VP of Product

Who We Are

Cognism is a leader in international sales intelligence, setting a new standard for data quality and compliance, trusted by 2000 revenue teams worldwide. Cognism helps businesses connect with their dream prospects by providing premium contact, company and event information, including firmographics, technographics, sales trigger events, intent data, verified business emails and phone-verified mobile numbers.

Next level GDPR & CCPA compliance, combined with innovative technology and integrations with leading CRM and sales engagement partners, make Cognism the number one choice for businesses looking to create a predictable pipeline, find their next best business opportunity and overcome global compliance barriers.

For more information on Cognism's intuitive sales intelligence platform powered by world-leading data, compliance and targeting, please visit www.cognism.com.

Who You Are

You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with fellow product managers, marketers, sales, engineers, executives, and inspire them to do their best.

You relentlessly strive to excel in your craft. You are an expert in Product Management planning and processes. You strive to ensure your teams have the tools and information they need to build the best products possible and make prioritization decisions. You believe your role is to guide not to decide.

You are driven to deliver the most compelling roadmap for your current customers, prospects, and the market. You look at every interaction as an opportunity to learn. You aren't afraid to ask questions. You have the humility and confidence.

In this role you will lead the product and technical communications teams for the Cognism platform. This is a pivotal role that will encompass annual and quarterly planning roadmap planning, assurance of roadmap to objectives and goals, mentoring and growing product managers careers, and ensuring a best in class help center to support our PLG growth.

What You Will Do

• Manage the Product Organization which includes the product management team and the technical communications team.
• Deliver an annual Big Rocks roadmap and a rolling 6 month roadmap planned quarterly for the Cognism Platform
• Manage the quarterly and annual roadmap planning processes
• Coach a team of product managers on the ongoing production and refinement of requirements documents and other deliverables
• Hire, on-board, mentor, and grow the product management and documentation teams and ensure future scale in the Product Organization
• Articulate the benefits of new features and the future direction of the platform and solutions to customers and partners
• Evangelize products and become the subject matter expert for internal audiences, external customers, and market-facing communications
• Collaborate with Engineering Leadership to ensure appropriate resourcing needs to meet product goals
• Drive cross organizational initiatives for Cognism around platform adoption, roadmap adoption, and feedback.
• Work with Product Operations to ensure product and documentation are leveraging available tools and processes fully.

Requirements

• 12 years of experience in Product Management
• 7 years of progressive leadership experience with varying organizational sizes
• 5 Years experience in dynamic SaaS delivery with PLG growth in B2B environments is a must-have
• Proven track record guiding product teams in fast-paced software development environments.
• Proven people leader focused on empowering teams and helping individuals achieve professional goals
• Strong grasp of Agile/Scrum methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience in bringing creative ideas and proposals to development teams and executives supported by qualitative justification and quantitative analysis
• Represent our company and team with excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Ideally a Bachelors degree in management, business, computer science or other related field.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on the level of experience
• 25 days' holiday PLUS all the usual public holidays
• Flexible working hours, with the ability to work from home
• Work with the latest technology paradigms
• Access to education opportunities (books, courses, seminars, conferences)
• Access to Cognism's Employee Assistance Programme with Health Assured
• Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
• Remote Workouts and Social activities

No visa sponsorship is available for this position