VP, Product Management
The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech.
What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way.
You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.
The RoleWe are looking for an experienced Product leader to lead the global Product Management function across all product portfolios for the company.
The individual in this role will lead the following core areas:
Customer Engagement:
Deeply understand the challenges, needs and desires of the customer to build an excellent product experience and identify proper positioning in the market.
Use customer insights to drive product decisions.
Product Vision:
Sets the vision for all products and what those products will do for target audience customers and users, by solving problems and delivering value.
Align vision to the overall goals and objectives of the organization.
Product Strategy:
Responsible for detailed roadmap for the product life cycle (formation through execution), specifying the market and market needs.
Product Lifecycle Management:
Responsible for managing new product development and the day-to-day management of the entire product portfolio to drive profitable growth for all AspenTech product portfolios.
People Leadership:
Hire, coach and retain top talent - the individual will be responsible for leading a best-in-class Product Management organization that can attract and retain top talent.
You are the Global Functional Head where you will empower, and coach very senior and accomplished product leaders is key.
Your Impact Overall responsibility for all product and solution road maps and product life cycles.
Ensure the transformation of product ideas into actionable concepts, timelines, and projects while maintaining a serious consideration of the financial implications, market needs, and the overall objectives of the business.
Collaborate with Marketing to define a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive set of the relevant business processes for AspenTech software to automate, streamline and optimize.
Interpret comprehensive customer and market input to develop a thoughtful and informed perspective of product and market opportunities, including competition and differentiation.
Develop and measure metric-based objectives (short and long term) and manage the day-to-day efforts of the product team to ensure a high level of responsiveness, flexibility, and efficiency.
Design, scale and optimize go-to-market strategies across new and existing markets, channels, and customers.
Research, document, and champion market pain points, use cases and gaps to assess market opportunities and create product requirements to address unmet market needs.
Understand the performance of various product analyses such as gap analysis to establish product differentiation and execution strategies that will lead to the product's ultimate success.
Create a common way (across the portfolio) to storyboard common customer practices and workflows which spanning multiple AspenTech products.
Define maturity models that represent common levels of sophistication toward best practices.
Build and nurture strong Customer executive relationships to develop a holistic and deep view of the product needs and current programs.
Create a structure to leverage inputs from Corporate Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Solution Consulting and Customer Success to measure and improve product success within the product life cycles.
Collaborate with Services and Business Consulting to ensure that on-going and future benchmark studies are consistent with the business process framework.
Collaborate with Quality to ensure that test scripts are defined to validate that our product support common process workflows (across products and previous versions).
Build, develop, motivate, and lead a team to meet and exceed growth and adoption targets and other financial metrics.
Engaging leader who builds and sustains credibility with their team, colleagues, customers, and other stakeholders.
Partner closely with R&D to drive innovation in our software delivery technology to better meet our customers' needs.
This scope would include expanded use of electronic software delivery, on-line entitlement management and improvements to our physical media.
Execution Focused.
This person knows how to get things done, pays close attention to detail, and inspects what she/he expects.
Outcome Orientation.
This individual will be energized by a challenge and will stretch her/his team to achieve beyond what is expected, even under adverse circumstances.
This leader will have demonstrated his/her ability to successfully introduce new products/services to market within a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment in a manner that is timely, cost-effective, and fully meets the needs of the target segment.
This individual will have a proven track record as a decisive, action-oriented individual, who has led a business to superior performance through a thoughtful and balanced mix of creativity, strategy, and execution.
Strategic Orientation.
The ideal candidate will have a track record of bringing highly strategic and well-researched products and services to market and will have demonstrated an ability to marshal intensive market analysis, immediate customer feedback, and competitive analysis to drive solution development.
This analytic and intellectually curious approach will be complemented by a well-honed intuition for spotting unmet market needs.
Collaborating and influencing.
The successful candidate will communicate with conviction and clarity, whether working with the senior executive team, internal organizations, or customers.
As the leader among equals for the executive level cross-functional product team, this individual will be able to lead across R&D, Product Marketing, Sales, and Operations.
While the individual will not hesitate to take bold action when appropriate, he/she will have a natural inclination toward leading through collaboration and seek input and buy-in from key players across the company and his/her team.
He/she will also demonstrate the personal flexibility to adapt to proven corporate philosophies and practices, as well as contribute new, innovative thinking.
Team Builder / Motivator.
Leading by example and demonstrating high personal energy and influence in every interaction, he/she will have the ability to energize and motivate the organization around the growth vision and direction.
We are looking for a leader who has a very high level of integrity and a strong moral compass.
He/she will have been successful working with diverse teams in different environments and cultures and be able to point to specific examples where they have developed future leaders.
What You'll Need 10
years of progressive product leadership, including a demonstrated record of success in bringing products from early-stage development to market launch.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science is preferred, MBA a plus.
Understanding of cloud-based technologies/platforms and modern cloud interfaces is important.
Experience in communicating a product vision and prospective road map to leadership, clients, and team members alike.
Deep functional understanding of product management systems and methodologies; experience managing and scaling a high performing product team.
Strong external communication skills to engage with customers and prospects as part of product planning and support efforts.
Able to contribute to broader business planning discussions.
Recommended Skills Analytical Attention To Detail Automation Branding Business Planning Business Processes Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way.
