Chief Product Officer

The Chief Product Officer will be the executive accountable for turning DVORA’s product vision into a live, reliable, adopted, and commercially ready platform.

This is not a blank-page product strategy role. You will inherit a substantial body of product requirements, workflows, designs, architecture decisions, and operating rules. Your responsibility is to understand the product deeply, make it your own, and ensure that what is ultimately built matches the intended vision and business outcome.

The platform will be developed primarily by a selected external software development vendor. The CPO will serve as DVORA’s executive product owner and the principal leader of that development relationship.

You’ll be a hands‑on, practical user of AI. We expect you to apply it across the full product lifecycle — analysis, specification, development, testing, documentation, and program management — to raise both the speed and the quality of delivery, while bringing disciplined human judgment to validation, security, and governance.

Beyond how you work, this role helps decide where AI, automation, and agentic capabilities belong inside the DVORA platform itself. That means telling the difference between AI features that are genuinely reliable and valuable to customers and those that are technically impressive but don’t hold up in production.

You will serve as the primary bridge among:

• DVORA’s founders and internal vision holders.
• The external software development vendor responsible for building the platform.
• Architecture, implementation, security, and DevOps partners.
• DVORA’s first customer, which currently operates an earlier generation of the product and will serve as the initial implementation and product‑validation environment.

During development, the vendor will raise questions, identify ambiguities, recommend technical alternatives, and encounter gaps that were not visible during specification. You will own the process for resolving those issues.

You will determine which decisions can be made within the approved product vision, scope, budget, and architecture, and which material decisions must return to the appropriate founder or vision owner. You will document each decision, assess its impact across the platform, communicate clear direction to the vendor, and keep the program moving.

Your accountability will extend beyond software development. You will own the product outcome through quality assurance, security, DevOps and production readiness, implementation, migration, customer adoption, product‑market validation, and go‑to‑market enablement.

You will own these outcomes while leading and coordinating the internal stakeholders, development vendor, implementation resources, technical specialists, and other partners responsible for execution.

What You Will Do

• Own the product vision and its execution. Adopt DVORA’s existing requirements and develop a deep understanding of the platform and ensure that the final product reflects the intent of DVORA’s founders and vision holders.
• Resolve gaps and translate vision into buildable decisions. Identify unclear, conflicting, or missing requirements; work with the appropriate internal decision‑makers; and provide the vendor with timely, documented direction that considers the impact across the platform.
• Lead the software development vendor. Manage the vendor from final selection and mobilization through active development, including scope, priorities, dependencies, change requests, risks, trade‑offs, product reviews, milestone reviews, and executive reporting.
• Own product quality and technical readiness. Hold the vendor accountable for delivering fully tested, secure, documented, deployable software that works across complete end‑to‑end workflows—not merely in demonstrations. Ensure that defects, technical debt, temporary workarounds, and deferred scope remain visible.
• Oversee architecture, DevOps, and production readiness. Work with engineering and technical partners to protect domain and service boundaries, APIs and events, IAM/RBAC, financial‑ledger separation, environment separation, security, integrations, scalability, and maintainability. Ensure that DVORA controls its repositories, cloud environments, credentials, deployment processes, documentation, and operational data.
• Lead implementation with the first customer. Manage configuration, migration from the existing product version, integrations, operational testing, training, cutover, go‑live, early production support, and stabilization. Confirm that the platform works under real operating conditions and meaningfully replaces fragmented processes.
• Drive adoption and enable go‑to‑market. Represent residents, property teams, technicians, leasing, accounting, providers, and leadership throughout development. Use the first implementation to validate product‑market fit, demonstrate measurable value, improve onboarding, support product positioning and sales enablement, and create a repeatable path for future customers.

Who You Are

• A true owner. You take personal responsibility for the product and its outcome. You stay with a problem until there is a clear decision, accountable owner, executable plan, and verified result.
• A hands‑on product builder. You can protect a long‑term vision while working through detailed requirements, vendor questions, implementation constraints, defects, testing, release decisions, and customer adoption.
• A bridge between vision and development. You understand the intent behind a founder’s vision and translate it into clear, buildable direction. You know which decisions you can make independently and when a material issue must return to the vision owner.
• An AI‑enabled product leader. You use AI actively to analyze requirements, identify gaps and conflicts, develop specifications, manage roadmaps, accelerate testing, and improve decision‑making. You also understand how AI‑enabled and agentic products are designed, evaluated, secured, and operated—including data quality, model limitations, human oversight, testing, privacy, and production reliability.
• Technically fluent. You can engage meaningfully with software architects and engineering leaders, challenge weak assumptions and shortcuts, and understand how architecture, APIs, permissions, security, integrations, DevOps, and technical debt affect the product.
• Commercially and operationally focused. You understand that successful delivery is not simply shipping software. The product must solve real operating problems, produce measurable customer value, support a repeatable implementation model, and be ready to sell and scale.
• Decisive, clear, and resilient. You communicate effectively with founders, executives, customers, engineers, and vendors. You remain composed under pressure, separate critical issues from background noise, and keep complex workstreams aligned.

What You Will Bring

• 12+ years of product management, product delivery, or technology leadership experience.
• A record of taking a complex software platform from requirements through development, implementation, launch, and adoption.
• Direct experience managing external, distributed, or offshore development vendors and milestone‑based delivery.
• Strong product operations experience, including requirements, backlog management, acceptance criteria, testing, change control, and release readiness.
• Experience implementing software for a live customer, including migration, integrations, training, cutover, and stabilization.
• Working knowledge of multi‑tenant SaaS architecture, APIs, event‑driven systems, IAM/RBAC, security, DevOps, cloud delivery, and financially sensitive workflows.
• Meaningful experience using AI in product management and evaluating AI‑assisted development or AI‑enabled product capabilities.
• Strong commercial judgment, executive communication, and analytical decision‑making skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, master’s degree, or another relevant advanced degree.
• Experience in PropTech, fintech, property management software, marketplaces, or multi‑tenant SaaS.
• Experience with billing, payments, ledgers, reconciliation, or audit‑sensitive financial workflows.
• Experience integrating with platforms such as Yardi, AppFolio, Stripe, Twilio, or similar enterprise systems.
• Experience leading a software RFP, competitive vendor‑bid process, or major outsourced development program.
• Experience replacing or migrating an earlier software platform while maintaining business continuity.
• A record of bringing a B2B or B2B2C platform to product‑market fit and supporting its commercial launch.

Why Join DVORA

As Chief Product Officer, you’ll have direct influence over how it’s built, how it performs, and how it reaches the market while working closely with DVORA’s founders, the product’s vision holders, our development partner, and our first customer to turn a fully‑formed vision into a live, scalable business. You’ll carry full ownership of that outcome, from development through adoption and go‑to‑market, with the chance to help build property management’s defining platform using the most modern product design, AI‑enabled development, and technology available.