Venture Chief Product Officer

2 months ago

Toronto, Canada Koru Full time

We are Koru.
Koru is a first of its kind venture studio funded by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. We partner with OTPP portfolio companies to build and invest in businesses with a clear right to win.
Founded in 2019, our mission is to drive value creation aimed at growing the overall value of OTPP’s portfolio companies by partnering with them to identify, validate, build and oversee new disruptive businesses. We go from 0-1, building ventures that address customer frictions head-on — and we leverage our corporate partnerships to gain unfair advantages in the market.
We offer a unique balance of risk and reward where startup talent can build with the backing of a $250B pension plan and the ability to impact portfolio companies all around the world, explore disruptive new opportunities and share in the upside of every business we put into the market. We promote a truly entrepreneurial mindset and a culture of fearless reinvention.
If you get excited by building innovative products that allow new entrants to disrupt existing industries, enjoy working in a collaborative and dynamic startup environment, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and have developed strong product leadership chops, then your place may be with us

**As Venture CPO, you will**:

- Build a strong venture team culture that emphasizes best-in-class product management and design practices
- Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent, environment where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued
- Define a product strategy and roadmap for the new ventures you build
- Effectively prioritize and define product features so that Engineering, Design, and others can collaboratively & efficiently build and execute
- Be scrappy We operate in small, cross functional venture teams; this means you’ll need to be able to jump between the strategic and the executional on a regular basis
- Gain a deep understanding of the industry you are operating in; you’ll need to be able to walk in the shoes of every stakeholder in any given value chain
- Champion agile practices that provide a foundation for iterative product development in response to key insights from customer validation
- Generate buy-in for the product strategy with stakeholders including the executive team, board members and investors
- Cross-pollinate good practices and insights between multiple ventures to drive continuous improvement of our product team at Koru

**You should have**:

- 7+ years of delivering successful and innovative products that customers love
- 5+ years hands-on leadership
- An ability to coach, mentor, enable and unblock others on the team to deliver great results
- An ability to work alongside Business Operations and Growth team members to develop GTM strategies for new business and products
- An ability to operate at various depths, for both strategically at the high level, as well as diving deep into execution mode as needed
- An orientation towards building for customer and businesses outcomes, not features
- An ability to make decisions in the face of a lot of ambiguity - you will need to go from 0-1
- An ability to establish and communicate research objectives, collect and analyze user behavior and leverage a number of research tools to extract the key insights needed to determine your product strategy (we spend a lot of time researching and validating before making investments and building ventures).
- Tech savviness, with experience working alongside dev teams building on different platforms & technologies, such as web and mobile apps, SaaS, big data and/or AI and ML powered platforms
- Real passion for understanding and solving customer frictions through simple and effective products and experiences
- An ability to embrace and reduce uncertainty through continual validated learning
- A data driven mindset. You know where to find the right insights to make an informed decision
- An ability to communicate your vision and effectively influence stakeholders, with the ability to know when to negotiate and make tradeoffs to get to the end goal

**It would be nice if you have**:

- Experience in building completely new products from 0-1
- Experience being the first product hire at a startup
- Experience in research, design or entrepreneurship

What happens next?
- Step 1: Introductory Interview w/ Hiring Lead (30 minutes)
- Step 2: Coach/Direct Manager (45 minutes)
- Step 3: Practical Challenge (60 minute presentation + ~3-4 hours preparation)
- Step 4: 2-3 2:1 Team Interviews (30-45 minutes each allowing you to meet different members of the team across various domains)
- Step 6: Offer

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Diversity of perspectives and experience is at the core of how we approach disruption and innovation. We believe in fostering an environment where team members of all backgrounds can feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work every day. We aim to ensure all of our employees work in an environment

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