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Get Access To All JobsAbout Rocket Lawyer
We believe everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services. Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America, South America, and Europe, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 30 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered. We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding our team to take on this challenge!
About Your Role
The Senior Vice President of Product is the strategic and operational leader responsible for defining our product vision, accelerating market adoption, and delivering exceptional business performance. This role will help drive the transition of our trusted legacy platform to our next-generation AI experiences, ensuring a modern, intuitive UX for our entire ecosystem - from the SMBs and families Rocket Lawyer serves to the legal professionals who support them. The ideal candidate possesses deep experience in PLG, and subscription-based / marketplace business models across both consumer and SMB markets. The candidate must have a proven ability to leverage customer insights to create compelling experiences that accelerate user acquisition, upsell, and long-term retention. This leader will be instrumental in bringing clarity, cohesion, and disciplined execution to a fast-moving, cross-functional organization.
How You Will Make a Difference Day To Day
Strategic Vision & Execution:
- Define, articulate, and relentlessly champion an ambitious, long-term product strategy.
- Leverage the Product Operating Model to deliver a product roadmap focused on innovative, AI-led experiences that drive value across the entire product lifecycle while simultaneously optimizing the current platform.
- Lead the harmonization of legacy platform features and new AI-driven products into a single, intuitive, customer experience.
- Build partner facing solutions that support new member acquisition.
- Cultivate an innovative product culture that skillfully balances speed, agility, and disciplined prioritization.
Growth & Business Performance:
- Own the Product-Led Growth (PLG) experiences designed to engage, upsell, and retain all customer segments.
- Own product-driven revenue drivers, including activation, engagement, conversion and retention.
- Partner closely with Growth, Operations, and Finance on pricing, packaging, and go-to-market strategies to maximize new member growth, retention, and Customer Lifetime Value (LTV).
- Instill a culture of operational rigor for roadmap planning and delivery (focusing on speed, consistency, quality, and customer-informed decisions). Own scoping and resource planning.
- Oversee product migrations, transitions, and adoption strategies to minimize friction and maximize customer value realization.
Leadership & Customer Focus:
- Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing Product organization, including Product Managers, Design, and Product Operations.
- Create strong alignment across Product, Engineering, Data, Growth, and Operations to ensure coordinated, high-velocity execution.
- Serve as a senior executive voice across the company, influencing strategy and effectively representing the product direction to internal and external stakeholders.
- Direct qualitative and quantitative UX research and customer surveys to ground all product experience decisions in a deep understanding of customer needs, barriers, and motivations.
What You’ll Need
- 15+ years of progressive product management experience, including 8+ years in executive leadership roles, with at least 5 years leading product teams through large-scale transformation.
- Demonstrated success in driving strategy, adoption, and performance within high-growth, subscription-based businesses (Consumer and SMB).
- Proven track record of delivering measurable, material growth in customer acquisition, expansion, and retention.
- Extensive experience managing product portfolios that include both established, legacy systems and new platform innovations.
- Strong understanding of AI-enabled products, data-driven decision-making, and modern product development practices.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management abilities at the executive level.
- Deep business acumen with the ability to connect customer needs, product capabilities, and financial outcomes.
A plus if you have
- Experience in legal tech, fintech, SaaS, or other highly regulated or trust-driven industries.
- Experience building marketplace product experiences.
- Extensive background operating in a Product-Led Growth (PLG) environment.
What Success Looks Like
- Achieving a unified and cohesive product experience that accelerates customer value and simplifies migration from legacy to AI-powered experiences.
- Material growth in subscription acquisition, expansion, retention, and overall Customer Lifetime Value (LTV).
- A measurable lift in adoption and revenue contribution from new AI products and capabilities.
- High organizational alignment and execution velocity across Product, Engineering, GTM, and Operations.
- A thriving, empowered, and high-performance Product organization.
Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? Apply anyway! We value diverse experiences and encourage you to bring your unique talents to our team!
Benefits & Perks
- Comprehensive health plans (including Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for full-time employees)
- Unlimited PTO
- Competitive salary packages
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Supplemental Optional Life Insurance Benefits
- FSA Options Optional
- HSA with Company Match
- 401k program with Company Match
- Wellhub & ClassPass fitness platforms
- Comprehensive Pet Insurance options
- Financial Wellbeing & Student Loan Program access
- Access to additional Mental Health & Wellbeing resources
- Pre-tax Commuter/Transit Benefits
- Free Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates
Interview Process
- Recruiter Phone Screen
- Role Assessment(s)
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Panel Interviews
- Final Interview
Rocket Lawyer 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 conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, military or veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We particularly welcome applications from veterans and military spouses.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to hr@rocketlawyer.com.
