Series A co-led by global leading private equity firms Primavera Venture Partners and Gaw Capital Partners.

What we are looking for:

Technology is at the heart of what Blackpanda does, and is looking for a Director of Product who thrives on being able to lead and develop a suite of products that work hand in hand with our service offerings.

Leading the Product pod within the Technology vertical, you will own Blackpanda's products throughout the respective lifecycles - from concept through discovery, development, release, and ongoing improvement. When you first come on board, there will be one significant project to lead from the ground up, with a secondary product currently in MVP stage to lead through respective new versions. From thereon, Product offerings will be initiated, led, and prioritized through your collaborative work with our Services, Insurance (our insurance arm Pandamatics Underwriting), and Sales verticals.

Blackpanda is venture-backed and is poised to win a major new space in the cyber risk, cyber security, and cyber insurance markets. You will be right in the middle of the action and have the remit to create incredible, forward-looking digital products for the APAC market, backed and supported by domain knowledge experts within the company.

Perhaps you are a senior engineer leading a team, looking to make the full-time switch to product with CPO aspirations? Or perhaps you have led the product side of a series of software initiatives in a different field and taking on a new challenge in cyber security excites you? Whilst you should have 3-5 years of senior experience already, we do not have a predetermined journey you should have walked to get here. Please get in touch if the above sounds like you!

About the role:

Cash: USD$105,000 annum. No bonuses or commissions.

Equity: ESOP grant size of USD$25,000 at current Fair Market Value. Strike price set at current Fair Market Value, with a 5-year vesting period inclusive of a 1-year cliff.

The successful candidate reports directly to the Chief Technology Officer. Within the Product vertical, you will have a Product Manager that reports to you, with scope for increasing your team through 2023.

Responsibilities and duties:

- Strategy & Product Roadmap - You will own the product roadmap that supports the company's overall product strategy and objectives; prioritize what to build and working closely with design and engineering to own the immediate roadmap, and work closely with the CTO to define medium and longer-term roadmaps.

- Customer, Market and Internal Research - You will perform qualitative and quantitative research to discover feature ideas and validate them before development, and perform quantitative analysis on features' performance and find opportunities for optimization. You will be an expert for our customers' needs, motivations, and challenges and develop customer empathy, representing the customer to our team. All whilst balancing the (sometimes competing) needs of internal and external stakeholders near and medium-term goals.

- Collaboration - You will collaborate across teams, working closely with UI/UX and engineering teams (internal and carefully selected vendors) to ensure an excellent user experience across our products, whilst ensuring features that move the needle are prioritized and contribute to making Blackpanda number one incident response and cyber risk firm in APAC.

- Delivery - You will ensure that the entire team (across design, product, and engineering) delivers on roadmap commitments reliably and consistently, supported by the OKR framework, setting and delivering on outcomes on a quarterly basis, and guiding your team through their responsibilities.

Qualifications and experience:

- You've delivered software as a Director or Senior Product Manager in a medium-sized (50+) organization, with the intuition and drive to succeed within a rapidly changing environment that may sometimes have competing interests across verticals. You will be the voice of reason to know which features should come when, why, and which resources are most needed to achieve this.

- You are passionate about digital products and the cyber security landscape - helping 'every company' in (J)APAC stay protected against cyber threats excites you.

- You have a bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of software product management experience. B2B SaaS product management and/or management consulting experience will be considered a plus, as will any previous professional software engineering experience within a company.

- You have a firm grasp of how to satisfy consumers' needs, and experience turning these needs into detailed specs and actionable user stories in a given project management tool like Shortcut, Jira, etc as well as ensuring all products are documented for end users (customers or internal teams) through wiki products such as Notion or dedicated mini-sites.

- You have strong soft skills and communicate effectively, and take pride in your ability to collaborate to achieve positive results. Presentations to senior stakeholders, especially C Suite members, will be a regular responsibility.

What we offer:

? This is a remote-first position. With our 'Work From Anywhere' policy, the successful candidate can work from anywhere globally subject to alignment with business and operational requirements, and be available for a minimum 6 hours between 9am and 6pm Singaporean time zone to sync with the Tribe.

? 40 days paid leave per year to also be used in lieu of all gazetted Singapore holidays at user choice. This is due to the global arrangement of personnel with different public holidays and the requirement of the company to be on standby as a crisis response unit 24/7/365.

? Work-life balance - no scheduled internal meetings on Fridays, unless absolutely necessary.

? Enrollment in the company corporate health plan (where available) or USD$100 per month allowance.

? Opportunities for travel, team onsite meet-up, and training opportunities.

Continuous learning:

Blackpanda will sponsor the cost of no less than one (1) training course each calendar topic of the training will be your choice, subject to approval by your manager, and will be no greater than USD$5,000 annually.

Declamation:

Blackpanda is committed to building a culturally diverse company, and we value a broad set of opinions in our team. As we grow, we are looking to build a team with a range of viewpoints at its core, and we encourage applications from all genders as you identify (X/F/M) and minority candidates.