VP Product

The Vice President of Product role requires a combination of entrepreneurship, innovative spirit, deep business, and technical acumen coupled with inspirational leadership qualities. Reporting to the President and CTO, this role will be responsible for building the Product Management and Product Engineering teams, fostering an exciting culture of execution, innovation and service delivery. This highly talented leader must also have a demonstrated ability to successfully lead a forward thinking, Product Engineering, and Product Management function globally as part of the Technology division. This role will be responsible for the delivery of the product roadmap, creating and supporting strategic partnerships with 3rd party vendors and customers, and creating innovative products that set the company apart from the competition. This position requires a focus on driving improvements through a combination of people, process, technology as well as, establishing and delivering the product vision underpinned by a robust product strategy and daily execution against the ratified product roadmap that drives growth.What will your day look like ''As the VP of Product, you will lead the ideation, development, and launch of a unique product strategy that positions Company as the leader within the market by defining, developing, and delivering products that solve customer business problems and make it easier for them to do business. You will establish partnerships that drive corporate objectives of market penetration, revenue, user adoption, and define, build, launch, and operate Company ''s product group at scale to meet the needs of our existing customers and attract new customers. You will lay out a roadmap for delivering differentiating and engaging products and services, working collaboratively across multiple teams to create a vision for the enterprise and identify the opportunities of differentiating products and solutions. In addition, you will perform periodic reviews and refreshes of the strategy, and roadmap based on new insights to drive product improvements that are critical to business processes, focused on improving customer satisfaction and time to resolution. The VP of Product will develop a strong vision, appropriately organize, develop and present ideas, options, plans, goals, initiatives, business cases and other pertinent information required by management to make effective decisions and measure success by measuring and tracking KPIs, performing architecture, design, and technical reviews throughout the product life cycle and ensuring that the product engineering and management teams meet departmental and corporate goals. You will hire, inspire, engage, and retain highly effective teams in a very execution focused culture and establish a product management practice that encompasses service ownership. Additionally, you will mentor and develop top talent for their career growth, and continuously evaluate people, processes, technologies to ensure improvement in employee and customer experience. RequirementsWhat Other Skills Give Me an AdvantageMinimum of 15 years of technical experience in the areas of product engineering, solutions engineer or technical customer support10+ years in IT, in multi-discipline areas (storage, systems, networking, virtualization, etc.) 7+ years in IT consulting and complex solution engagement management5+ years in operational role in IT (preferable at an IT Service Provider)5+ years of experience in having driven and implemented full lifecycle of critical infrastructure projects5+ Years prior cloud experience, as well as establishing cloud best practices for Service functionsBachelor ''s degree in a Technology-related discipline; Master''s degree preferredTechnical certification(s)Adept at creating a product vision that engages and attracts customers and partnersExperience with creating deep relationships with 3rd party vendors and partnersDeep understanding of cloud & virtualization technologies and cloud platforms including VMWare, AWS and AzureIn-depth understanding of how to build, deploy, scale, and operate Technical Operations in Public Cloud and Private data center environments Be comfortable in an unstructured and start-up environment of constant and rapid change, rapid pace of execution, and be able to fail fast and course correct efficientlyData and metrics driven with a deep understanding of the ideal customer profile and operational metrics of the companyWork with others collaboratively requires the ability to change the thinking of, or gain acceptance of, others in challenging and at times difficult situationsDemonstrates critical thinking skills, assimilates, and implements new information rapidly and thinks strategicallyPractical understanding of a large breadth of infrastructure technologies: Cloud platform, hypervisor technologies, storage solutions and VMware virtualization productsArchitectural reference models, defining requirements and use cases for proof-of-concept validationUnderstanding of security principles and technologies such as Firewalls, IPS and threat mitigation solutionsDirect experience with compliance frameworks and service delivery requirementsNetwork fundamentals, OSI model and IP networking communicationsAbility to work in a fast-paced growth organization with a focus on revenue growth and retentionRobust conflict resolutions skills

Created: 2021-11-29