Head of Product

Description

AIAEC is hiring a Head of Product to lead the strategy, development, commercialization and growth of our SaaS portfolio: current and future products.

We want more than a roadmap manager. We’re looking for a product leader who has taken technology products from idea and discovery through launch, adoption and commercial scale. You’ll lead our Product Owners and UI/UX team, partner closely with Engineering, QA, Support, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing and executive leadership, and make sure AIAEC focuses on the opportunities that matter most to customers and the business.

This role calls for strong product judgment. You’ll guide prioritization, weigh competing opportunities, and direct product and engineering capacity toward the initiatives with the greatest potential for customer adoption, usability and market impact.

You’ll translate company strategy and market opportunities into clear product strategies, roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Working within AIAEC’s established operating model and product development framework, you’ll drive disciplined execution across the full product lifecycle and help evolve product management practices, standards and tools as we scale.

• Set the vision, strategy and roadmap for each product based on company goals, market opportunities and customer needs.
• Prioritize across the portfolio when multiple products compete for product and engineering capacity.
• Evaluate new products, features, integrations and markets, and make sure major investments are backed by customer, market and business evidence.
• Assess product and feature readiness before major releases, and partner with the COO and executive team on product direction.

• Lead discovery through customer interviews, market and competitive research, workflow analysis and usage data.
• Define problems clearly and assess opportunities before committing significant development resources.
• Gather and synthesize feedback from Customer Success, Sales, Support, pilots and production customers.
• Validate problems and ideas through prototypes, usability tests and experiments, and track product-market fit.

• Lead execution across the full lifecycle:
  Idea ? Discovery ? Validation ? Prioritization ? Roadmap ? Backlog ? Development ? Release ? Adoption ? Feedback ? Improvement.
• Turn validated needs into clear requirements, and keep each piece of work traceable to the customer problem it solves.
• Work with Engineering on sequencing, feasibility and delivery. Product owns the what and why;
  Engineering owns the how.
• Make sure releases meet acceptance, usability and readiness standards, and that post-launch learnings shape future priorities.

• Partner with Sales, Marketing and Customer Success on personas, ICP, positioning and differentiation.
• Support pricing and packaging discussions, and lead launch and go-to-market readiness planning.
• Help translate product capabilities into clear customer value for Sales and Marketing.
• Track adoption after launch, remove friction, and keep all teams aligned on product capabilities and roadmap direction.

• Improve usability, workflows, consistency, engagement and satisfaction across web and mobile products.
• Work with UI/UX, Engineering, Security and Compliance to bring accessibility requirements into product planning.
• Build accessibility into design and development from the start, including WCAG, ADA digital accessibility, accessibility testing and VPAT requirements for public-sector and enterprise customers.

• Lead, coach and develop the Product Owners and UI/UX professionals who report to you, with clear…