VP & GM – Product Platform

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the strategy, roadmap, and business performance for the Entersekt Platform, which encompasses Portal, Administration, Reporting, and Detection & Decisioning capabilities.

• Establish the product vision for these components and future additions as reusable building blocks instead of isolated products.

• Collaborate with Pier GMs to implement adoption strategies and set targets for each component across the entire portfolio of solutions.

• Recognize evolving requirements that can be addressed through reusable platform components.

• Eliminate technical debt, integration challenges, packaging/pricing obstacles, and awareness issues that hinder adoption.

• Create an internal go-to-market strategy for the platform, which includes enablement, documentation, migration support, and success stories.

• Balance roadmap decisions by addressing the competing needs of various consuming product lines.

• Oversee the platform’s cost, investment, and value-capture model.

• Define and monitor component health metrics, such as usage, reliability, performance, and satisfaction.

• Build and lead product management, and potentially design/engineering partnerships, for the three components.

• Represent the Platform in executive and portfolio planning discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Commerce, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience is required.

• A postgraduate qualification such as an MBA, Master’s degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent executive/business education is preferred.

• Over 10 years of experience in Product Management, Product Leadership, or a related technology product field, with substantial experience in a senior product leadership position.

• Proven track record of owning product strategy, roadmaps, and business performance for complex B2B technology, SaaS, or platform products.

• Demonstrated experience in building or scaling platform products/shared capabilities utilized by multiple products, solutions, or product teams.

• Strong history of driving platform adoption and measurable usage, including identifying and mitigating technical, integration, commercial, and organizational barriers to adoption.

• Experience in balancing the competing needs of various product lines and making transparent decisions regarding roadmap, investment, and prioritization trade-offs.

• Experience in developing business cases, investment models, and value-capture approaches, with strong commercial and financial acumen.

• Experience in defining and managing product health and performance metrics that encompass adoption, usage, reliability, performance, and stakeholder/customer satisfaction.

• Proven experience in collaborating closely with Engineering and technical leadership on architecture, integration, technical debt, and platform scalability decisions.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior and executive stakeholders across functions, achieving alignment without direct authority.

• Proven experience in people leadership, including building, developing, and leading product teams while holding them accountable for results.

• A strategic and systems-oriented mindset.

• An influential and collaborative working style.

• Commercially pragmatic decision-making capabilities.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and make clear trade-offs.

• Openness to challenge and feedback, coupled with confidence in making difficult decisions.

• Clear and transparent communication skills.

• An outcome-focused mindset.

• A strong sense of accountability and dependability.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours

• Remote work options

• Abundant opportunities for growth

• Exposure to cutting-edge technology

• Colleagues who are experts in their respective fields

• A fantastic working environment