Head of Product

Job Description

Chariot is at an inflection point: three product lines (DAFpay, Gift Processing, Disbursements), $1.8B+ in annualized payment volume, and a product function that has been founder-led to date.

You'll own the product function at the highest level: the company-visible roadmap, prioritization across surfaces, product analytics, process, and team structure. You'll build the roadmapping and metrics discipline the company runs on — and grow and lead the PM team.

This is not a pure leadership perch. Like everyone at Chariot, you stay hands-on: close to customers, close to the product, personally owning the most important problem statements while operating above the individual product areas and making everything fit together cohesively.

• Work with co-founders to clarify, execute, and measure progress towards product strategy and vision

  • Decide where product should head and ensure every surface's work adds up to one coherent story

• Stand up the roadmapping function

  • A living, company-visible roadmap; monthly cycle planning; GTM, ops, and partnerships learn about launches months before ship

• Define product metrics & forecasting

  • Every problem statement has metrics the team drives toward; forecasts exist and are trusted

• Personally own top-level problem statements

  • Stay in the work: scope, spec, and ship alongside the team

• Make the PM team successful

  • The PMs reporting to you solve the right problems and deliver; you raise PM-to-eng leverage toward 1 PM : 2 engineers

About You

Must Haves

• 12+ years in product

• You've led and grown product teams, as a product leader or founder, and scaled a company from Series A to Series D or beyond (or equivalent: grew through hypergrowth, e.g. 30 → 300 people)

• You come from an excellent company with a genuinely high product bar

• Still an operator: you can personally scope, spec, and ship

• Highly organized and detail-oriented: you bring the structure and process a fast-moving team needs, without ceremony

• Technically credible: you understand what it takes to build things and can hold your own with strong engineers

• NYC (in office Monday-Thursday)

Nice to Haves

• Fintech / payments / money-movement product experience

• Familiarity with the nonprofit sector or philanthropy

What you’ll get from Chariot

At Chariot, we are building modern, end-to-end payment infrastructure making donors' lives easier, and nonprofits' lives better. $600B gets donated to charity each year in the US and the existing technology/infrastructure was still built for our grandparents generation. Chariot is here to change that.

• Traction. Annualizing over $1.8B in payment volume through Chariot. Tens of thousands of nonprofits already onboarded including American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and University of Pennsylvania.

• Impact: That money services nonprofits working in homelessness, health, education, the environment, and so much more.

• Market opportunity: Billion dollar revenue opportunity. Fintech company operating in an untapped $600B market

• The Team. >30% of Charioteers are former founders. NYC office, in-person Monday through Thursday, WFH Friday. The public handbook shows how we operate.

❤️ Employee Benefits

• Healthcare: Comprehensive healthcare, including options that are 100% covered by Chariot for you

• Time-Off: 18 days PTO and 13 holidays - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge

• Parental Leave: 100% paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for primary caregivers

• ️ Team Lunches: Weekly team lunches

• Dinner on Chariot: Free dinner every day at office past 8pm

• Team Events: Monthly team building events

• Employee-friendly equity: 2 year exercise window and double-trigger acceleration

• Company Retreats: To get away - we all convene 2-3x / year company retreats

• Matching Gifts: Matching DAFs and daily charitable giving through GoodToday