Chief Product Officer

About Feeld

Feeld is a dating platform designed for a community of authentic, open-minded individuals seeking connections that embrace their true selves. Founded by designers, Feeld transforms the "uncomfortable" into an elegant experience, creating a safe space to explore intimacy with thoughtful and artistic design. As societal norms evolve, Feeld leads by crafting frameworks that will shape the future of human connection.

Role Overview

We are seeking our inaugural Chief Product Officer to spearhead Feeld's product strategy and align technological delivery with our ambitious cultural goals. This pivotal role involves not only managing current products but envisioning future innovations aligned with the evolving needs of our diverse communities and society at large. The CPO will unify vision, strategy, and execution across Product, Design, and Data in close partnership with Engineering, fostering an intuitive, cohesive, and beloved product experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Envision and articulate a clear product perspective that forecasts major societal shifts affecting relationships and communities.
• Create and implement a multi-year product roadmap integrating brand, design, and technical initiatives.
• Transition the organization towards outcome-focused product development prioritizing meaningful user moments and retention.
• Simplify and streamline user experiences to reduce friction and enhance coherence across the platform.
• Build a consistent, direct connection to users through observation and qualitative insights to understand evolving needs.
• Emphasize deep discovery of pain points over feature ideation, identifying subtle user frustrations.
• Promote a user-first culture appreciating the emotional and practical realities of diverse populations including women, LGBTQ+ communities, and non-monogamous individuals.
• Translate deep user insights into prioritized, refined product and design solutions.
• Establish world-class standards for usability, visual appeal, and interaction quality.
• Collaborate closely with Design to maintain Feeld's distinct emotional and experiential identity within the category.
• Identify and resolve UX challenges that impede user satisfaction.
• Balance adoption of industry standards with visionary innovation to maintain distinctiveness.
• Lead prioritization and planning processes across Product, Design, Data, and Engineering to ensure operational alignment.
• Enhance delivery speed and confidence while safeguarding product quality, trust, and design excellence.
• Align cross-functional teams including Engineering, Marketing, and Leadership around product priorities and strategic objectives.
• Engage hands-on in product delivery to understand technical strengths and constraints.
• Evaluate execution effectiveness and guide teams toward high-impact activities.
• Embed trust, safety, privacy, and respectful interaction as core product principles.
• Implement ethical and thoughtful design approaches to address safety and integrity through systems thinking and continual iteration.
• Drive growth by improving user activation, engagement, and conversion through user-centered product enhancements.
• Craft monetization strategies that align with Feeld’s progressive values balancing business goals with long-term user relationships.
• Develop frameworks for responsibly integrating AI to enhance discovery, design, and delivery while safeguarding privacy and safety.

Objectives

• Create an emotionally resonant, seamless product experience bridging the gap between Feeld’s brand and everyday app use.
• Design features that support fluid relationship structures and evolving social norms to future-proof the platform.
• Improve engagement and retention measurably by addressing genuine user challenges.
• Institutionalize a unified product roadmap emphasizing member insights, outcome orientation, and design quality.

Company Culture and Benefits

Feeld is an independent remote-first company reshaping conversations around dating and sexuality. Founded in 2014, it fosters an agile, inclusive culture valuing autonomy, fluidity, safety, and transparency. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are core values, welcoming applicants from marginalized backgrounds and supporting a barrier-free application and work environment.

We offer flexible working hours, unlimited paid leave, home office and learning budgets, on-demand mental health support, and occasional in-person meet-ups. Our compensation approach is transparent, equitable, and competitive, with a baseline salary floor of £60,000 GBP per year, adjusted according to role seniority and geography.

Hiring Process

• Initial screening call with a recruiter to discuss role fit and questions.
• Follow-up interview with the hiring manager focusing on experience and work alignment.
• Candidate challenge to assess relevant skills, approximately one hour in duration.
• Team interviews to explore team dynamics, workflows, and employee experience.
• Offer typically extended within two weeks, with flexible start dates.
• All interviews are remote with flexible scheduling to accommodate availability.