Vice President, Product na Rhythm Software, Inc.

VP of Product

Job Description

Overview & Background

Rhythm Software is a fast-growing SaaS company based in Atlanta, GA, delivering cutting-edge, disruptive software solutions to transform how associations and nonprofits serve their members. 

Our north star is simple: delight the customer in every interaction. As VP of Product, you will shape the future of Rhythm’s product strategy, leading a high-impact team responsible for defining and delivering solutions that drive meaningful value for our customers and competitive advantage for our business. Reporting to the CTO and serving on the senior leadership team, you will set the vision, scale product practices, and align cross-functional teams, customers, and the market around a clear and compelling roadmap.

Our technology empowers your delivery and learnings. With a state of the art serverless, microservices architecture, feature flags, high-coverage automated tests, and continuous deployment, we update our products many times per day, every day (Fridays included), with confidence. This agility gives the product management team an unparalleled opportunity to delight the customer.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Product Strategy and Vision

• Own and evolve the long-term product vision and strategy to support Rhythm’s growth, mission, and market leadership.
• Translate company-level objectives into actionable product strategies and roadmaps across the product portfolio.
• Identify and evaluate new product opportunities, ensuring alignment with customer needs, business goals, and competitive trends.
• Evangelize Rhythm’s product strategy internally and externally, including with customers, analysts, partners, and the broader market.

Leadership and Cross-functional Collaboration

• Lead and grow the product management organization, mentoring product managers and building a high-performing, customer-centric team.
• Serve as a core member of the senior leadership team, influencing company-wide decision-making with a product lens.
• Drive organizational alignment across engineering, design, marketing, sales, support, and customer success to ensure cohesive execution.
• Collaborate with design and engineering leadership to accelerate product development, navigate blockers, and ensure delivery of high-quality, high-impact features.

Execution and Operations

• Oversee Rhythm’s product planning processes, ensuring consistent delivery against quarterly and long-term roadmaps.
• Champion data-driven decision-making, leveraging customer research, product analytics, and industry insights to inform prioritization and investment.
• Build scalable systems to capture customer, competitor, and market feedback across the organization.
• Monitor product performance and drive continuous improvement across adoption, retention, satisfaction, and other key KPIs.

Customer and Market

• Cultivate a deep understanding of customer needs, jobs-to-be-done, and industry trends through ongoing and direct engagement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to strategic customers and a public face of Rhythm’s product philosophy at industry events and customer engagements.
• Ensure our solutions are differentiated, intuitive, and deliver measurable value to customers.

Qualifications & Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
• Demonstrated success building and scaling product teams and operations in a high-growth environment.
• Proven track record of translating business strategy into a product vision and driving consistent execution against it.
• Deep understanding of product lifecycle, market research, agile development, customer discovery, and go-to-market.
• Strong business acumen and technical fluency; ability to effectively communicate with both engineers and executives.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and collaboration skills; experience influencing at the C-level and across functions.
• Passion for interacting directly with customers and the broader market to  deliver products that make a real difference in their lives.
• Ability to balance customer needs with business objectives and drive solutions that meet both.

Is this job right for you?

You are the ideal candidate if:

• You’re a strategic thinker who thrives on transforming customer insights into innovative product solutions.
• You are energized by leading and mentoring product teams, empowering them to achieve their goals.
• You love partnering with engineering teams to deliver high-quality software that makes a real impact.
• You’re passionate about direct customer engagement and believe that the best products are born from a deep understanding of customer needs.
• You’re excited about owning the product roadmap and ensuring alignment with the company’s mission and business objectives.
• You have a natural ability to manage complex projects and enjoy the challenge of balancing competing priorities.
• You love the dynamic, fast-paced nature of startups, where every day presents new opportunities to innovate and lead.

Who Are We?

Rhythm is a small but rapidly growing startup company based in Atlanta, GA. We pride ourselves on leveraging serverless computing and a microservices architecture to deliver game-changing software to associations and nonprofits. Our north star remains constant: delight the customer.

Our product and engineering teams work hand-in-hand with customers to understand their needs deeply. We take that knowledge and develop software that not only solves problems but also creates joy in every interaction. As VP of Product, you’ll be at the heart of this process, ensuring we maintain our reputation for innovation and customer satisfaction.