Head of Product Management, Business Solutions

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Upwork ($UPWK) is the world's largest freelancing website. Each year $1.7 billion of work happens through Upwork, allowing businesses to get more done and helping professionals break free of traditional time and place boundaries and work anytime, anywhere on projects they love. At Upwork, you'll help build on this momentum. Together, we'll create economic and social value on a global scale, providing a trusted online workplace for businesses to connect with extraordinary talent and work without limits. 

Upwork is the world's largest freelancing website. Each year $1.5 billion of work happens through Upwork, allowing businesses to get more done, and helping professionals break free of traditional time and place boundaries to work anytime, anywhere on projects they love. At Upwork, you'll help build on this momentum. Together, we'll create economic and social value on a global scale, providing a trusted online workplace for businesses to connect with extraordinary talent and work without limits.

Upwork’s Business Solutions team mission is to identify the barriers that impact account growth, and to partner with cross-functional teams to address and solve these barriers, in an attempt to enable growth. You will develop and build strong partnerships with teams across the organization, along with key stakeholders, in an effort to effectively solve for client needs across various business segments. 

Your Responsibilities:

  • You will lead two agile teams that focus on a) reporting/data capabilities and b) account growth.
  • As a team lead, you will have direct reports that look to you for ongoing coaching and mentorship.
  • Effectively identify barriers to scale and grow an account, and create an effective strategy that drives towards addressing these barriers. 
  • Manage a team of individuals who release product features that drive impact.
  • Drive to increase spend volumes across all segments of clients. 
  • Partner with Sales to ensure their quarterly and annual goals align with yours and launch features that achieve these goals. 

What it takes to catch our eye:

  • B2B experience
  • Experience leading a successful Product team
  • Ability to form strong relationships with key partners and cross-functional teams

How to really knock our socks off:

  • Have deep knowledge and understanding of Enterprise systems, and how they’re built.
  • Creative thinking and track record of delivering product experiences that serve client needs
  • Ability to understand and breakdown complex problems, and frame problems to create cross team alignment and effective solution ideation
  • Strategic and creative thinking that enables you to understand industry and customer trends and apply those insights to deliver business results

Come change how the world works.

At Upwork you’ll help shape the future of work. From our offices in San Francisco, Mountain View and Chicago, together we’re creating exciting new opportunities for a world of professionals. You’ll be part of a vibrant culture built on shared values: Inspire a boundless future of work, Put our community first, Have a bias towards action, and Build amazing teams. Along the way you’ll have fun and enjoy the perks of a people-first company: Work from Home Wednesday's, daily breakfast and lunch, regular in-office happy hours, top-notch benefits … and more. Check out Upwork’s spotlight on The Muse for a glimpse of our daily work/life balance.

Upwork is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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Our office is located in Chicago's West Loop. We are close to public transportation and restaurants galore.

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