Vice President of Product Management and Development

Vice President of Product Management & Development
Location: United States
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: Remote / Hybrid / On-site
Reports To: Chief Executive Officer
Position Overview
The Vice President of Product Management & Development leads the planning, development, and commercial advancement of the company's products. This executive is responsible for determining which products and capabilities the organization should build, how development resources should be allocated, and how product investments can generate sustainable business value.
The role requires close collaboration with engineering, design, sales, marketing, finance, and operations. The VP will establish clear product priorities, guide development decisions, and ensure that products respond to customer needs while meeting commercial, technical, and operational expectations.
Primary Responsibilities
Product Strategy and Portfolio Planning
Develop product strategies that support company objectives, customer requirements, and competitive positioning.
Evaluate proposed products and feature enhancements according to market demand, commercial potential, development costs, and technical feasibility.
Maintain a prioritized roadmap covering product concepts, active development, planned releases, and future improvements.
Recommend investment priorities and resource allocation across competing product initiatives.
Identify underperforming products, overlapping functionality, and opportunities to improve the portfolio.
Present business cases and product recommendations to executive leadership, including anticipated benefits, resource requirements, dependencies, and risks.
Product Discovery and Design
Gather customer insights through interviews, feedback analysis, market research, and collaboration with customer-facing teams.
Translate business opportunities into product requirements, user workflows, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
Work with design teams to improve usability, simplify customer journeys, and validate proposed solutions.
Prioritize feature requests according to customer impact, strategic importance, implementation effort, and expected value.
Ensure product documentation provides development teams with clear objectives and measurable completion standards.
Development and Release Management
Coordinate with engineering leadership to establish development plans, delivery milestones, and resource requirements.
Resolve product-side decisions affecting scope, sequencing, dependencies, and release priorities.
Monitor delivery progress and intervene when projects face material delays, budget pressures, or unresolved requirements.
Establish practical procedures for reviewing changes to product scope and communicating their impact on delivery commitments.
Coordinate release preparation with engineering, quality assurance, security, operations, and customer support.
Ensure major releases meet agreed testing, documentation, readiness, and quality requirements.
Review delivery outcomes and implement improvements to reduce avoidable rework and recurring execution problems.
Commercialization and Product Performance
Partner with sales and marketing to define target audiences, product positioning, pricing recommendations, and launch plans.
Ensure commercial teams understand product capabilities, limitations, and customer value propositions.
Establish adoption objectives and monitor usage, engagement, retention, conversion, and revenue contribution.
Identify barriers to adoption and coordinate improvements with relevant functional teams.
Evaluate opportunities to expand successful products, improve packaging, introduce additional capabilities, or discontinue offerings that no longer justify their costs.
Conduct post-launch reviews comparing actual performance with original business assumptions and investment objectives.
Budget, Risk, and Product Governance
Work with finance to prepare product budgets, assess investment proposals, and monitor spending against approved plans.
Balance new development against maintenance, reliability, technical debt, and customer-requested improvements.
Establish product standards for requirements documentation, release approval, issue escalation, and post-launch evaluation.
Collaborate with legal, compliance, information security, and risk teams when product decisions involve sensitive information, regulated activities, or material operational exposure.
Maintain clear accountability for product decisions, delivery risks, and corrective actions.
Executive Scope and Team Leadership
The VP will lead the product management function, establish team priorities, and develop product managers capable of making sound commercial and customer-focused decisions.
Within delegated authority, the executive will approve roadmap sequencing, manage product management resources, establish product standards, and resolve routine prioritization conflicts. Major investments, significant strategic changes, and decisions exceeding approved financial or risk limits will be escalated to executive leadership.
The VP will also maintain effective working relationships with engineering leadership, ensuring that business requirements and product priorities are clearly defined while technical implementation decisions remain grounded in engineering expertise.
Professional Qualifications
20+ years of progressive professional experience in product management, product development, technology leadership, or related business disciplines.
Extensive experience managing product portfolios and overseeing products from discovery and planning through development, launch, and ongoing improvement.
Demonstrated ability to connect customer needs, market opportunities, and company strategy with executable product roadmaps.
Experience managing budgets, prioritizing investments, and evaluating product performance against business objectives.
Strong understanding of product requirements, development lifecycles, release planning, and customer-centered design.
Proven ability to lead teams and coordinate cross-functional initiatives involving technical and commercial stakeholders.
Strong analytical, communication, negotiation, and executive decision-making skills.
Experience in technology, SaaS, fintech, financial services, enterprise software, or related industries is valuable. Direct digital asset industry experience is not required.
Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline preferred.
Measures of Success
Performance will be assessed against agreed product and business objectives, including:
Progress against approved product roadmaps and delivery commitments.
Adoption, engagement, retention, and customer satisfaction for key offerings.
Commercial contribution from new products and major product enhancements.
Development efficiency, requirements quality, and reduction in avoidable rework.
Product spending against approved budgets and the quality of investment decisions.
Release quality, issue resolution, and effectiveness of corrective actions.
Targets will reflect the company's product maturity, development capacity, and annual business plan.
Compensation and Benefits
The compensation package may include a competitive executive base salary, performance-based incentives, equity or long-term incentives where applicable, medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, company holidays, and professional development support.
Work Environment
This is a full-time executive position based in the United States. Remote, hybrid, or on-site arrangements will depend on business requirements. Regular collaboration with executive leadership and cross-functional teams is expected, with occasional travel for planning sessions, customer meetings, or other business activities.

Work arrangement
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