IntellaQuest - VP of Product

ASG•Chicago, IL

9d•Onsite

About The Position

IntellaQuest is seeking its first executive Product leader, a Vice President of Product, to join its executive leadership team and report directly to the CEO. This role is responsible for owning product strategy, roadmap, and product management, and will involve building the product function from the ground up. The ideal candidate will establish operating cadences, product processes, customer discovery disciplines, and organizational structures. This role requires partnering closely with Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Implementation to ensure product investments address customer needs and support company growth. The position demands a blend of executive-level strategic thinking and hands-on execution, with a comfort for ambiguity and building organizations from scratch. Regular travel to customers and the engineering team in Skopje, Macedonia, is expected.

Requirements

Have been the senior-most product leader in a B2B SaaS organization, owning product strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and execution through meaningful company growth.
Have built or transformed a Product organization and know how to establish scalable product processes while remaining hands-on when needed.
Have successfully partnered with CEOs and executive leadership teams to shape business strategy and drive company-wide alignment.
Have developed products for complex, operations-driven enterprise customers, ideally in manufacturing, EHS, quality management, supply chain, or adjacent industrial software.
Have successfully built products for upper mid-market or enterprise customers and understand the demands of complex B2B SaaS environments.
Be an exceptional cross-functional leader who can influence Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and executive stakeholders while balancing strategic thinking with decisive execution.
Actively leverage AI to improve both product strategy and your own productivity, applying strong judgment when evaluating AI-generated output and using modern AI tools responsibly.
Possess a proactive, solution-oriented mindset, thrive in ambiguity, and are excited by the opportunity to build an executive Product function from the ground up.

Responsibilities

Own IntellaQuest's product vision, strategy, and roadmap as the company's first executive product leader, partnering directly with the CEO to shape the future of the business.
Build and lead the Product organization from the ground up, establishing product management processes, operating rhythms, KPIs, and hiring the team over time.
Drive company-wide product prioritization, balancing customer needs, commercial opportunities, technical investment, and long-term platform strategy.
Serve as the executive voice of the customer through frequent customer engagement, translating complex manufacturing, quality, and compliance workflows into intuitive software solutions.
Partner as a peer with Engineering leadership to create healthy product and engineering collaboration while ensuring customer outcomes remain at the center of product decisions.
Build strong cross-functional partnerships across Sales, Customer Success, Implementation, and Engineering to align product strategy with company growth objectives.
Recruit, mentor, and develop future Product Managers while remaining hands-on as the company's first product leader.
Shape how AI capabilities are incorporated into both the product roadmap and the way the product organization operates, while leveraging AI tools to accelerate your own effectiveness.