Vice President, Product

Why this role matters:

We are looking for a Senior Product Leader that has experience working in a Developer or API focused technology organization. This is an opportunity to support & empower a highly respected globally distributed and diverse Product Management team - as well as an opportunity to truly influence how billions of people around the world communicate!

Vonage is at a pivotal stage of its evolution and this role will be a key contributor to delivering our 3-year strategy (and beyond) and be part of a talented leadership team reporting into Savinay Berry - EVP Product & Engineering.

Our Product Vision is to “ Enable an immersive customer engagement platform that powers experiences and conversations wherever you are. Turning notifications into conversations” and we are looking for this SVP to live and breathe this vision and through collaboration understanding customer needs and through influencing without authority turn this vision into a strategy and deliver.

What you will do:

Go-to-Market & Revenue Generation

• Create strategic direction and monitor effectiveness of the go-to-market process.

• Create pricing frameworks for the Product Management function.

• Own the overall product financial forecast.

• Create and maintain customer segmentation.

• Ensure product marketing processes align with and support corporate strategic objectives.

Lifecycle Management

• Oversee development and implementation of Product Management governance processes and workflows enterprise wide.

• Establish and manage project interdependencies and priorities.

• Identify and champion creation of new products and capabilities to meet evolving business challenges.

• Own responsibility for project risk identification and resolution.

Strategy

• Establish overall Product Management direction and actively support associated goals and objectives.

• Own annual strategic planning and priority setting processes.

• Oversee creation and maintenance of multi-quarter strategic BU roadmap.

• Continually seek opportunities to maximize revenue generation.

What you will bring:

• Senior level product leadership experience operated in a role that has global impact and scale

• Commercial experience and understanding of how good product management can influence and impact the sales activities

• Product leadership skills at the executive level - confident & comfortable articulating product vision to C-Suite and Board Members

• Experience leading product management within a Developer Led API or Platform based technology business - ideal not essential

• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.

• Ability to:

  • Define articulate and drive the vision strategy architecture design and implementation of complex large scale software systems.

  • Present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a wide variety of audiences.

  • Identify risks and threats in current and emerging technologies procedures features and operations.

  • Develop technical and process skills in others. #LI-JM1