VP of Product

AllSpice•San Francisco, CA

4d•$265,000 - $315,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AllSpice is seeking a VP of Product to own the company's product strategy, roadmap, customer insights, product operating system, and product team. This role is crucial for defining a new category in hardware engineering workflows and translating market opportunities into a focused, category-defining product strategy. The ideal candidate will be excited by highly technical products, specialized users, ambiguous markets, and the challenge of simplifying complex hardware development workflows into valuable product experiences. The VP of Product will be a key member of the leadership team, partnering closely with various departments to guide product direction and business strategy. The role involves inheriting a product with strong foundations and passionate customers, while also sharpening product focus, improving prioritization, synthesizing customer input, increasing user adoption, building product observability, and enhancing cross-functional decision-making.

Requirements

8+ years of product management experience, including product leadership experience in a B2B software or hardware technology company.
Experience building products for hardware development, electrical engineering, ECAD, MCAD, PLM, PDM, manufacturing, supply chain, robotics, aerospace, automotive, medical devices, industrial systems, or similarly complex technical engineering workflows.
Experience managing, mentoring, and developing Product Managers.
Demonstrated ability to own product strategy and roadmap for a complex technical product.
Strong customer discovery skills, with experience working directly with highly technical users and enterprise buyers.
Excellent prioritization judgment across customer requests, revenue urgency, technical constraints, and long-term product strategy.
Experience building product operating systems, including planning cadences, roadmap frameworks, product metrics, launch processes, discovery practices, and feedback loops.
Ability to communicate clearly at multiple altitudes, including executive strategy, customer workflow details, and engineering tradeoffs.
Strong product taste and high standards for usability, quality, and customer impact in complex technical products.
Commercial judgment and experience working closely with Sales, Customer Success, or GTM teams to prioritize customer input and support business goals.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure without slowing the company down.

Nice To Haves

Experience building AI-assisted products where accuracy, trust, explainability, and workflow integration matter.
Experience with enterprise deployments, self-hosted products, SOC 2, SSO, security reviews, and complex technical evaluations.
Experience leading product through a platform evolution, major UX reboot, or migration from an inherited technical or product foundation.
Experience representing product strategy in board, investor, or executive planning conversations.
Familiarity with developer tools, collaboration platforms, version control, automation platforms, or CI/CD systems.

Responsibilities

Own product strategy and roadmap, translating company goals into clear product priorities.
Build a roadmap balancing near-term customer needs, enterprise deal requirements, technical investments, and long-term bets.
Create a product planning cadence for Engineering clarity, GTM confidence, and leadership visibility.
Communicate what the company is building, why it matters, who it is for, and how it supports business strategy.
Lead product discovery and customer insight practices, rooted in user research and feedback synthesis.
Spend time with hardware engineers, ECAD admins, engineering managers, executives, technical evaluators, buyers, and internal customer-facing teams.
Synthesize insights from customers, Sales, Customer Experience, Solutions, and Engineering into product decisions.
Partner with GTM to clarify ICP, personas, positioning, launch narratives, and product adoption strategies.
Strengthen the product operating system by improving processes from customer signal to shipped product and adoption measurement.
Evolve product planning, prioritization, roadmap communication, launch, and feedback-loop processes to scale with the company.
Create product metrics and dashboards for activation, adoption, engagement, retention, customer impact, and expansion signals.
Create clear frameworks for prioritizing customer requests, deal blockers, technical investments, usability improvements, and strategic bets.
Ensure roadmap decisions are communicated clearly and consistently across the company.
Manage, mentor, and grow the product team, creating career development paths and operating norms.
Help PMs improve in problem definition, stakeholder management, customer research, roadmap planning, product storytelling, and cross-functional leadership.
Hire and onboard future product leaders who raise the bar for customer empathy, technical fluency, strategic clarity, and execution.
Foster a product culture that is rigorous, collaborative, customer-obsessed, commercially aware, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
Serve as a strategic partner to the leadership team in setting company direction and making executive-level tradeoffs.
Bring product judgment into business decisions, including market focus, customer segmentation, expansion opportunities, and strategic bets.
Partner closely with the CTO and VP of Software to ensure product strategy, technical architecture, and software execution are aligned.
Represent the product perspective in executive planning, board conversations, GTM strategy, hiring plans, and company operating rhythms.