About The Position
Banyan Software is building a talent community for ongoing and future Chief Product and Technology Officer opportunities across its portfolio companies. This is not an active requisition. A successful candidate would join a portfolio company directly as a core member of its leadership team, often reporting to the CEO, and serve as the single accountable leader for product and technology at a vertical SaaS business. The CPTO owns product direction, technology strategy, product and engineering organizations, and platform architecture. The role calls for setting product direction through customer and market insight, owning the technical foundation, leading the shift to AI-native product and engineering, and building an organization that can scale while remaining adaptable. The platform serves a specialized industry and provides mission-critical software, so reliability, customer trust, and the strategic value of data are central. The ideal leader combines customer, product, architecture, team, and business perspectives; has led product-led growth in B2B SaaS; uses AI tools in daily work and has changed how teams build and ship with AI; and has led meaningful product and technology transformation. Product and architecture decisions should connect to measurable business outcomes, and the leader should be able to represent product and technology strategy in executive, board, customer, and sales conversations. Banyan describes its operating-company environment as permanent ownership with autonomy, capital, shared services, operating-partner support, a decentralized culture, continuity for company brands and teams, and a peer network of portfolio-company product and technology leaders.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience leading product-led growth in a B2B SaaS business, including ownership of self-serve or product-qualified funnels, in-product onboarding and activation, usage-based expansion, or freemium/trial motions, with measurable outcomes for adoption, conversion, retention, or expansion revenue.
- Accountability for both product management and engineering, unifying product vision and technical execution under one leadership seat.
- Experience shipping AI-embedded product capabilities with measurable customer outcomes and personally using AI tools in daily work.
- Experience leading product and technology transformation, such as replatforming, modernization, AI integration, or product repositioning, while maintaining delivery momentum and customer trust.
- Experience using product analytics and experimentation, with usage data informing activation, conversion, and expansion decisions.
- Ability to connect product and architecture decisions to revenue, retention, margin, and competitive positioning, including build-versus-buy cases suitable for CFO review.
- Experience designing or redesigning data architecture for product analytics, BI, and AI.
- Experience owning SaaS security posture and compliance requirements, such as SOC 2 or industry-specific standards, including managing a real incident.
- Experience building and scaling product and engineering teams, developing people into leaders, and creating a culture of distributed decision-making.
- Experience serving as a CEO's primary product and technology partner and representing product vision in executive, board, customer, and sales conversations.
Responsibilities
- Own product direction, technology strategy, engineering and product organizations, and platform architecture for a vertical SaaS business.
- Set product direction based on customer and market insight.
- Lead the technical foundation and the shift to AI-native product and engineering.
- Build an organization that scales while retaining the ability to adapt to changing market needs.
- Lead product-led growth, including self-serve or product-qualified funnels, onboarding and activation, usage-based expansion, or freemium and trial motions.
- Build product analytics and experimentation into team practices, using usage data to guide roadmap decisions.
- Connect product and architecture decisions to revenue, retention, margin, and competitive positioning, including build-versus-buy decisions.
- Design or redesign data architecture to serve product analytics, business intelligence, and AI as a unified asset.
- Own the SaaS platform's security posture and compliance requirements, including incident management.
- Build and scale product and engineering teams, develop leaders, and enable teams to make decisions autonomously.
- Serve as the CEO's primary product and technology partner and represent product vision in executive, board, customer, and sales conversations.
Benefits
- Permanent ownership and backing, with investment in platform modernization, AI-first product, and product-led growth.
- Autonomy over product strategy, technology stack, team structure, delivery practices, and AI strategy.
- Access to capital, shared services, and a network of operating partners.
- A collaborative, decentralized culture that preserves each company's entrepreneurial spirit.
- Continuity for acquired companies' brands, identities, cultures, employees, and customers.
- A peer network of portfolio-company product and technology leaders.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
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