Head of Product

The Opportunity:
Join the revolution transforming the $6T professional services industry at Collective OS, a venture-backed SaaS platform building the infrastructure for the future of work. As Head of Product, you'll drive the strategic evolution of a rapidly growing platform that connects companies with trusted external experts and partnered agencies in an increasingly decentralized world.
Collective OS is post-launch, with a validated product-market fit, experiencing rapid growth, and is positioned to scale dramatically. With full-time employees being replaced by agile teams of external specialists, and AI accelerating the shift to distributed collaboration, companies urgently need a system of record for discovering and managing high-trust vendor networks. You'll own this massive opportunity.
Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll lead the complete product lifecycle while working cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, and customer success. This builder role demands someone who can balance strategic vision with hands-on execution, thriving in ambiguity while scaling usage, deepening engagement, and launching new monetization layers.
As Collective OS grows, you'll evolve from hands-on product leader to head of the broader product function, building and managing the team that will define the future of professional services collaboration.

What You'll Do: Strategize, Execute, Scale 🚀

• Own the Complete Product Strategy: You will drive the entire product strategy and roadmap across the Collective OS platform, balancing immediate delivery with long-term vision while guiding the company through rapid growth. Your strategic thinking paired with hands-on execution will be essential as you collaborate with design and engineering to transform user insights into clear specifications, exceptional flows, and compelling experiences.
• Lead Discovery and Build Processes: You will uncover real user pain points through comprehensive research and discovery, establishing scalable delivery processes for planning, prioritization, QA, and release cycles. Your operational excellence ensures the team ships high-quality features consistently while maintaining startup speed and agility.
• Drive Business Impact: You will partner across the business to ensure product-market fit, successful launches, and strong adoption while working directly with the CEO to shape monetization strategies that drive revenue growth. Your ability to establish and track KPIs will optimize feature impact and inform continuous iteration.
• Scale the Product Function: As Collective OS grows, you will build and lead the broader product organization, recruiting and developing team members while evolving from hands-on product leader to head of a comprehensive product function.

What You've Done: Led, Built, Scaled 💡

• Product Leadership Excellence: You bring 6+ years of product management experience with 2+ years leading product teams in B2B, SaaS, or platform environments. Your track record demonstrates consistent ability to build and scale digital products while growing product-market fit and accelerating growth through network effects.
• User-Centric Development: You have hands-on experience conducting user interviews, building with design partners, and iterating rapidly in early product stages. Your mastery of Agile development, product discovery methodologies, and user research frameworks ensures you can balance strategic vision with tactical execution.
• Communication and Growth: You possess exceptional storytelling abilities, with proven success in aligning stakeholders around a shared vision, while thriving in high-growth, fast-moving environments where ambiguity and rapid adaptation are essential to success.

What Sets You Apart: Vision, Execution, Impact 🎯

• Data-Driven Product Instincts: Your strong product intuition is backed by a rigorous commitment to data analysis, experimentation, and continuous learning. You make informed decisions based on evidence while trusting experienced judgment when data is incomplete.
• Technical and Domain Expertise: Experience with analytics platforms, system architecture, AI-driven products, or professional services environments represents a significant advantage. Familiarity with LLMs, AI/ML implementation, social networking platforms, or data-centric tools would be highly valuable for Collective OS's technology-forward approach.
• Mission Alignment: Genuine enthusiasm for building tools that empower specialists and unlock new forms of collaborative work drives authentic product innovation and a deep understanding of how experts and agencies operate in distributed environments.

The Hiring Process: Join the Collective OS Revolution 🔑

• Stage 1 (Initial Connect): Begin with a focused 30-minute conversation facilitated by Pana Partners, Collective OS's trusted talent acquisition partner, to explore your product leadership background, discuss your experience scaling B2B platforms, and understand how this opportunity aligns with your career trajectory.
• Stage 2 (CEO Vision Alignment): Engage in an initial discussion with Jason Flack, CEO and Co-Founder, exploring your product philosophy, strategic thinking, and vision for scaling Collective OS's platform in the professional services market.
• Stage 3 (Product Strategy Deep Dive): Present your strategic approach through a comprehensive case study reflecting real-world challenges at Collective OS. Demonstrate your ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, and business objectives.
• Stage 4 (Final CEO Interview): Conduct an in-depth second conversation with Jason to explore your leadership style, execution approach, and cultural alignment with Collective OS's values and mission in greater depth.
• Stage 5 (Reference Validation): Upon mutual alignment, we'll conduct thorough reference checks with former colleagues, direct reports, and leadership partners to validate your track record of product success.
• Stage 6 (Offer and Onboarding): Receive a competitive compensation package including meaningful equity participation, followed by comprehensive onboarding to integrate seamlessly into the Collective OS mission.

What's In It For You: Shape the Future of Work 🌟

• Meaningful Equity Ownership 💎: Join as a true owner with significant equity participation designed to be life-changing as Collective OS scales. This isn't just stock options - it's ownership in a company positioned to transform a $6T industry with validated product-market fit and rapid growth trajectory.
• Competitive Base Compensation 💰: Receive a market-competitive salary that reflects your experience and the critical nature of this role, with the equity upside being the primary wealth-building opportunity as the company scales.
• Strategic Executive Impact 🚀: Report directly to the CEO with high-level influence over company direction and product strategy. Your decisions will directly shape how millions of professionals discover and collaborate with external experts in an increasingly distributed world.
• Remote-First Flexibility 🌴: Enjoy complete location independence with a distributed team that prioritizes results and impact over where or when you work. Build your ideal work environment while maintaining optimal work-life integration.
• Professional Growth Acceleration 📈: Operate in a high-growth environment with significant opportunities for skill expansion and career advancement as the company scales from post-product-market-fit to market leader. You'll evolve from hands-on product leader to head of a comprehensive product organization.
• Early-Stage Startup Benefits 🛡️: Access competitive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO policies, and the standard early-stage benefits package, with the understanding that equity ownership is the primary long-term incentive.
• Mission-Driven Culture 🎯: Work with smart, committed people solving meaningful problems in a culture that values customer obsession, rapid learning, candid feedback, outcome focus, and extreme ownership. Your work directly enables the future of distributed professional collaboration.
• Category-Defining Opportunity ⚡: Lead product strategy for a platform that will become the essential infrastructure connecting companies with global specialist networks. This is your chance to build something truly transformative in a massive, underserved market.

About Collective OS:
Collective OS is transforming the $6 trillion professional services industry by building the essential infrastructure for distributed work. As globalization and AI accelerate the shift toward external experts and partnered agencies, companies need sophisticated systems to discover, manage, and collaborate with trusted service providers.
Currently, millions of firms depend on external partnerships, yet no comprehensive system exists for managing these critical vendor networks. Collective OS is creating the definitive platform for the future of partnership-based work, providing the tools and intelligence companies need to thrive in an increasingly distributed world.
With strong product-market fit validation and rapid growth momentum, Collective OS is positioned to become the essential platform connecting companies with the global network of specialists who will define the future of professional services.
How They Work:
Collective OS is looking for someone who leads with humility, brings others along for the ride, and is energized by solving hard problems with smart people. They value:
Customer obsession: building with and for real peopleSpeed over perfection: shipping fast and learning fasterThoughtful candor: honest feedback in service of a better productNo egos, just outcomes: everyone contributes, everyone leadsExtreme ownership: take responsibility, follow through, and raise the bar for each other with a bias for action
Collective OS believes in building an inclusive workplace and is committed to assembling a team from diverse backgrounds. We ensure that individuals with disabilities receive reasonable accommodation throughout the application and interview process. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented candidates and those from nontraditional backgrounds.