Vice President of Product, Showpad
2 days a week in office
Sales enablement platform for sales content, training and coaching
Open for applications
Sales enablement platform for sales content, training and coaching
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Showpad's mission is to empower sales and marketing to sell the way buyers want to buy.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record in senior Product Management leadership roles within a B2B SaaS environment
- Extensive experience leading multi-functional product organizations and driving long-term strategic outcomes
- Demonstrated success in influencing company-wide strategy and delivering measurable business impact
- Proven track record for delivering on Key Performance Outcomes in previous roles
- Assembled a new, or grown an existing team of product managers towards a high-performing level under your purview
- Experience influencing at the executive and board levels
- Exceptional strategic thinking, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and solve complex, abstract challenges
- Strong organizational and analytical skills, excellent written and oral communication skills
- Deep understanding of product management practices, market research, customer empathy, and data-driven decision-making
- The ability to write clear product specifications, build wireframes, conduct customer interviews and perform market research independently
- Proven ability to inspire and align cross-functional teams toward shared objectives
What the job involves
- As the VP of Product, you will serve as a pivotal leader shaping the overarching strategy, vision, and direction of the product organization
- You will oversee multiple product lines, ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving innovation that anticipates and exceeds market needs
- This role involves collaborating with executive leadership to establish company-wide policies, practices, and long-term strategies that position the organization as a market leader
- You will lead the entire Product Management organization, guiding Directors and their teams to success
- Reporting directly to the VP of Product and Engineering, you will act as a key contributor to the Executive Leadership Team and provide critical insights that influence organizational strategy and decision-making
- On a daily basis, you will engage with cross-functional executives, senior stakeholders, and key customers, balancing abstract ideas with practical solutions that drive long-term success
- You’ll lead and coach the Product leadership team, which consists of 1 Director of Product, Group Product Manager, and Lead Project Manager 3 Product Directors
- You’ll regularly attend extended P&T Staff meetings, and interact frequently with Engineering Managers, C-suite executives, GTM leadership and key customer accounts
- Define and communicate the multi-year product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with company-wide goals and market opportunities
- Oversee the development of roadmaps and frameworks that prioritize innovation, growth, and profitability across all product lines
- Partner with executive leadership to influence policy-making and steer long-term corporate strategy
- Build strong relationships with engineering, design, marketing, and sales leadership to ensure cohesive product development and go-to-market execution
- Act as the primary voice of the customer, advocating for solutions that enhance customer satisfaction and drive business outcomes
- Represent the company’s product strategy to key customers, partners, and industry analysts
- Lead and mentor a team consisting of a Director, Group Product Manager, and Lead Product Manager, fostering a high-performance, inclusive culture across the Product Management organization
- Build and scale the team by attracting and developing top talent and promoting professional growth
- Implement processes that improve organizational effectiveness, ensuring data-driven decision-making and efficient resource allocation
- Stay ahead of market trends, emerging technologies, and competitive dynamics to guide product differentiation and market leadership
- Drive innovation by identifying opportunities to expand offerings, improve customer outcomes, and create new revenue streams
- Establish and own functional-level OKRs, ensuring the alignment of objectives with broader company goals
- Monitor and improve key performance indicators such as NPS, churn, customer lifetime value, and product profitability
- Balance strategic investments with short-term operational efficiency to drive sustained company performance
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sales teams have always used tech solutions to help improve how they source leads, develop relationships and close deals.
Showpad believes they're part of the fourth pillar of the technology marketing stack: storage (the cloud services where you keep all your data), CRM, marketing automation and sales enablement. The first three help manage a salesperson's activities, while sales enablement helps them to be more effective.
Their technology allows employees to share sales collateral with each other. The material and its link to successful sales becomes part of how Showpad “learns” what works and what doesn’t, enabling them to suggest materials for a specific sales effort.
Showpad has ties to companies in over 50 countries, and in 2023 released its Enablement Operating System product for its preexisting customers. This first of its kind analytics and insights dashboard exemplifies how at more than a decade old, Showpad is still at the forefront of the marketing software sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2019
$70m
SERIES D
Jan 2018
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $155.5m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- 26 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
Company HQ
Ghent, Flanders
Leadership
Pieterjan Bouten
(Executive Chairman)Prior to Showpad, was head of Business Development for Netlog (online community, then acquired by Meetic). Left Showpad CEO position in early 2022.
Peter Minne
(Co-founder)8 years of experience a developer, including projects for MTV Europe and Hewlett Packard
Louis Jonckheere
(Co-Founder & Executive Board Member)Partnerships Manager at Netlog, where they met Pieterjan.
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