Chief Product Officer

Overview

The Chief Product Officer (CPO) oversees Hyland’s overall portfolio strategy that delivers upon Hyland’s company vision in alignment with corporate strategy. The CPO will directly impact Hyland's growth by working with key stakeholders across the company to establish:

What you will be doing

The CPO at Hyland has an especially important mission to lead the global product management organization to grow an entire product portfolio that positions the company as a content services market leader with the best-in-class cloud native platform. The CPO will collaborate with teams and stakeholders across the organization to achieve buy-in and maintain alignment with business goals and objectives while also being externally aware of market trends dynamics and insights that will drive innovation influence internal decision making and turn concepts into sustainable products that drive profit.

• Be a strategic partner to the CEO and C-level leaders
• Responsible for the vision of Hyland’s products defining product strategy and product roadmap
• Unlock opportunities to evolve the portfolio through innovation expanding the portfolio’s reach and competitive advantage
• Lead the cross-functional teams within Product Management organization across a wide portfolio of product initiatives – in close partnership with engineering and architecture
• Exhibit a balanced approach to decision making that synthesizes data and market research into a complete picture of the short-term results and long-term impact of product developments; encourage a data-driven culture leveraging business insights
• Ensure the Product organization has the skills that it needs to effectively deliver today's roadmap while also scaling the team's expertise to grow with the company through the transition to a cloud native company
• Analyze and understand the competitive landscape and strategically position the portfolio to protect against threats while identifying new opportunities for expansion. 
• Develop a strong trusted relationship with customers & partners to understand their key challenges and evolve the product offering to solve their challenges and remain their trusted partner
• Help attract and retain diverse high performing teams in multiple functions around the globe including product management product design product operations and product strategy
• Partner with Engineering leadership on allocating resources towards maximizing value creation using a quantitative approach
• Ensure the Product team has frequent and continuous interactions with a broad cross-section of customers researches customers and the market deeply and represents the voice of the customer internally by programmatically socializing learnings and insights
• Responsible for developing product M&A strategy
• Be a compelling “story teller” to translate the features and functions of products and roadmaps into exciting offerings that engage and excite our organization partners customers prospective customers and market influencers
• Oversee all aspects of the product’s progression from original concept through to post-launch success
• Comply with all corporate and departmental privacy and data security policies and practices, including but not limited to, Hyland’s Information Systems Security Policy

You have experience: 

• Developing and demonstrating success with turning vision into strategy by researching evaluating and modeling different strategic options in detail
• Leveraging an extensive product portfolio – comprised of multiple offerings -- to drive opportunities in multiple business segments on a global scale
• Managing an extensive product portfolio through a well-defined product lifecycle to maximize the investment of resources
• Inspiring rallying and engaging the entire company with a powerful well-communicated product strategy and creating excitement in external stakeholders and investors
• Scaling and managing a global Product Management organization at a leading innovative company ideally in a multi-product cloud environment
• Managing performance of product teams with identified metrics as well as by establishing structured coaching and feedback loops typical of a mature high performing culture
• Driving data-driven proficiency (ideation hypotheses testing) in a product team from an industry average level to a world class level
• Managing substantial change effectively and accomplishing major initiatives through outstanding organization planning execution and communication
• Partnering effectively with other key roles in the organization including commercial and finance leadership bringing to life together new options and paths

What will make you successful

Qualifications

• 10 years of Product Management experience with a focus on building and growing Software in the cloud environment
• Proven Product Leadership experience (CPO VP Product Management) including the ability to develop and inspire teams and other VP director-level/ Product Leaders
• Be an expert in making data-driven decisions and adept at building measuring and reporting against fundamental business metrics and experiments
• Ability to envision and define product strategy with prior success in managing a scalable product portfolio with increase in profitability
• Strong communicator with an ability to influence with cross-functional collaboration skills; you’re able to create clarity and drive focus in a complex and dynamic context