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Cadence OneFive° Handbook

Head of Product

The Head of Product shapes our product vision, strategy, and execution, building and maintaining the structures for healthy and rapid scaling of the product organization. This role owns the product roadmap, drives cross-functional collaboration, and ensures our products deliver maximum value to users while advancing our mission.

Our product is highly technical and domain-specific. Therefore, the Head of Product must have deep building science expertise, ideally with a Mechanical Engineering or Building Science background.

Succession: The Head of Product serves as interim CEO in the event of a vacancy in the CEO role.

Responsibilities

Section titled “Responsibilities”

Define product vision and strategy

Section titled “Define product vision and strategy”
  • Translate company mission and business objectives into compelling product vision and multi-year roadmap
  • Identify and prioritize product opportunities through market research, competitive analysis, and user insights
  • Make strategic product decisions that balance user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility
  • Champion the product vision across the organization and to external stakeholders

Build and scale the product organization

Section titled “Build and scale the product organization”
  • Establish product management practices, processes, and standards appropriate for our stage and culture
  • Build a strong, diverse product team through hiring, mentoring, and creating growth paths
  • Foster collaboration between product, engineering, design, and domain experts
  • Create frameworks for product decision-making that align with our horizontal culture
  • Develop product metrics and analytics infrastructure to measure success

Drive execution and delivery

Section titled “Drive execution and delivery”
  • Own the product roadmap and ensure the team ships high-impact features on a startup cadence
  • Work closely with engineering leadership to balance technical debt, platform investment, and feature delivery
  • Facilitate cross-functional alignment on priorities and trade-offs
  • Ensure the voice of the user is represented in all product decisions
  • Build feedback loops with customers to validate product direction

Lead domain-driven product development

Section titled “Lead domain-driven product development”
  • Apply deep building science expertise to inform product decisions and validate technical approaches
  • Bridge the gap between domain experts (mechanical engineers, building scientists) and engineering teams
  • Ensure product solutions are grounded in real-world retrofit workflows and industry requirements
  • Contribute domain expertise in product discovery, user research, and solution validation

Top 5 Competencies

Section titled “Top 5 Competencies”

This role combines Manager of One competencies with: