Our client is a major European Cloud leader,

As part of a continued growth, we are hiring a VP Product, as a key product strategist and contribute to expansion and success of our client.

About the job

The Product team is composed of four key skillsets (Product Management, Product Marketing, Design and Product Documentation), that pair with developers and engineers in order to build, deploy in production, and scale all the products from cloud ecosystem. The products we build aim to provide our clients with cloud services that enable them to optimize their technical architecture and serve all of their needs for scalability and automation.

Consequently, our clients do not have to build their infrastructure from scratch and can focus their resources on their added value: building their core business apps!

As of today, our client has a large product portfolio of over 100 products, including server and virtual machine ranges, network and security products, storage offers, databases, managed services, containers, and last but not least, AI training and inference services. Not to mention all the products that still need to be built to extend our ecosystem!

Reporting to the CEO, you will be responsible for managing a team of 60 Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers, Product and Visual Designers, and Product Documentation Writers.

Responsibilities

Management:

• Coach and manage the Product team with profiles of various seniority in their daily job and career
• Drive the velocity of the team towards the delivery of an agile and dynamic product roadmap
• Identify pain points and remove blockers to help them in their operational duties
• Take on the role of acting Head of Product/PM when needed

Product Leadership:

• Articulate a product vision and strategy to guide the Product and Engineering teams and to drive the growth of s cloud product ecosystem
• Own the overall product roadmap and drive the PMs to build and update the ongoing roadmaps for each product portfolio
• Own the P&L of product ecosystem
• Collaborate with and drive Engineering and Operations on the deployment and rollout of new cloud products
• Ability to be an ambassador for Product Management internally and externally
• Lead by example, values leadership by persuasion

Transversal Leadership:

• Collaborate closely with the other operational leaders of the company to drive product deployments and help gain commercial traction
• Support the Sales team in bid management (including business plans and pricing), product messaging for clients and client relationship management
• Interact with clients on a regular basis to understand their pain points, represent the company and share the product roadmap
• Collaborate with the CTO to drive product delivery and work to constantly improve methodology and operational efficiency for the product and engineering teams
• Collaborate with the data center Operations team to help manage our hardware lifecycle and optimise data center space

Minimum qualifications:

• More than 10 years of experience in Product Management (Discovery, Delivery, client interactions, Roadmap, Product strategy)
• Previous experience as a CPO in a technology company
• Experience developing and/or using cloud products and services
• Proven management experience, as well as experience on coaching/mentoring to make individuals and teams shine
• Ability to articulate a clear product strategy and vision and evangelize it internally and externally
• Tenacity and proactivity to carry the Product team and drive the implementation and deployment of new product and services
• Great communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Very good command of English