Chief Growth and Product Officer
AccuWeather · Remote
The AccuWeather Chief Growth and Product Officer (CGPO) reports to the CEO and leads business strategy, business planning, and profit and loss (P&L) performance across all AccuWeather business units. The CGPO sets the growth vision for the consumer, enterprise, and data businesses and translates that vision into measurable business plans and a unified companywide product roadmap.
The CGPO oversees business unit leaders and product management, resolves priorities across the portfolio, and aligns product investment with revenue and profitability goals. Working with sales, marketing, technology, and operations leaders, the CGPO provides day-to-day business leadership and clear accountability for results, enabling the CEO to devote more time to customers, strategic partnerships, and growth.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Business strategy and financial performance
•Own the financial and P&L performance across the business units. Work with Finance and business leaders on budgets, forecasts, investment cases, and will drive corrective actions, with clear accountability for revenue, profitability, and return on investment
.•Develop and execute the growth strategy for AccuWeather’s business portfolio, including consumer, enterprise, and data. Establish business plans that define target markets, competitive advantages, revenue opportunities, and the investments required to deliver profitable growth.
•Lead all business units and the Product Management function under one coordinated strategy. Set clear responsibilities for business and product leaders, resolve overlapping ownership, and streamline decisions across the portfolio.
•Conduct regular business reviews with the CEO and Finance against agreed growth, profitability, customer retention, and product adoption measures. Identify performance gaps and adjust plans, priorities, and resources accordingly.
Commercial growth and market development
•Identify target customer segments and markets through analysis of customer needs, market trends, and competitive offerings. Work with sales and marketing leaders on pricing, positioning, packaging, and bundling across business lines. Partner with sales and marketing leaders on go-to-market plans, customer pursuits, cross-selling, and expansion opportunities.
•Develop the business opportunity for AI-integrated weather and data products, including services embedded in customers’ AI systems and business workflows. Define customer value, revenue models, and commercialization plans with sales, marketing, and technology leaders.
Product portfolio and execution
•Own the companywide product vision and roadmap, grounded in business strategy and P&L goals. Align product priorities across business units and sequence investments according to customer demand, expected returns, and delivery capacity.
•Improve core consumer products, subscriptions, and targeted experiences to increase engagement, retention, and monetization. Adapt product and distribution strategies as user behavior, AI-driven discovery, and advertising markets change.
•Lead the product prioritization process and prepare recommendations for the Product Prioritization Executive Committee, chaired by the CEO. Present business cases, resource requirements, and tradeoffs, and maintain the roadmap following decisions. The CEO retains final decision authority.
•Translate business opportunities and product ideas into clear requirements, milestones, and launch plans. Partner with technology and operations leaders on delivery commitments, quality, and readiness, with each function retaining its execution responsibilities.
•Establish consistent practices for customer research, product design, prototyping, and product lifecycle management. Track adoption and financial results after launch and use those findings to improve products and future investment decisions.
•Evaluate product differentiation, portfolio gaps, and business performance. Recommend which offerings to launch, scale, consolidate, or retire, with a clear financial and customer rationale.
•Work closely with AccuWeather Lab and technology leaders to evaluate new ideas, validate customer demand, and bring promising innovations to market.
Leadership and organizational effectiveness
•Mentor business and product leaders, strengthening their strategic, financial, and commercial judgment. Set clear goals, review results, and develop future leaders.
•Work with the Chief People Officer to build and retain a strong team. Assign business and product lead responsibilities to capable team members, keep management layers lean, and use AI and automation to improve workflows and team effectiveness.
•Support the CEO and Finance in evaluating acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Assess strategic fit, growth potential, and integration requirements, and lead business and product integration within the CGPO portfolio when transactions proceed.
•Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
•At least 10 years of progressive leadership experience in business strategy, general management, or product leadership, including direct P&L accountability and responsibility for a complex portfolio of businesses or products.
•Demonstrated success growing enterprise, data, subscription, or digital media businesses through product strategy and coordinated sales and marketing execution.
•Experience in weather enterprise, weather data, or decision-support services is strongly preferred.
•Possess outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
•Demonstrated ability to lead business and product leaders, align cross-functional teams, resolve competing priorities, and drive accountability for measurable results.
•Strong financial and analytical skills, including business planning, pricing, investment evaluation, and the use of business and product metrics to guide decisions.
•Sound judgment, strong problem-solving and organizational skills, and the ability to prioritize opportunities and manage multiple initiatives through execution.
•Technical fluency in digital products, data services, APIs, and AI applications, with the ability to translate technical capabilities into customer value and commercially viable offerings.
ABOUT ACCUWEATHER
AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.
Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.
AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.
AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.
Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all app