SVP, Product

Own Toptal’s AI product strategy: where agents and models belong across the marketplace, the talent and client experiences, our internal systems, and the products we take to market, along with the business outcomes they carry.

Decide what we build with AI and what we do not, including build-versus-buy on models and tooling and the packaging and pricing of AI-enabled products.

Make AI quality measurable through evals, acceptance bars, and review loops, and partner with Engineering on the platform as its most demanding customer.

Rebuild how Product works using AI, raising the output and judgment of every product manager through AI-assisted discovery, research, prototyping, and analysis. Product managers have to want this rather than comply with it, and creating that pull is on you.

Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the whole portfolio: what we build, what we sunset, and how investment is distributed across growth, platform, and operational leverage.

Establish the product operating model and the metrics behind it, so decisions are made on evidence and user research rather than opinion.

Own the product integration of acquisitions and new products, and act as a senior voice of the customer for both talent and clients.

Decide what a product team should look like now that the roles have blurred, where the product manager believes they can design and code, the engineer believes they can do product and design, and the designer believes they can code and do product.

Own resourcing and workforce planning, and hit time-sensitive hiring commitments.

Review the product work directly, develop people against a clear bar, and raise it as the organization grows.

Work to get up to speed with how the organization runs, including how our operational frameworks work.

Begin building relationships with the CEO, the executive team, and your direct reports.

Begin learning Toptal’s platform architecture, marketplace dynamics, internal tooling, and current AI initiatives and capabilities.

Assess the current state of the Product organization and its AI maturity: its people, its roadmap, its rituals, and where the gaps are, including the team against the bar this role requires.

Bring the executive team a product strategy no one asked you for.

Become acquainted with the full product portfolio, the company’s goals, and those you will partner with.

Establish a shared view with the CEO and the executive team of the company’s priorities and how product supports them.

Start collaborating closely with your product teams.

Own the product portfolio, its strategy, and its roadmap, and be executing your own plan with at least one AI-enabled capability already in production and measured.

Present your resourcing plan and a clear point of view to the executive team on where product investment should concentrate, what should be deprioritized, and why.

Establish or refine the product operating model: planning cadence, prioritization framework, and the metrics the organization will be held to, with the trust of the peers and teams you work with most closely.

Show business impact from AI-enabled products in at least two core surfaces, with the evidence behind it, and visible progress against the top portfolio priorities measured against the metrics you defined.

Have the right leadership team in place, with a clear plan to close any remaining gaps.

Be inspiring and mentoring the teams you work with, upleveling how the organization brainstorms, collaborates, and executes, and charting a clear path for scaling Product’s impact.

Run a product organization recognized inside and outside Toptal as one of the most advanced in the industry, with AI leverage embedded in the portfolio and the operating model rather than living in a set of pilots.

Have built an exceptional product team doing the best work of their careers, with a record of building impactful products in a timely and elegant fashion.

Deliver on your roadmap priorities and promises, with a demonstrable link between product investment and business results, and Product established as a trusted, high-leverage function that the rest of the company plans around.