VP of Product

Join Rent the Runway as the Vice President of Product, where you will lead the Product team for all of our subscription, one-time rental, and resale businesses. You will define the future of our offerings, create personalized experiences for our customers, and work closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and other stakeholders. This role requires both strategic leadership and hands-on execution, and you will be a member of the company's extended senior leadership team.

• Lead and develop a team of product managers to deliver products and features that reflect the company's obsession with customer experience.
• Define the future of Rent the Runway's offerings, leading the teams to create delightful, personalized, friction-free experiences for customers.
• Build cross-functional teams tasked with continuous product discovery and delivery, and cultivate a deep knowledge of the RTR customer.
• We are looking for a transformational Product leader with experience in platform thinking, creating strong partnerships, and who balances pragmatism with forward-thinking leadership. The right candidate will have a strong technical background coupled with good business sense, and will have knowledge of the latest AI technology to build the next generation of the RTR experience – from how customers discover, style, and rent items, to how we optimize our inventory, platform, and customer lifecycle
• You’re a relationship builder who engages well with stakeholders, understands their objectives and constraints and earns their trust
• You create vision and clarity from complexity and ambiguity. You are comfortable and energized by uncharted problems
• You enjoy getting technical. You’re comfortable working with engineers day-to-day and able to participate in technical discussions. You have basic knowledge of data structures, experiment design, and using self-service analytics tools (like Google Analytics or Looker) to make decisions
• You thrive in change. You are entrepreneurial in spirit with a passion for disruption
• You're a builder. You are excited about creating new products that deliver significant business impact
• You're analytical. You turn data into actionable insights
• You have 10+ years of product management experience, including leading teams and product organizations. Preferably in e-commerce, B2C subscription businesses, or another area leading a company in a new direction via its product(s)
• You’re both a high level strategic thinker and a roll-up-your-sleeves operator who does what it takes to get things done and deliver results
• You are a confident and influential communicator. From engineers to executives, you know how to talk and listen in remote & in-person environments. You’re skilled at bringing stakeholders along in your decision-making process and are adept at telling a story that supports your recommendations and inspires teams
• You’re constantly learning. You run experiments to validate assumptions and mitigate risks. You are flexible and able to change direction as you learn
• You are deeply familiar with AI-driven product experiences (search, recommendations, personalization, fit solutions)
• You have experience working in scrum/agile management methodologies