VP, Portfolio Product Management

Summary

Join BlueCat, a leader in Intelligent Network Operations, as their Head of Portfolio Product Management. This senior individual contributor role, with potential team leadership, focuses on driving key initiatives across the product portfolio and expanding into new network and security categories. You will be responsible for portfolio strategy, M&A, AI strategy, pricing, packaging, licensing, OEM relationships, and public cloud marketplaces. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in product management and corporate strategy within on-prem and SaaS companies, delivering network management and security solutions to enterprise clients. BlueCat offers a comprehensive benefits package focused on health, financial well-being, and overall wellness, including professional development, wellness days, a lifestyle spending account, and an employee recognition program. The company boasts an award-winning culture and is committed to inclusion and diversity.

Requirements

• 15+ years in product management – both organic, partnering and acquisitions
• 10+ years managing senior individual contributors and other leads/managers
• Worked at C-level or reported to C-level in an organization of $100M+ in revenue
• Mixture of small company (<$100M) and large company (>$1B) experience

Responsibilities

• Drive portfolio planning and resource investment rationale across a broad portfolio of products and alignment with other company execs in finance, sales, professional services and support
• Establishing a corporate pricing and packaging strategy, including product led growth
• Drive key use-case/technology initiatives (e.g. SaaS, AI, Platforms, etc) across multiple product lines
• Driving requirements and building enterprise infrastructure software products and services
• Developing strategic plans to accomplish technical as well as business objectives with product management, exec leadership and your team members
• Coaching, mentoring and developing best talent

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• Computer Science or Engineering background
• Corporate strategy and M&A experience
• Rationalizing complex, disparate pricing models into a rationale strategy
• Onboarding products to public cloud marketplace
• Instituting a product-led-growth initiative
• Prior career experience working at a DDI or Network Observability/Performance Mgt company

Benefits

• A Professional Development Budget
• Dedicated Wellness Days and Wellness Week
• A Lifestyle Spending Account
• An Employee Recognition Program