VP, Product Strategy - Verification Services

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Drive and manage the performance of product leaders, providing coaching, development and mentoring to ensure their successful leadership of the product managers; Set clear expectations for effective talent management and hold subordinate managers accountable for goal-setting, honest employee evaluations, and the incorporation of actionable development plans.
• Provide thought leadership and oversight for overall Market Understanding on products and product lines directly managed and others as consulted; Oversee on-going market validation through review and testing of concepts with existing and prospective customers (voice of customer, customer advisory boards, etc.) to ensure maintained competitive advantage.
• Demonstrate understanding of portfolios and each leaders execution of product definition and opportunity prioritization; Consult on commercial model and packaging decisions.
• Create the vision and develop the strategy for product portfolios; Articulate the strategy across the organization and ensure alignment with key stakeholders; Drive Build, Buy, Partner approach and decisions for the products, product lines, & product portfolios within purview.
• Provide partnership and guidance throughout the product delivery process to ensure strong collaboration with a vast array of teams including product development, pricing, product marketing, legal, billing and delivery teams; Articulate product trade-offs across portfolio and drive alignment.
• Demonstrate customer-focused innovation, and provide leadership that enforces a customer-first mindset and performance; Provide thought leadership and approach for assessment and planning of the portfolio's future strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 10+ years of Product Strategy and Management related experience, including extensive experience with go-to-market strategy development.
• 5+ years of building and leading high-performing Product teams, overseeing the full talent lifecycle from onboarding to fostering a positive work environment that promotes retention and growth.
• Demonstrates a strong influential leadership style, leading teams in a highly matrixed environment required, working cross-functionally to drive innovation, prioritization and go-to-market strategies to deliver financial growth across product portfolios containing multiple products.
• Expert in cloud-based products and services, demonstrating an understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure, and deployment models.
• Mentors teams to write detailed product requirements and demonstrates a solid understanding of product design, commercial model and packaging discussions.
• Experienced in Product tools required (Aha, JIRA, Figma).
• Demonstrates deep understanding of customer needs through market and industry research and analysis of competitors.
• Is capable of setting the vision and ensuring its alignment with strategy and goals.
• Mastery at leading through influence with key decisions-makers within own function and across related functions to successfully navigate organization.
• Has managed executional rigor of team to deliver product efforts on time to meet market demands.
• Has owned financial performance of a product portfolio including investments, budgets.

Nice to Have

• Graduate degree preferred; Product Management certifications is a plus.
• Thought leader delivering executive level presentations and visual communication to convey the product vision.
• Experience in the technology and/or data industries or working with technology and/or data-related products and services preferred.
• Working in a highly matrixed organization is a plus.