Chief Product Officer

About Feeld

Feeld is a dating platform designed to foster a genuine and inclusive community for individuals embracing their authentic selves. Founded by designers, the company believes in transforming discomfort into beauty through thoughtful and elegant design, offering a nurturing space for exploring human intimacy with artistry. As social norms evolve, Feeld remains at the forefront, crafting innovative frameworks that shape the future of human connection.

Role Overview

As Feeld's inaugural Chief Product Officer, you will spearhead the product vision and development to align with the brand’s significant cultural goals. This pivotal leadership position entails not only managing the current offerings but also anticipating the evolving needs of diverse communities over the coming decade. You will harmonize vision, strategy, and delivery across Product, Design, and Data, in close collaboration with Engineering, to create an intuitive and beloved product.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a forward-looking product vision reflecting shifts in relationships, intimacy, and communities.
• Develop and execute a unified, multi-year roadmap integrating brand, design, and technology initiatives.
• Transition the organization toward outcome-focused product development that enhances meaningful user engagement and retention.
• Simplify and unify user experiences to reduce friction and improve cohesion across the product journey.
• Engage directly with users through observation and research to deeply understand their evolving needs and pain points.
• Cultivate a user-centric culture emphasizing emotional and functional awareness, especially for women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and non-monogamous users.
• Translate rich user insights into prioritized, elegant product and design solutions ready for implementation.
• Maintain exceptional standards of usability, visual appeal, and interaction quality.
• Collaborate closely with Design to keep Feeld visually and experientially unique within the dating category.
• Identify and resolve persistent user experience obstacles to maximize member satisfaction.
• Balance following industry norms with innovative differentiation where Feeld must lead.
• Lead prioritization, planning, and decision-making across teams to ensure alignment and deliverables.
• Enhance development speed and confidence without compromising product quality, user trust, or design excellence.
• Ensure cross-functional consensus regarding product priorities and strategic rationale among Engineering, Marketing, and Leadership.
• Directly involve yourself in product and delivery processes to understand technical strengths and constraints.
• Evaluate and refine execution effectiveness with Product and Design leadership, focusing efforts on highest impact tasks.
• Embed trust, safety, privacy, and respectful interaction as fundamental product elements, integrating ethical and safety considerations into design and iteration.
• Improve user activation, engagement, and conversion via product features that genuinely address member needs.
• Develop monetization strategies that reflect both business goals and Feeld’s progressive brand values.
• Create a clear, responsible framework for utilizing AI to accelerate product innovation while safeguarding member privacy and safety.

Objectives

• Deliver an intuitive and emotionally resonant product experience that aligns the brand with day-to-day use.
• Prepare the app to serve future populations with features accommodating fluid relationship structures and evolving social norms.
• Ensure measurable, long-term gains in user engagement and retention by solving authentic community challenges.
• Institutionalize a unified product roadmap promoting member observation, outcome focus, and high-quality design culture.

Company Culture

Feeld is a fully remote, independent organization founded in 2014, with an agile and fluid work culture emphasizing autonomy and continuous internal improvement. The team values humanity, inclusivity, transparency, and progressive ideals, fostering a safe and connected remote work environment. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are central principles, openly welcoming individuals from historically marginalized groups.

Compensation and Benefits

• Flexible working hours with unlimited paid time off.
• Remote work with a home office allowance.
• Learning and development budget.
• Access to on-demand mental health support and therapy.
• Opportunities for in-person meetups.
• Equitable, transparent compensation system with a baseline salary of £60,000 GBP for roles indexing below that level.
• Competitive, tailored packages for senior roles reflecting geographic diversity.

Recruitment Process

• Initial screening call with a recruiter to clarify role fit and answer general queries.
• Discussion with the hiring manager reviewing past experience and role expectations.
• Completion of a relevant skills assessment challenge (~1 hour).
• Team interviews to explore workflows, culture, and daily operations.
• Offers made typically within two weeks with flexible start dates.
• Entire process conducted remotely with flexible scheduling.