VP Product Strategy

MARKT-PILOT GmbH•Chicago, IL

92d•Hybrid

About The Position

As VP Product Strategy, you will act as the strategic bridge between customers, product development, and market innovation. You will translate real-world pricing challenges and market insights into product strategy and help shape how our platform evolves into a category-defining solution for Pricing Performance. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and customers, you will turn vision into scalable, customer-validated capabilities.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in pricing, product strategy, commercial transformation, or enterprise software leadership within B2B environments.
Deep knowledge of industrial pricing, aftermarket business models, pricing workflows, governance, and adoption challenges.
Ability to translate complex customer pain points into scalable product strategies and business-relevant software capabilities.
Comfortable engaging senior commercial and operational leaders and leading high-impact strategic discussions.
Understanding of enterprise ecosystems including ERP, CRM, CPQ, analytics, and pricing technologies.
Experience working closely with product and engineering teams to bring ideas from concept to scalable solutions.
Track record of building customer advisory programs, co-creation models, or product communities.
Excellence in collaborating across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success to drive alignment and outcomes.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve product strategy: Shape the strategic direction of our platform, translating customer challenges, market dynamics, and emerging trends into actionable roadmap priorities.
Identify and unlock growth opportunities: Expand the platform vision across the aftermarket ecosystem, including services, lifecycle pricing, and commercial performance analytics.
Act as the voice of the customer: Engage directly with customers and prospects to deeply understand pricing workflows and ensure product decisions reflect real operational needs and measurable value.
Drive product co-creation: Partner closely with engineering and solution engineering to translate customer insights into prototypes, experiments, and scalable product capabilities.
Establish feedback and innovation loops: Build structured co-creation models including design partners, beta programs, and advisory feedback cycles to accelerate validation and learning.
Lead customer advisory initiatives: Own and develop the Customer Advisory Council to shape roadmap direction and strengthen strategic customer relationships.
Build a product community: Foster peer exchange, shared learning, and product evangelism through a strong network of engaged customers.
Shape a new category: Help define and establish the Pricing Performance category, positioning our platform as a modern alternative to legacy pricing systems.
Represent Markt-Pilot externally: Act as a thought leader in industry events, customer forums, and strategic discussions with senior stakeholders.