hive.co - Head of Product

• A builder who manages builders. You’ve personally written PRDs, scoped trade-offs, and shipped product customers love — and you’ve trained other people to do the same. You know the difference between a PM who manages a backlog and a PM who shapes a product, and you can tell which one you’re hiring within thirty minutes. • AI-fluent and using it daily. You use AI to draft, synthesize, prototype, summarize research, and stress-test thinking and you expect your team to do the same. You have a point of view on where AI belongs in the product, in the workflow, and in the product org itself, and you’re actively shaping all three. • Operationally strong. You can design a roadmapping process, a launch checklist, a discovery cadence, and an OKR cycle from scratch — and you’ve done it before at a 50–250 person SaaS company. You know which rituals create real signal and which create theater. • Close to the customer, by reflex. You light up talking to users. You can recite real customer quotes from memory. You make sure every product decision starts with a specific person and a specific job to be done. • A multiplier for design and PMM. You’ve worked side-by-side with designers and product marketers as peers, not subordinates. You know how to make a small team punch above its weight by giving each discipline real ownership. • Passionate about the craft of PM. leadership is the role, but craft is the obsession. You still get a kick out of a sharp PRD, a clear user story, a well-framed problem, and a clever experiment. You’re always poking at how to do the work better and you stay current on what the best product teams in the world are shipping and how. • Principled before you’re busy. You don’t let the team start building until everyone can answer “why are we doing this?” Strategy, hypothesis, customer, and success metric come first. You can push back, kindly but firmly, when work start without a clear why. • Comfortable in a no-BS, mid-stage SaaS environment. We’re not pre-product-market-fit and we’re not post-IPO. Real customers, real revenue, real competition, real decisions every week. You move quickly, write clearly, and don’t need a 40-slide deck to make a call. • You’ve built or scaled a product operations function from scratch. • You’ve managed PMMs and shipped launches that moved the revenue line. • You’ve worked in event-tech, live entertainment, ticketing, marketing automation, or vertical SaaS for SMB/mid-market. • You’ve reported to a strong CTO or founder and know how to make that partnership work.