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    VP, Self-Serve

    Deepgram
    San Francisco, CAUSA | Remote
    Remote
    Director
    Full Time
    1 day ago
    VPSelf-ServeProduct-Led GrowthPLGVoice AIB2B SaaSLeadershipProduct Management

    Requirements

    • 8+ years of experience in product management, growth, or related roles with at least 3+ years in leadership positions
    • Proven track record of driving PLG growth in B2B SaaS, ideally in developer-focused or API-first products
    • Deep expertise across the full PLG funnel—from acquisition and activation through monetization and expansion
    • Strong analytical capabilities including SQL, experimentation design, and statistical analysis
    • Experience building and leading analytics teams or functions, with ability to define analytics strategy and infrastructure
    • Experience building and leading high-performing teams, with demonstrated ability to coach and develop talent
    • Track record of successful cross-functional leadership and executive stakeholder management
    • Comfort operating in high-growth, rapidly changing environments with ambiguous problems
    • Experience with products serving highly technical personas (developers, data scientists, engineers)
    • Understanding of API products, developer tools, and technical documentation
    • Familiarity with modern PLG tools and infrastructure (analytics platforms, experimentation frameworks, activation flows)
    • Strong command of product analytics platforms, data warehousing, and business intelligence tools
    • Ability to bridge business strategy and technical execution, translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders
    • Knowledge of SaaS pricing models, especially usage-based and credit-based approaches
    • Strategic thinker who can also roll up sleeves and execute hands-on when needed
    • Data-driven decision maker who balances quantitative insights with qualitative customer understanding
    • Strong communicator who can influence without authority and build consensus across diverse stakeholders
    • Bias toward action and experimentation with comfort in ambiguity and rapid iteration
    • Natural curiosity and learning orientation; stays current on industry trends and best practices
    • High integrity and ownership mentality—treats company goals as personal commitments

    What You'll Do

    • Own and deliver growth in self-serve revenue, contributing significantly to Deepgram's ARR targets
    • Drive conversion rate of self-serve-led logos into enterprise contracts, working closely with Sales leadership
    • Define, track, and optimize the full-funnel metrics that matter—from acquisition through activation, engagement, monetization, and expansion
    • Establish quarterly and annual targets for self-serve growth and hold cross-functional teams accountable to shared KPIs
    • Develop and execute a comprehensive PLG strategy across Deepgram's three product lines (STT, TTS, Voice Agents)
    • Design and optimize user journeys from website to signup to activation to usage to monetization, eliminating friction at each stage
    • Build a high-velocity experimentation engine connecting hypothesis generation, execution, measurement, and learning
    • Translate insights from data, user research, and market trends into actionable growth initiatives
    • Build and lead the Self-Serve team, including Senior Growth Product Manager and Product Analyst functions
    • Lead and expand the Product Analyst function, ensuring analytics capabilities support self-serve initiatives and broader company needs
    • Provide strategic direction, coaching, and mentorship to develop world-class PLG and analytics talent
    • Foster a culture of data-driven decision making, customer empathy, and rapid iteration
    • Partner with VP of Product on broader product strategy and organizational development
    • Serve as the primary driver of alignment across Marketing, Product, Sales, Engineering, and Data teams for self-serve initiatives
    • Lead regular cross-functional meetings, OKR planning, and strategic reviews with executive leadership
    • Build trust and collaboration across departments, ensuring self-serve is treated as a shared company priority
    • Influence roadmaps and resource allocation across teams to support PLG objectives
    • Establish robust product analytics infrastructure unified across the entire user journey
    • Lead the Product Analyst function to ensure proper instrumentation, tracking, and reporting for all self-serve touchpoints and company-wide product analytics needs
    • Build dashboards and reporting systems that provide real-time visibility into funnel health and experiment performance
    • Drive adoption of analytics best practices across Product and Growth teams
    • Ensure analytics capabilities scale to support both tactical experimentation and strategic decision-making
    • Maintain deep understanding of developer personas, workflows, and decision-making processes across Deepgram's ICPs
    • Conduct and synthesize user research, competitive analysis, and market intelligence to inform strategy
    • Ensure voice of customer is embedded in every aspect of self-serve experience design
    • Stay current on PLG best practices and emerging trends in developer-focused B2B SaaS

    Benefits

    • Medical, dental, vision benefits
    • Annual wellness stipend
    • Mental health support
    • Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
    • Unlimited PTO
    • Generous paid parental leave
    • Flexible schedule
    • 12 Paid US company holidays
    • Quarterly personal productivity stipend
    • One-time stipend for home office upgrades
    • 401(k) plan with company match
    • Tax Savings Programs
    • Learning / Education stipend
    • Participation in talks and conferences
    • Employee Resource Groups
    • AI enablement workshops / sessions

    About Deepgram

    Deepgram specializes in providing AI-powered speech-to-text technology that offers audio intelligence, text-to-speech, and voice agent API.

    San Francisco, CA
    100 - 250
    AI & Machine Learning