Description
Overview of the Role:
This is a strategic product leadership role designed to serve as the connective tissue across a portfolio of AI-powered products and platform capabilities. Rather than owning a single product roadmap, this leader operates as a portfolio-level orchestrator - ensuring that products built across operating units work together as a coherent system. The role spans cross-cutting domains
including AI/ML functionality, identity and access management, security architecture, and platform processes, with an additional lens on pricing coherence and acquisition target evaluation.
Responsibilities:
Portfolio Alignment:
• Identify misalignments across product teams in AI functionality, identity, security, data architecture, and platform APIs
• Facilitate cross-functional product reviews and governance processes to surface and resolve conflicts before they reach
customers
• Maintain a living map of portfolio capabilities, overlaps, gaps, and interdependencies
Cross-Functional Coordination:
• Apply basic program management rigor to keep alignment workstreams and stakeholder commitments on track
• Serve as a trusted advisor to product GMs and business unit leaders on portfolio-level implications of local roadmap
decisions
• Represent product portfolio coherence in executive and board-level planning conversations
Pricing & Monetization Coherence:
• Partner with pricing, finance, and product leadership to flag inconsistencies or risks in cross-portfolio packaging and pricing
• Advocate for portfolio-level pricing logic without owning pricing decisions directly
M&A Due Diligence & Gap Analysis:
• Conduct structured capability gap assessments against market and competitive benchmarks
• Identify and prioritize acquisition or partnership targets that could address strategic gaps
• Support corporate development with product-side due diligence on inbound and outbound targets
Required Qualifications:
• 8–12 years of experience in product management, product strategy, or a closely related function
• Background at a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or equivalent) strongly preferred — deep
familiarity with how platform ecosystems are architected and governed
• Demonstrated experience working across product lines or in a horizontal/platform PM capacity
• Fluency in identity, security, and AI/ML product domains — engineering depth not required, but technical literacy is essential
• Proven ability to influence without authority — succeeds by building trust and making alignment obvious, not by controlling
resources
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable operating in executive settings
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience supporting or leading M&A; due diligence from the product side is a strong plus
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