VP, Product Management

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

• Product Vision, Strategy but also Extremely Sharp Execution: Sets the vision and strategy for Performance Engineering suite and its products proactively across the lifecycles with a "hands on" mentality collaborating with R&D, and the field teams. Candidate must always seek to align his/her vision to the overall goals and objectives, as well as financial strategies, of the organization.
• Product Strategy: Responsible for the agile roadmap for the product life cycle/s (ideation and formation through execution), specifying the positioning, pricing, differentiation, market competition strategy, and definable value and proof points along each product life cycle and as a suite.
• Customer Engagement: Deeply understands the challenges, needs and desires of the customer solution that is required to maximize value creation and build excellent product experience. Candidate must think and act in a customer-centric manner and have experience in leading customer advisories and innovation clubs for seeking customer input and feedback and in co-innovating with customers.
• Transform: Provide transformational leadership supporting a growing and evolving solutions-based commercial and sales organization, enabling the organization to successfully beat the competition with differentiated product innovations in a market that clients demand actual success with the solutions they purchase.
• People Leadership: This person must be a true leader who is truly comfortable leading from the front but also by example and ensuring to work hard and in such a way that the employees and staff truly want to follow this leader. The candidate will be responsible for hiring, coaching, and retaining top talent and they will also be responsible for ensuring a best-in-class organization that continuously attracts and retains talent.

Competencies

• Execution Focused: This person knows how to get things done but also has the grit and resilience to drive execution and is known to have a healthy "hands on" manner about them. Pays close attention to detail, and monitors progress consistently well and does not suffer
• Outcome Orientation: This individual will be energized by a challenge and will stretch her/his team to achieve beyond what is expected, even under adverse circumstances. The candidate will have demonstrated his/her ability to successfully introduce new products/services to market within a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment in a manner that is timely, cost-effective, and fully meets the needs of the target segment. This individual will have a proven track record as a decisive, action-oriented individual, who has led a business to superior performance through a thoughtful and balanced mix of creativity, strategy, and execution.
• Strategic Orientation: The successful candidate will be able to clearly identify and articulate evolving priorities for the business and frame business strategies and strategic direction for his/her area of business. The ideal candidate will have a track record of bringing highly strategic and well-researched products and services to market and will have demonstrated an ability to marshal intensive market analysis, immediate customer feedback, and competitive analysis to drive solution development. This analytic and intellectually curious approach will be complemented by a well-honed intuition for spotting unmet market needs.
• Collaborating and Influencing: The successful candidate will communicate with conviction and clarity, whether working with the senior executive team, internal organizations, or customers. While the individual will not hesitate to take bold action when appropriate, he/she will have a natural inclination toward leading through collaboration and seek input and buy-in from key players across the company and his/her team. He/she will also demonstrate the personal flexibility to adapt to proven corporate philosophies and practices, as well as contribute new, innovative thinking.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferred, MBA a plus. Background in process engineering and optimization will be an added advantage.
• 10-15+ years of progressive product-centric technology leadership, including a demonstrated record of success in bringing products from early-stage development to market launch.
• Solid understanding of AI and cloud-based technologies/platforms and modern cloud interfaces is important.
• Experience in communicating product vision and prospective road maps to ownership, clients, and team members alike.
• Deep understanding of the process industry customer needs related to process engineering, process optimization and engineering support to operations. Experience in Performance Engineering products is a plus.
• Deep functional understanding of product management systems and methodologies; experience managing and scaling a high performing product management team.
• Strong external communication skills to engage with customers and prospects as part of product planning and support efforts. These skills will also be critical as the VP of Product Management will be expected to present at major conferences and events.
• Able to contribute to broader business planning discussions at the executive team level.
• Ability to quickly, conceptually understand how our solutions integrate into a customer's technology stack, and the ability to monetize for revenue growth.
• Proven ability to analyze reports, dashboards, and other tools to make critical decisions and recommendations to help the company to achieve its goals. Strong analytical skills.