Chief Product Officer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the product from start to finish, including vision, roadmap, positioning, prototype development, and platform architecture decisions in collaboration with the CTO.

• Acquire and convert initial customers by securing paid pilots, establishing a feedback loop, and transitioning pilots into ongoing managed-service contracts across four targeted verticals.

• Validate the commercial model through pricing strategies and confirmed unit economics, including client costs, margins, and net revenue retention.

• Develop sustainable distribution channels via partner enablement and white-label delivery solutions.

• Recruit and lead the Veris product team effectively.

• Collaborate closely with engineering, delivery, sales, and finance teams.

• Navigate between high-level strategic planning and feedback from pilots, pricing strategies, and channel economics.

• Assist in transforming SmartDev from a traditional IT outsourcing provider into an AI-powered solutions partner.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in product leadership, including senior roles (Head of Product / VP Product / CPO) within B2B SaaS, developer tools, or enterprise software environments.

• Demonstrated success in zero-to-one product development: from concept to prototype, acquiring first paying customers, and establishing repeatable commercialization processes.

• Strong technical knowledge of AI/ML systems, including LLMs, RAG architectures, evaluation, observability, or MLOps/LLMOps.

• Commercial insight into pricing, unit economics, margins, and net revenue retention; adept at presenting data-driven recommendations to a board.

• Experience in distribution channels, including partnerships/reseller channels, supported by tangible channel economics.

• Background in regulated sectors such as finance, legal, healthcare, or compliance-intensive industries.

• Familiarity with managed-service or services-led product models, preferably within or in conjunction with an IT services/outsourcing business.

• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to produce board-level written and verbal English presentations.

• Nice-to-have: practical experience in LLM evaluation/observability, including LLM-as-judge, tracing, CI/CD evaluation pipelines, and hallucination detection.

• Nice-to-have: experience with partner-channel or white-label product initiatives.

• Nice-to-have: previous collaboration with offshore/Vietnam or distributed engineering teams.

• Proficiency in Russian is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the option to work remotely.