VP, Product
Role Overview
The VP of Product translates business strategy, customer needs, and technology advantage into a product portfolio that drives adoption, recurring revenue, and market differentiation.
The role leads Product Management and Product Operations and scales the product operating model across discovery, prioritization, development, launch, and lifecycle management.
This is a player-coach role: the leader inherits a product vision, North Star, and operating model, personally leads operator discovery, and builds a lean product team.
The product agenda includes making the platform essential to production teams, anticipating and preventing failures, demonstrating measurable economics, extending autonomous optimization, and earning trust in AI-enabled autonomy.
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Role overview
The VP of Product translates business strategy, customer needs, and technology advantage into a product portfolio that drives adoption, recurring revenue, and market differentiation.
The role leads Product Management and Product Operations and scales the product operating model across discovery, prioritization, development, launch, and lifecycle management.
This is a player-coach role: the leader inherits a product vision, North Star, and operating model, personally leads operator discovery, and builds a lean product team.
The product agenda includes making the platform essential to production teams, anticipating and preventing failures, demonstrating measurable economics, extending autonomous optimization, and earning trust in AI-enabled autonomy.
Product strategy and delivery
- Own product vision, strategy, portfolio sequencing, outcome-based roadmaps, and investment recommendations aligned with company goals and financial objectives.
- Establish portfolio governance and decision rights; partner with the Co-CEOs and executive team on planning, Board materials, operating reviews, and investment decisions.
- Build product discovery and research practices; validate customer problems, value, usability, feasibility, and viability before committing development capacity.
- Co-lead Product Operations across planning, prioritization, release readiness, product data, tooling, governance, communication, and post-launch learning.
- Improve visibility and reliability of important commitments while avoiding unnecessary process; establish product tooling, documentation, reporting, and knowledge management.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success on segmentation, positioning, packaging, pricing inputs, launches, enablement, revenue, retention, and customer time to value.
- Use market intelligence, competitive analysis, win-loss insights, and customer outcomes to strengthen product-market fit; represent product strategy to customers, partners, investors, and the Board as needed.
- Partner with Engineering on architecture, platform scalability, security, reliability, delivery capacity, AI application, and real-world industrial workflows.
- Guide responsible AI and automation decisions with attention to model performance, explainability, data quality, customer trust, and operational safety.
- Build Product Management and Product Operations capabilities, structures, leadership depth, and empowered teams with outcome-based objectives.
Qualifications
- Progressive product leadership in AI industrial or physical-world B2B technology, enterprise software, or AI, including executive or senior functional leadership.
- Demonstrated success defining product strategy, managing a portfolio, and scaling products through significant growth.
- Experience leading Product Management and a product operating discipline, including roadmap governance, product analytics, planning cadences, and launch readiness.
- Evidence connecting product decisions to revenue, adoption, retention, customer outcomes, and market expansion.
- Track record building and scaling high-performing teams in cross-functional, geographically distributed environments.
- Ability to engage credibly with technical teams, customers, executives, and Board members and simplify complex issues into clear decisions.
- Energy, industrial operations, production optimization, or asset-intensive industry experience is an asset.
- Experience with products acting on physical systems, such as OT, industrial control, or energy, is strongly preferred; customer-facing domain-expert product experience is an asset.
- Willingness to spend regular time in the field with operators, approximately 20–25% travel.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience will be considered. Experience following institutional financing is strongly valued.
Leadership profile
- Connect customer problems, market opportunity, company economics, and technology choices to a focused portfolio.
- Use customer evidence, make explicit trade-offs, protect focus, and create accountability for outcomes.
- Build trust across functions, invite challenge, and give teams clarity without unnecessary control.
- Move between executive strategy and the practical systems, talent, and operating rhythms needed to scale.
- Communicate through ambiguity and write clear product strategy and decision narratives, including quarterly reviews of commitments, delivery, and KPI movement.
Work environment and benefits
- The company describes its work environment as hybrid and offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Ambyint describes itself as a scale-up developing technology for the energy transition and offers opportunities for professional development.
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