- Own Code Metal's product strategy, organization, and operating model
- Define product strategy and investment priorities for Code Metal's platform
- Own the direction and evolution of the core product platform and its roadmap
- Identify customer problems with Engineering, develop and validate products, and take them from concept through launch and adoption
- Establish a disciplined customer-discovery process for engineering-led customers
- Make product and engineering tradeoffs across customer commitments, platform investments, technical debt, and strategic opportunities
- Determine product packaging, positioning, and commercialization
- Partner with Growth and Sales on product narratives, use cases, demonstrations, competitive positioning, and technical enablement
- Participate in strategic customer conversations and support Sales with customer requirements and product value
- Serve as the primary product counterpart to Engineering and technical leadership
- Build a high-leverage, technically credible, high-output Product organization
- Report directly to the CEO and work with technical leadership on product direction and sequencing
Requirements
- 10+ years of B2B technology sales experience
- 5+ years leading scaled Product organizations
- Experience building products from deeply technical foundational technology
- Ability to operate with ambiguity, incomplete information, and an immature organizational structure
- Highly technical product executive able to understand complex technical systems
- Comfortable personally conducting customer discovery, writing product strategy, pressure-testing requirements, supporting strategic deals, and driving prioritization
- Strong product judgment to distinguish customer requests, repeatable product needs, and strategic platform investments
- Commercial mindset, including product packaging, selling, and communicating technology
- Ability to make difficult prioritization decisions and reject work outside the broader product strategy
- Collaborative across Engineering, Growth, Sales, Solutions, and forward-deployed teams
- Experience taking a deeply technical product from ground zero to market
- Experience partnering with Sales to commercialize products and participating directly in customer conversations
- Experience working with deeply technical engineering organizations and earning credibility with engineers, architects, and technical founders
- Experience translating emerging technical capabilities into repeatedly sold and deployed products rather than bespoke solutions
- Experience establishing product-market fit
- Experience building products for developers, engineers, security teams, infrastructure teams, or other highly technical users is ideally desired
- U.S. work authorization
- U.S. security clearance eligibility may be required for certain assignments
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in product strategy, technical product development, and customer discovery processes, with a strong focus on B2B technology markets. Proven ability to lead product organizations, prioritize investments, and collaborate effectively with engineering and sales teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- 10+ Years B2B Technology Sales Experience
- 5+ Years Leading Scaled Product Organizations
- Experience Building Products from Technical Foundations
- Strong Product Judgment
- Experience Establishing Product-Market Fit
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- Product Strategy
- Technical Product Development
- Customer Discovery
- Product Packaging
- Commercialization
- Prioritization Decisions
- Technical Systems Understanding
- Product Roadmap Development
- Market Launch
- Product Value Communication
Soft Skills
- Collaboration
- Comfort with Ambiguity
- Strong Judgment
- Communication Skills
- Leadership
Certifications & Qualifications
- U.S. Work Authorization
- U.S. Security Clearance Eligibility
Industry Keywords
- B2B Technology
- Product-Market Fit
- Engineering Collaboration
- Technical Credibility
- Customer Conversations
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