[Remote] Product Operations and Performance Lead

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization, empowering clients by tokenizing sensitive payment data. They are seeking a founding Product Operations Lead to define and own the operational backbone of the Product organization, ensuring high-quality execution and alignment across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain systems and processes to track product performance
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Client Operations, and Sales to set targets and prioritize action plans to achieve them
• Own and evolve the operating system used by Product to plan, track, and communicate work, including roadmaps, planning artifacts, and execution tracking (in close partnership with Engineering)
• Design and run lightweight operating cadences (e.g., planning cycles, product reviews, execution check-ins)
• Improve visibility into priorities, progress, and decisions across the product organization without adding unnecessary process
• Define and own the PM tool stack, evolving the tools and workflows that PMs use every day to ensure the function is operating effectively
• Identify where automation, AI/agents, and other new workflows can materially change how product ideas are surfaced and translate those ideas into adopted capabilities
• Build systems that capture and share high-quality product work (e.g., great PRDs) and decisions across teams, helping raise the bar and accelerate learning
• Own and improve core product development processes, tooling, and team rituals (planning cycles, monthly reviews, roadmap prioritization, etc.)
• Drive cross-functional alignment between Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success
• Facilitate roadmap planning by coordinating stakeholder inputs and maintaining transparency across the org
• Design and run Early Access Programs and alpha testing programs that validate product-market fit and surface refinement signals before broad release
• Own launch coordination end-to-end — ensuring timely, high-confidence rollouts with clear success metrics and post-launch monitoring
• Maintain cross-team roadmap visibility that keeps clients, delivery teams, and leadership aligned on what's shipping and why

Skills

• 8+ years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management (within a Product organization), or a similar role
• Experience in fast-moving, product-led organizations with an emphasis on minimum necessary process
• Strong systems thinker who can design operating models that scale without adding bureaucracy
• Proven scrappy executor who takes ownership and gets things done
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building from a blank page
• Clear, concise communicator with strong written and verbal skills
• Strong product instincts and empathy for Product Managers and cross-functional partners
• Prior payments experience and the curiosity to build a deep understanding of VGS's products

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
• Competitive health benefits
• VGS stock options
• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
• Life & disability insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
• Global parental leave program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Home Internet reimbursement
• New hire home office set-up allowance
• Professional learning reimbursement
• Remote-first philosophy
• Hybrid schedule with some in-person time if living within 30 miles of one of our office locations

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