Cayuse - VP of Product Management

Remote - USA *3w ago

Remote Vp NA Software Higher Education VP of Product B2B Team Management Market Research Reporting ARR

Requirements

• 8+ years of B2B product management experience, including experience leading and managing a team of product managers. • Proven experience defining and executing product strategy across a multi-platform or multi-product portfolio at a B2B SaaS company. • Skilled at working within Agile environments across distributed teams. • Experience with platform migrations, product consolidations, or modernization efforts, and an understanding of the customer, commercial, and technical dynamics involved. • Strong track record of setting roadmap priorities based on customer needs, business impact, and technical feasibility. • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and driving alignment across teams you don’t directly control. • Excellent communication and facilitation skills. You can lead a customer conversation or an executive roadmap review with equal confidence. • Experience in research administration, higher education, or grants and award management software. • Familiarity with the sponsored project lifecycle: proposals, awards, agreements, and financial compliance. • Experience at a PE-backed company with ARR-oriented reporting expectations. • Working fluency with AI tools to accelerate discovery synthesis, roadmap planning, and competitive analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and multi-year roadmap for the Award Management suite, aligned to company strategy and growth goals. • Build, lead, and develop a team of product managers, setting goals, coaching performance, and growing talent within the function. • Define and execute a multi-platform strategy across the Award Management portfolio, sequencing investment across products that serve different stages of the sponsored project lifecycle. • Partner with engineering leadership to plan platform migrations, consolidations, and modernization work, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health. • Represent the Award Management strategy and roadmap to the executive team and other stakeholders, and contribute to company-level product and portfolio planning. • Partner with sales, marketing, and customer success on packaging, pricing, and go-to-market readiness for the portfolio. • Lead customer and market discovery across research institutions to validate strategic bets and surface unmet needs. • Champion Agile practices across the product management team and holds the group accountable to consistent, high-quality execution. • Serve as the voice of the customer within Cayuse, ensuring product decisions reflect the needs of research administrators and institutional leaders.

Benefits

• Competitive Medical Benefits (PPO + HSA available) • Vision, Dental, Short-Term Disability fully covered by Cayuse • Unlimited PTO + Holidays + Flexible Work Schedule • Remote Work Stipend • Equal Paid Parental Leave • 401k with Employer Matching • Quarterly Wellness Reimbursement • Remote Work Environment, supporting the Ultimate Employee Experience • Cayuse does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or any Cayuse employees. Cayuse is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.