Vice President of Product Management

Core Sound Imaging•Raleigh, NC

About The Position

The Vice President of Product Management serves as the strategic bridge between company vision and customer value creation, ensuring every product investment drives measurable business outcomes. This high-impact leadership role is responsible for leading product strategy, focusing on scaling the platform and building a world-class product organization. The VP will balance long-term strategic bets with short-term performance targets, shifting the organization from just releasing things to releasing the right things in the right way to create a scalable, best practice solution.

Requirements

10+ years in Product Management or Strategy leadership, with at least 5 years managing high-performing teams and multi-product portfolios ($20M+ ARR) in healthcare SaaS industry.
Deep understanding of the agile product lifecycle.
Familiarity with healthcare-specific regulations (HIPAA) and interoperability standards like HL7 and FHIR. Healthcare PACS/Imaging experience is optimal.
Proven ability to use metric-driven frameworks (e.g., RICE scoring) to make high-stakes trade-offs between speed, quality, and technical debt with a demonstrated ability to produce cost/benefit analysis around development points and measure success post launch.
Strong mentorship skills for developing senior product leaders and a "rolling up your sleeves" mindset to set an example for the team.
Must have the ability to design and deploy AI-powered workflows that perform reliably, and the judgment to know when an AI solution is the wrong tool for a given problem.
Must have experience developing and deploying AI projects and/or agents to streamline business operations.
Must be comfortable in Python, SQL, and API-based integrations. Low-code and no-code tools are valuable accelerators, not substitutes for engineering fundamentals.
Must build with the end user in mind.
Must take accountability for what gets built and how it performs.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with or alongside customer success or support teams in a B2B SaaS environment, with an understanding of the workflows this role will be automating.
Familiarity with healthcare data standards and regulations, including HIPAA, HITECH, and SOC 2, and their operational implications for systems that touch customer data.
Awareness of DICOM, HL7, or radiology workflow environments. You do not need to be a clinical expert, but knowing the vocabulary of our customers’ world is a real advantage.
Prior experience with Superblocks, Claude Code or similar development tooling for high-velocity production work.

Responsibilities

Partner with the executive team, internal stakeholders, customers, and lead market research to define and evolve the overall product roadmap, ensuring alignment between product vision and the company’s broader mission and financial objectives. Meet with key customers regularly to provide an update on the company’s product vision and decision making.
Drive the productization of Artificial Intelligence models, focusing on delivering high-quality AI products that provide financial impact and delightful customer experiences. Mandate the use of AI tools and agentic workflows to accelerate discovery, prototyping, and delivery.
Improve decision velocity, while focusing on outlining best practice product requirements and leverage customer testing to ensure the correct features are built the correct way. Scope from MVP all the way to fully mature product and outline the steps, releases it takes to get there.
Launch new products in a way to bring along the entire organization in a unified strategy. Utilize product usage data to identify Product-Qualified Leads (PQLs), allowing sales teams to prioritize high-value opportunities.
Understand what decisions, features, etc. are required to stay ahead of key market competitors as well as compete against new ones in new segments of the market.
Navigate the complex landscape of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), ensuring products adhere to international standards IS 13485, GDPR, and 27001. Accelerate regulatory readiness by embedding compliance artifacts and automated traceability directly into sprint deliverables.
Manage a multi-product portfolio by balancing resource allocation across core optimization, adjacent growth opportunities, and transformational innovation bets.
Communicate complex product strategies and outcomes to the CEO, Executive peers, and Board members using business language centered on revenue growth, risk mitigation, and competitive advantage.