From the listing
About the role
Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members based around the globe, Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce.
As SVP, Product, you will shape the vision for Toptal’s products and platforms and drive the execution to build them. This is the most senior product role in the company, reporting to the CEO and sitting on the executive team. You will lead an AI-native product organization where AI is the roadmap, not just a line item.
This is a hands-on role requiring you to write your own specs, pull your own data, and build rough versions of agents. You will own the core platform, talent and client experiences, internal systems, and the data and AI platform underneath them.
What you'll do
- Own Toptal’s AI product strategy, including where agents and models belong across the marketplace and internal systems.
- Decide on build-versus-buy for models and tooling, as well as packaging and pricing of AI-enabled products.
- Rebuild how Product works using AI-assisted discovery, research, prototyping, and analysis.
- Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the entire portfolio, including growth, platform, and operational leverage.
- Establish the product operating model and metrics based on evidence and user research.
- Own the product integration of acquisitions and new products.
- Define product team structures and own resourcing and workforce planning to hit hiring commitments.
- Review product work directly and set a high bar for hiring and development.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Engineering, CS, IS).
- At least 15 years of proven software Product Management experience.
- At least 8 years of experience leading Product organizations, including managing other managers.
- Proven ownership of resourcing, workforce planning, and high-bar hiring.
- Deep, hands-on command of modern AI: agentic architectures, orchestration design, retrieval, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
- Growth marketing fluency including acquisition, activation, conversion, and retention.
- Proficiency in SQL or spreadsheets for data analysis.
- Experience using agile development methodologies with globally distributed teams.
- Meticulous quality standards for writing user stories and testing features.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree.
- Experience with marketplace, platform, or two-sided business models.
- Prior experience working as a Software Engineer.
From the company page
Toptal benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“Work wherever, on your terms. Being a fully-remote workforce means that all you need is wifi and a laptop. You can work from home, your favorite cafe, or even a charming villa halfway around the world.”
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The hot takeJeff's read on Toptal
Toptal has one of my favorite (and clear) remote work policies:
Work Remotely
Work wherever, on your terms. Being a fully-remote workforce means that all you need is wifi and a laptop. You can work from home, your favorite cafe, or even a charming villa halfway around the world.
I would love to see a little more information about the perks and benefits Toptal offers its employees.
Note: They do NOT appear to be a Hire From Anywhere (HFA) company. You likely need to be eligible to apply for certain positions.