Factored was conceived in Palo Alto, California by Andrew Ng and a team of highly experienced AI researchers, educators, and engineers to help address the significant shortage of qualified AI & Machine-Learning engineers globally. We know that exceptional technical aptitude, intelligence, communication skills, and passion are equally distributed around the world, and we are very committed to testing, vetting, and nurturing the most talented engineers for our program and on behalf of our clients.
We are searching for a highly experienced Head of Product to lead our product expertise made up of an elite group of multidisciplinary individuals working on a diverse range of products, applications and features as well as innovative in-house product development initiatives.
Functional Responsibilities:
- Own the management of the Factored product roadmap, driving internal alignment on projects/products, modifying based on changing needs and opportunities.
- Strategically evaluate our internal tooling to identify high-potential products, eliminate inefficiencies, and build solutions that drive operational excellence and set us apart.
- Identify and develop new external products that can serve as significant revenue streams or drive competitive advantages in existing offerings, potentially leveraging successful internal tools.
- Collaborate closely with our solutions team to successfully commercialize new products, expanding our offerings beyond staff augmentation to diverse solutions within our expertise.
- Collaborate with the Factored Analytics team, and provide dotted-line leadership to other internal projects driven by engineering.
- Deeply understand market needs through extensive discovery calls with clients to define product priorities and roadmaps, utilizing prototyping and user feedback to iterate quickly.
- Demonstrate strong decision-making abilities and a bias for action, ensuring rapid progress and effective execution.
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience (+5 years) as a Manager or Head, leading and building product development teams in fast-paced, dynamic startup environments.
- +8 years of experience working with AI technologies (GenAI, ML, DS, DE).
- Experience managing teams in dynamic, high-growth, innovative engineering environments with demonstrated leadership skills spanning project planning/execution, people management, best-practices processes, and technical excellence.
- Experience in a professional services company is preferred.
- Real-world experience building and optimizing distributed/remote product development teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely.
- Proven ability to manage, lead, and inspire teams to meet business objectives.
- Strong and solid product background in tech companies, building products from scratch, working closely with engineers.
- Excited about sharing your passion for staying abreast of technology trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, and participating in internal/external technology-focused communities.
- Must be able to think outside the box in implementing creative solutions to challenging business problems.
- A track record of good decision-making and the ability to move fast in a dynamic environment.
Nice To Have:
- Strong hands-on technical experience working with a wide range of state-of-the-art data engineering technologies.
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At Factored, we believe that passionate, smart people expect honesty and transparency, as well as the freedom to do the best work of their lives while learning and growing as much as possible. Great people enjoy working with other passionate, smart people, so we believe in hiring right, and are very selective about who joins our team. Once we hire you, we will invest in you and support your career and professional growth in many meaningful ways. We hire people who are supremely intelligent and talented, but we recognize that intelligence is not enough. Perhaps more importantly, we look for those who are also passionate about our mission and are honest, diligent, collaborative, kind to others, and fun to be around. Life is too short to work with people who don’t inspire you. We are a transparent workplace, where EVERYBODY has a voice in building OUR company, and where learning and growth are available to everyone based on their merits, not just on stamps on their resume. As impressive as some of the stamps on our resumes are, we recognize that human talent and passion exist everywhere, and come from many backgrounds, so stamps matter much less than results. All of us are dedicated doers and are highly energetic, focusing vehemently on execution because we know that the best learning happens by doing. We recognize that we are creating OUR COMPANY TOGETHER, which is not only a high-performing fast-growing business but is changing the way the world perceives the quality of technical talent in Latin America. We are fueled by the great positive impact we are making in the places where we do business and are committed to accelerating careers and investing in hundreds (and hopefully thousands) of highly talented data science engineers and data analysts. In short, our business is about people, so we hire the best people and invest as much as possible in making them fall in love with their work, their learning, and their mission. When not nerding out on data science, we love to make music together, play sports, play games, dance salsa, cook delicious food, brew the best coffee, throw the best parties, and generally have a great time with each other.