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R-001HumanBusinessP0 · CriticalFilled
Chief Product Officer
Owns the product strategy — what we build, what we don't, and how the roadmap ladders into the company's bets. The single point of accountability that ties customer signal to engineering output.
IdeaDesignGrowth
Due-diligence relevance
Acquirers test whether the CPO can describe the AI moat in five minutes and whether their roadmap survives a tough question. A vague or roadmap-by-feature-list CPO presentation visibly lowers the offer.
Responsibilities
- Set quarterly product priorities and the underlying bets
- Own the product roadmap and its trade-offs in front of the board
- Hire, develop, and retain product managers and designers
- Translate strategic-acquirer / investor signal into roadmap implications
- Final escalation on cross-functional product disputes
Inputs
- · CEO strategy
- · Customer signal
- · Engineering capacity
- · Market intelligence
Outputs
- · Quarterly roadmap
- · Product OKRs
- · Board product update
Qualifications
- 10+ years building consumer or AI products
- Direct experience scaling a product through Series A/B
- Strong writer; can defend a roadmap in a single page
- Comfortable saying no to revenue requests that conflict with strategy
KPIs
Roadmap-to-shipped ratioProduct NPSTime from spec to ship