Compensation
Base salary range by location:
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA: $329,000 - $446,000
- California (outside of San Francisco Bay Area): $305,000 - $412,000
- Colorado: $280,000 - $379,000
- Utah, Arizona, and North Carolina: $263,000 - $356,000
Actual compensation packages are determined by various factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, specific work location, and performance during the interview process.
$263,000—$446,000 USD
By applying for this position, your data will be processed as per Rocket Lawyer Privacy Policy.
About Rocket Lawyer
We believe everyone deserves access to affordable and simple legal services. Founded in 2008, Rocket Lawyer is the largest and most widely used online legal service platform in the world. With offices in North America, South America, and Europe, Rocket Lawyer has helped over 30 million people create over 50 million legal documents, and get their legal questions answered. We are in a unique position to enhance and expand the Rocket Lawyer platform to a scale never seen before in the company’s history, to capture audiences worldwide. We are expanding our team to take on this challenge!
About Your Role
The Senior Vice President of Product is the strategic and operational leader responsible for defining our product vision, accelerating market adoption, and delivering exceptional business performance. This role will help drive the transition of our trusted legacy platform to our next-generation AI experiences, ensuring a modern, intuitive UX for our entire ecosystem - from the SMBs and families Rocket Lawyer serves to the legal professionals who support them. The ideal candidate possesses deep experience in PLG, and subscription-based / marketplace business models across both consumer and SMB markets. The candidate must have a proven ability to leverage customer insights to create compelling experiences that accelerate user acquisition, upsell, and long-term retention. This leader will be instrumental in bringing clarity, cohesion, and disciplined execution to a fast-moving, cross-functional organization.
How You Will Make a Difference Day To Day
Strategic Vision & Execution:
- Define, articulate, and relentlessly champion an ambitious, long-term product strategy.
- Leverage the Product Operating Model to deliver a product roadmap focused on innovative, AI-led experiences that drive value across the entire product lifecycle while simultaneously optimizing the current platform.
- Lead the harmonization of legacy platform features and new AI-driven products into a single, intuitive, customer experience.
- Build partner facing solutions that support new member acquisition.
- Cultivate an innovative product culture that skillfully balances speed, agility, and disciplined prioritization.
Growth & Business Performance:
- Own the Product-Led Growth (PLG) experiences designed to engage, upsell, and retain all customer segments.
- Own product-driven revenue drivers, including activation, engagement, conversion and retention.
- Partner closely with Growth, Operations, and Finance on pricing, packaging, and go-to-market strategies to maximize new member growth, retention, and Customer Lifetime Value (LTV).
- Instill a culture of operational rigor for roadmap planning and delivery (focusing on speed, consistency, quality, and customer-informed decisions). Own scoping and resource planning.
- Oversee product migrations, transitions, and adoption strategies to minimize friction and maximize customer value realization.
Leadership & Customer Focus:
- Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing Product organization, including Product Managers, Design, and Product Operations.
- Create strong alignment across Product, Engineering, Data, Growth, and Operations to ensure coordinated, high-velocity execution.
- Serve as a senior executive voice across the company, influencing strategy and effectively representing the product direction to internal and external stakeholders.
- Direct qualitative and quantitative UX research and customer surveys to ground all product experience decisions in a deep understanding of customer needs, barriers, and motivations.
What You’ll Need
- 15+ years of progressive product management experience, including 8+ years in executive leadership roles, with at least 5 years leading product teams through large-scale transformation.
- Demonstrated success in driving strategy, adoption, and performance within high-growth, subscription-based businesses (Consumer and SMB).
- Proven track record of delivering measurable, material growth in customer acquisition, expansion, and retention.
- Extensive experience managing product portfolios that include both established, legacy systems and new platform innovations.
- Strong understanding of AI-enabled products, data-driven decision-making, and modern product development practices.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management abilities at the executive level.
- Deep business acumen with the ability to connect customer needs, product capabilities, and financial outcomes.
A plus if you have
- Experience in legal tech, fintech, SaaS, or other highly regulated or trust-driven industries.
- Experience building marketplace product experiences.
- Extensive background operating in a Product-Led Growth (PLG) environment.
What Success Looks Like
- Achieving a unified and cohesive product experience that accelerates customer value and simplifies migration from legacy to AI-powered experiences.
- Material growth in subscription acquisition, expansion, retention, and overall Customer Lifetime Value (LTV).
- A measurable lift in adoption and revenue contribution from new AI products and capabilities.
- High organizational alignment and execution velocity across Product, Engineering, GTM, and Operations.
- A thriving, empowered, and high-performance Product organization.
Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? Apply anyway! We value diverse experiences and encourage you to bring your unique talents to our team!
Benefits & Perks
- Comprehensive health plans (including Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for full-time employees)
- Unlimited PTO
- Competitive salary packages
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Supplemental Optional Life Insurance Benefits
- FSA Options Optional
- HSA with Company Match
- 401k program with Company Match
- Wellhub & ClassPass fitness platforms
- Comprehensive Pet Insurance options
- Financial Wellbeing & Student Loan Program access
- Access to additional Mental Health & Wellbeing resources
- Pre-tax Commuter/Transit Benefits
- Free Rocket Lawyer account with online access to an extensive legal documents library and brilliant licensed attorneys at discounted rates
Interview Process
- Recruiter Phone Screen
- Role Assessment(s)
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Panel Interviews
- Final Interview
Rocket Lawyer 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 conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, military or veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We particularly welcome applications from veterans and military spouses.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to hr@rocketlawyer.com.
Compensation
Base salary range by location:
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA: $329,000 - $446,000
- California (outside of San Francisco Bay Area): $305,000 - $412,000
- Colorado: $280,000 - $379,000
- Utah, Arizona, and North Carolina: $263,000 - $356,000
Actual compensation packages are determined by various factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, specific work location, and performance during the interview process.
$263,000—$446,000 USD
By applying for this position, your data will be processed as per Rocket Lawyer Privacy Policy.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding J-1 Visa Sponsorship in VP Of Operations
Build a competency-based training plan document
J-1 Trainee and Specialist programs require a formal Training Plan outlining specific skills you'll develop, not just job duties. Draft this before outreach so host employers can see exactly what the program requires of them operationally.
Verify your experience meets Specialist eligibility
The J-1 Specialist category requires at least five years of specialized expertise in your field. Audit your resume against DOL and State Department criteria before applying so gaps don't surface after a host employer is already interested.
Search Migrate Mate for J-1 host employers
Use Migrate Mate to identify U.S. companies that have hosted international professionals in operations leadership roles. Targeting organizations with a J-1 history significantly shortens the education cycle with hiring teams.
Distinguish your host employer from your visa sponsor
When negotiating your offer, clarify upfront that a State Department-designated sponsor organization, such as Cultural Vistas or AIPT, issues the DS-2019 and manages compliance. Your employer signs the training plan but does not control your visa status.
Flag home-country residency requirements early in negotiations
VP-level J-1 participants funded by their home-country government or working in certain fields may face a two-year home residency requirement after the program. Surface this before accepting an offer so both sides can plan for continuity.
Align your program dates with your host's operational calendar
J-1 Trainee programs max out at 18 months and Specialist programs at 24 months. Negotiate your start date and training milestones so your program end date does not fall mid-cycle during a critical budget or planning period for your host.
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Find VP Of Operations JobsVP Of Operations J-1 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Which J-1 program category fits a VP of Operations role?
Most VP of Operations candidates qualify under the J-1 Trainee or Specialist category. Trainee applies if you have a relevant degree plus at least one year of post-degree work experience outside the U.S. Specialist applies if you have at least five years of specialized expertise in operations management. The right category depends on your background and the training objectives your host employer defines.
Who actually sponsors the J-1 visa for this role, the employer or a third party?
The visa sponsor is always a U.S. Department of State-designated organization, not your employer. Organizations such as Cultural Vistas, AIPT, or the Institute of International Education issue the DS-2019 form and oversee program compliance. Your host employer signs the training plan and provides the work environment, but the designated sponsor holds legal responsibility for your J-1 status throughout the program.
How do I find U.S. companies open to hosting a J-1 VP of Operations?
Migrate Mate lets you filter for U.S. employers and roles aligned with J-1 sponsorship at the operations leadership level, which saves you from cold-pitching companies unfamiliar with the program. Operations VP roles tend to land at mid-market and enterprise companies with global supply chains or multi-site footprints, since those organizations are more likely to have existing international hiring infrastructure.
Does the two-year home residency requirement apply to VP of Operations participants?
It can. The two-year home residency requirement under INA Section 212(e) applies if your J-1 program was financed by your home-country government, if you participated in a graduate medical program, or if your skills appear on your home country's exchange visitor skills list. If it applies, you must return home for two years or obtain a waiver before changing to most other U.S. visa categories.
Can I transition from a J-1 VP of Operations role to a long-term U.S. work visa?
Yes, but timing and the two-year residency requirement determine your options. If the requirement does not apply or you obtain a waiver, your host employer can petition for an H-1B or your experience may support an O-1A for individuals with extraordinary ability in business operations. Start this conversation with your host employer at least six months before your J-1 program ends to preserve continuity.
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