VP Product

Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for a VP Product.

Job Description:

Job Title: VP Product

Job Type: FTE

Job Location: Palo Alto

Work Schedule: Hybrid, 3 days a week.

Salary: $180k - 200k

About the role

The VP Product role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to pioneer the application of generative AI to disrupt the $105bn end-to-end digital assurance & software quality management market and pioneer QA-centric code generation. Client taps the unique strengths of generative AI to offer a compelling alternative to traditional test automation methods by capturing quality assurance right from the definition of software requirements. The successful leader will lead this generative AI driven disruption in a large addressable market and empower innovative customers & partners to embrace this new technology within their DevOps & software development processes. The initial focus on digital assurance for data applications provides the company the necessary growth impetus.

Responsibilities

• Drive Client product vision, direction, and business plans, including product plans/roadmaps, product evolution and product lifecycle.
• Lead the design of the product’s disruptive quality assurance approach for both code generation and traditional development.
• Derive measures to quantify the product’s accuracy, success, business ROI and device strategies to deliver customer delight. This includes developing business cases, identifying and assessing business opportunities and determining strategic fit conditioned by technical feasibility.
• Identify, develop, and manage relationships with strategic partners like data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, Google, Azure, AWS etc.) and testing service providers, including joint solutions and projects.
• Gather, validate, and evaluate product and market requirements through market and customer research, competitive and product research.
• Develop functional specifications for assigned product features to include effective product and user interface design, rapid prototyping, product validation testing, and usability testing, while ensuring that the product strategy is adhered to throughout the product life cycle.
• Drive the pricing and cross functional requirements (sales, channels, services and marketing) in order to bring offer(s) to market.
• Work very closely with engineering to drive disruptive innovation and development prioritization at the fast pace of an early-stage startup.
• Represent Client in industry-wide forums.

About You:

• You have deep domain, and hands-on technical knowledge in modern DevOps (e.g. Atlassian) and testing tools/frameworks.
• You have experience with one or more of cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, Azure etc.)
• You have deep experience with the organization and processes in DevOps, rapid release cycles and agile methodologies.
• You have an engineering background with familiarity of trends in cloud native, and agile tooling applications.
• You have familiarity with application interfaces of cloud data platforms and observability tools (e.g. Datadog, Splunk etc.).
• Exposure to LLM-driven code generation is very desirable.
• Exposure to test methodologies like behavior-driven design and/or machine learning/AI is very desirable.
• You have passion for creating customer value by applying cutting edge innovations in data science & technology.
• You have a track record of bringing disruptive technologies to market.
• You can rally developer communities with excitement around new capabilities and business models driven by technology disruptions.
• You have a deep understanding of machine learning and data processing technologies.

About Maxonic:

Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients.

Interested in Applying?

Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Lavanya Dommeti (lavanya.d@maxonic.com / (510) 613-4997) for more details.