Vice-President Global Product Management

Role And Responsibilities

Reporting to the Chief Technology and Product Officer, the VP, Global Product Management will establish a new product function and discipline at CAE, building the team from the ground up, defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap using a common taxonomy. This is a greenfield opportunity to make a mark at this inflection point in CAE’s history and to play an influential role in driving its enterprise-wide digital transformation, partnering with stakeholders globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a key strategic partner to CAE Business units and verticals to stand up a global product management function. Set the strategy and establish the technology product roadmap and common taxonomy to achieve world-class, data-driven, and innovative solutions that deliver business results for CAE’s customers while building leading-edge technology at scale.
• Communicate the company’s product vision across the organization, serving as a key ambassador and educator of the product strategy and mission to key stakeholders globally.
• Assess the strength of the existing team and build a best-in-class organization of product leaders to drive the development of CAE’s product portfolio to meet our business objectives.
• Partner with the executive management committee to influence go-to-market strategies and delivery teams.
• Foster a culture of innovation by identifying new opportunities, driving experimentation, and staying ahead of industry trends.
• Lead CAE’s product team to define the future business architecture strategies and technology capability models across SaaS & PaaS offerings.
• Serve as a partner to the engineering team to ensure internal alignment and a consistent feedback loop.
• Cultivate an environment that challenges the status quo and promotes a bias for change and action, all the while respecting and celebrating CAE’s company culture. Instill and advance a product culture based on innovation.

Success Factors

• Serve as a change agent and build strong, trusting relationships while educating the organization about the product and digital transformation. Success depends on the ability to drive change, build a team, and accompany CAE’s business units and finance functions along the journey.
• Influence Go-to-Market Strategy and Delivery Teams: Establish a financial view of the portfolio and influence the go-to-market strategy while aligning with the product roadmap. They should also influence delivery teams to ensure they are aligned with the roadmap.
• Establish and deliver product roadmap: Bring together an end-to-end global product roadmap to align with business objectives, position the organization as an integrated group, and efficiently utilize resources.

Experience And Professional Qualifications

The Vice President, Global Product Management will be a proven product leader within the SaaS or PaaS industry who has developed innovative and successful software offerings. Experience with a global, highly-complex organization that evolved from product to service offerings is advantageous. They will have a track record of partnering broadly across multiple stakeholders, and building and leading a motivated, high performing team to successfully deliver and execute on an ambitious product roadmap. The successful candidate will be a strategic visionary and change agent, with the grace, charisma, and influence to drive enterprise-wide digital transformation.

While technical knowledge is important, the ability to understand and influence how product and technology can be harnessed to effectively drive the business of the customers is critical. Specific experience to include, but not be limited to:

• Experience building, scaling and leading high-performing teams made up of product management, product development, and business architecture and driving a highly engaged team culture.
• Experience instituting standards, procedures and methodologies; always looking for areas of improvement and better ways to execute the tasks at hand.
• Experience building highly scalable products, applications and platforms being developed for enterprise customers, preferable within the airline vertical.
• A hands-on, inspirational and active leader and mentor, who values teamwork and is capable of setting clear and measurable expectations for a high performing team; has ability to manage this team across multiple products simultaneously.
• Strong go-to-market execution knowledge, with experience building senior-level relationships with global customers; as well as partnering with sales and marketing to improve sales motion.
• Has lived through a period of rapid transformational growth and served as a change agent to accompany the evolution, ideally in a digital & product-forward organization.
• Knowledgeable in the use of structured project methodologies and/or project planning tools.
• Progressive product experience, having led a modern product management function in a SaaS and / or PaaS environment. Proven track record of developing a best-in class product organization.
• Possesses the ability to drive a strong strategic and technical point of view that challenges the status quo and inspires thoughtful and productive debate. Demonstrated track record of building a culture of excellence and execution in order to deliver on tight deadlines for an ambitious roadmap.
• Ability to lead through influence; successfully inspired teams outside of direct control, with the ability to gain buy-in throughout the organization.

Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.

The masculine form may be used in this job description solely for ease of reading, but refers to men, women and the gender diverse.

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