VP, Product

Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments.Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. Learn more at later.com.VP, Product Management, Later InfluenceBoston, MA; Chicago, Illinois, United States; Los Angeles, California, United States; New York, New York, United States; Remote; San Francisco, California, United States; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Vancouver, Washington, United StatesLater is the world's most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing's most visible investments.Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data, including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases, Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don't just look good, they deliver results. Learn more at later.com.About this position:As VP of Product Management for Later Influence, our agency and brand-facing enterprise influencer marketing product, you'll shape and drive the strategy that helps brands and creators collaborate at scale with predictable, measurable business results. Later Influence combines AI, first-party data across campaigns, creators, and content, and workflow automation to deliver full-funnel campaigns from discovery to conversion. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer and leading Product Manager(s) directly, you'll build a high-impact product organization, shaping the roadmap and user experience while optimizing for growth, stickiness, and commercial impact. This is a pivotal, high-visibility role in scaling Later's creator economy proposition, with responsibility for transforming Later Influence into an AI-native Programmatic Influencer platform, and regular exposure to senior leadership.What you'll be doing:StrategyOwn the vision and strategy for Later Influence, connecting brands, creators, and commerce through AI, our proprietary data, and rich creator commerce signals.Become an expert in the end-to-end execution of influencer campaigns, driving improvements that streamline planning and strategy, campaign kickoff and setup, creator discovery and vetting, campaign workflow and content collaboration, payments management, and reporting and insights.Monitor, share, and translate insights from customer needs, creator economy news, social networks, commerce trends, and partnerships into a roadmap that drives measurable business outcomes, reduces human-in-the-loop hours to deliver a campaign, and improves the quality of the customer experience.Partner with the CPO, cross-functionally with Engineering, and across stakeholders in Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships to align product strategy with company objectives and targets.Define, monitor, and report progress toward key metrics that cascade throughout the product teams, including impacts to campaign delivery, creator earnings, and company revenue.Serve as the product champion for how Later Influence uniquely delivers value, including our creator network of 20M+ and 200k high-affinity creators and over $1.5B in GMV.Execution & Technical LeadershipLead end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation, discovery, and MVP through scaling and ongoing optimization, delivering solutions that help brands find, engage, pay, and measure creators and campaigns at scale.Deepen our AI capabilities and advance our product toward our AI Programmatic vision through strong partnership with our data and engineering teams.Build and manage strong product processes, leveraging tools such as Linear for product backlog and delivery and Domo (or similar) for analytics and monitoring.Prioritize features and investment based on expected outcomes and data, such as campaign performance, cohort-based churn, and revenue growth, while maintaining a consistent focus on ROI and product-market fit.Ensure the platform's UX, workflow, automation, and analytics match the enterprise expectations of brand marketers, including campaign workflow automation, message automation, creator application and review, and payments.Team & CollaborationBuild, lead, and mentor a high-performing product team (Product Managers, Product Ops, Design) focused on Later Influence, setting clear goals, career paths, and accountability.Collaborate closely with Marketing, Sales, Account Management, and our Creator Network team to ensure a cohesive go-to-market, onboarding, and renewals motion.Work closely with peer product, design, and research leaders, including the SVP of Product, Creator, to share best practices, ensure product synergy across the ecosystem, and avoid silos.Foster a culture of positivity, proactiveness, and ownership, ensuring the team is motivated, aligned, and accountable.Thought Leadership & Market InsightsStay ahead of influencer marketing, creator economy, social media platform, and commerce trends, including challenger insights, creator behaviors, and new social platforms.Translate market and competitor insight into product differentiation and speed-to-market advantages.Represent Later Influence externally, including with customers, analysts, partners, and PR, as the product leader who understands our value and can articulate it in the market.What success looks like:The platform makes meaningful progress toward Later's vision of a Programmatic Influencer Platform, becoming an increasingly differentiated enterprise offering.A clear, compelling roadmap is in place, with defined milestones showing improved customer outcomes and strong alignment with leadership stakeholders.Within the first 6-12 months, you've delivered measurable progress toward AI transformation of the program execution workflow and driven impact to primary product metrics.The product team operates with elevated velocity, demonstrable expertise and customer insight, credibility, predictable delivery, clear prioritization, and measurable impact.Internal stakeholders across Sales, Strategy, Marketing, Design, Research, Partnerships, and Customer Success experience a product organization that reliably plans and delivers value across the customer lifecycle, driving time and cost optimization and unlocking new, differentiated capabilities through Later's proprietary data and AI.What you bring:We are committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career. If you identify with any of the following, we encourage you to apply!10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS or platform-led businesses, including 5+ years in senior leadership owning full product lines.Proven track record scaling enterprise SaaS or marketplace-platform products, ideally in influencer marketing, creator economy, social, or commerce-adjacent AdTech/MarTech.Skilled at turning customer and market insights into product strategy and revenue growth; comfortable with metrics such as ARR/ACV growth, churn, LTV/CAC, and conversion funnel, and experienced with analytics and visualization tools to drive data-led decisions.Strong experience building and scaling product teams and processes in high-growth companies.Excellent cross-functional leadership skills, with a track record of working successfully with engineering, design, marketing, customer success, and sales in a fast-moving environment.Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to explain complex technical matters to business stakeholders and represent the product externally.Proactive, positive, growth-oriented leader who thrives in ambiguity and fast iteration in a scale-up environment.Demonstrable experience and experimentation with AI across the product management lifecycle, including vibe coding internal tools and customer-facing prototypes.How you work:**How we work:**We will do whatever it takes to win: We win when our customers and creators win. We bring full commitment to outcomes that matter, not just effort.We have no limit to our aspiration: We think big, push beyond what seems possible, and refuse to let conventional thinking set the ceiling.We are relentless: We keep going. Through ambiguity, setbacks, and competing priorities, we find a way forward.We deeply understand our business: If we don't have the knowledge, we figure it out. We take ownership of understanding how Later works and what drives results.We take our work seriously, but not ourselves: We bring rigor and accountability without ego, and we make space for each other to do our best work.Our approach to compensation:We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.Total Cash Compensation Range:US: $260-$320k#LI-RemoteWhere we work:We have offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; and Vancouver, WA. For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. We post our positions in the location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located. Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility:At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and building teams for culture add rather than culture fit. We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change.We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.