You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.
The RoleWe are looking for an experienced Product leader to lead the global Product Management function across all product portfolios for the company.
The individual in this role will lead the following core areas:
Customer Engagement:
Deeply understand the challenges, needs and desires of the customer to build an excellent product experience and identify proper positioning in the market.
Use customer insights to drive product decisions.
Product Vision:
Sets the vision for all products and what those products will do for target audience customers and users, by solving problems and delivering value.
Align vision to the overall goals and objectives of the organization.
Product Strategy:
Responsible for detailed roadmap for the product life cycle (formation through execution), specifying the market and market needs.
Product Lifecycle Management:
Responsible for managing new product development and the day-to-day management of the entire product portfolio to drive profitable growth for all AspenTech product portfolios.
People Leadership:
Hire, coach and retain top talent - the individual will be responsible for leading a best-in-class Product Management organization that can attract and retain top talent.
You are the Global Functional Head where you will empower, and coach very senior and accomplished product leaders is key.
Your Impact Overall responsibility for all product and solution road maps and product life cycles.
Ensure the transformation of product ideas into actionable concepts, timelines, and projects while maintaining a serious consideration of the financial implications, market needs, and the overall objectives of the business.
Collaborate with Marketing to define a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive set of the relevant business processes for AspenTech software to automate, streamline and optimize.
Interpret comprehensive customer and market input to develop a thoughtful and informed perspective of product and market opportunities, including competition and differentiation.
Develop and measure metric-based objectives (short and long term) and manage the day-to-day efforts of the product team to ensure a high level of responsiveness, flexibility, and efficiency.
Design, scale and optimize go-to-market strategies across new and existing markets, channels, and customers.
Research, document, and champion market pain points, use cases and gaps to assess market opportunities and create product requirements to address unmet market needs.
Understand the performance of various product analyses such as gap analysis to establish product differentiation and execution strategies that will lead to the product's ultimate success.
Create a common way (across the portfolio) to storyboard common customer practices and workflows which spanning multiple AspenTech products.
Define maturity models that represent common levels of sophistication toward best practices.
Build and nurture strong Customer executive relationships to develop a holistic and deep view of the product needs and current programs.
Create a structure to leverage inputs from Corporate Marketing, Engineering, Sales, Solution Consulting and Customer Success to measure and improve product success within the product life cycles.
Collaborate with Services and Business Consulting to ensure that on-going and future benchmark studies are consistent with the business process framework.
Collaborate with Quality to ensure that test scripts are defined to validate that our product support common process workflows (across products and previous versions).
Build, develop, motivate, and lead a team to meet and exceed growth and adoption targets and other financial metrics.
Engaging leader who builds and sustains credibility with their team, colleagues, customers, and other stakeholders.
Partner closely with R&D to drive innovation in our software delivery technology to better meet our customers' needs.
This scope would include expanded use of electronic software delivery, on-line entitlement management and improvements to our physical media.
Execution Focused.
This person knows how to get things done, pays close attention to detail, and inspects what she/he expects.
Outcome Orientation.
This individual will be energized by a challenge and will stretch her/his team to achieve beyond what is expected, even under adverse circumstances.
This leader will have demonstrated his/her ability to successfully introduce new products/services to market within a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment in a manner that is timely, cost-effective, and fully meets the needs of the target segment.
This individual will have a proven track record as a decisive, action-oriented individual, who has led a business to superior performance through a thoughtful and balanced mix of creativity, strategy, and execution.
Strategic Orientation.
The ideal candidate will have a track record of bringing highly strategic and well-researched products and services to market and will have demonstrated an ability to marshal intensive market analysis, immediate customer feedback, and competitive analysis to drive solution development.
This analytic and intellectually curious approach will be complemented by a well-honed intuition for spotting unmet market needs.
Collaborating and influencing.
The successful candidate will communicate with conviction and clarity, whether working with the senior executive team, internal organizations, or customers.
As the leader among equals for the executive level cross-functional product team, this individual will be able to lead across R&D, Product Marketing, Sales, and Operations.
While the individual will not hesitate to take bold action when appropriate, he/she will have a natural inclination toward leading through collaboration and seek input and buy-in from key players across the company and his/her team.
He/she will also demonstrate the personal flexibility to adapt to proven corporate philosophies and practices, as well as contribute new, innovative thinking.
Team Builder / Motivator.
Leading by example and demonstrating high personal energy and influence in every interaction, he/she will have the ability to energize and motivate the organization around the growth vision and direction.
We are looking for a leader who has a very high level of integrity and a strong moral compass.
He/she will have been successful working with diverse teams in different environments and cultures and be able to point to specific examples where they have developed future leaders.
What You'll Need 10
years of progressive product leadership, including a demonstrated record of success in bringing products from early-stage development to market launch.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science is preferred, MBA a plus.
Understanding of cloud-based technologies/platforms and modern cloud interfaces is important.
Experience in communicating a product vision and prospective road map to leadership, clients, and team members alike.
Deep functional understanding of product management systems and methodologies; experience managing and scaling a high performing product team.
Strong external communication skills to engage with customers and prospects as part of product planning and support efforts.
Able to contribute to broader business planning discussions.
Recommended Skills Analytical Attention To Detail Automation Branding Business Planning Business Processes Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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