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About the role
- VP Product Innovation creating and scaling AI-enabled software products for higher education institutions. Building new ventures, innovation pipelines, and agentic product-development practices.
Responsibilities
- Identify, validate, and launch innovative software products addressing emerging challenges and opportunities in higher education
- Lead customer discovery, market research, and rapid experimentation
- Build and test MVPs, prototypes, and pilot programs
- Define business models, pricing strategies, and go-to-market approaches
- Transition validated concepts into scalable businesses with Product, Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
- Develop and manage an innovation portfolio
- Foster experimentation, learning, innovation, and responsible AI adoption
- Define and champion the vision for AI-enabled and agentic product development
- Establish AI best practices across the product lifecycle
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and improve product-team operations
- Develop frameworks, playbooks, governance models, and adoption strategies for responsible AI implementation
- Embed AI-native practices into product development workflows
- Measure and improve AI-enabled practices' impact on customer outcomes, delivery speed, and organizational effectiveness
- Influence company strategy through innovation insights, customer feedback, and emerging market opportunities
- Communicate vision, strategy, business cases, and outcomes to executive leadership and stakeholders
- Build cross-departmental alignment for innovation initiatives and organizational transformation
- Serve as a thought leader on AI, product innovation, and emerging technology trends
- Launch three or more new product experiments within the first 12–24 months
- Create a repeatable innovation pipeline from idea to commercialization
- Generate new revenue streams and improve speed-to-market and customer value realization
Requirements
- Proven experience leading software products from concept through customer validation, commercial launch, and post-launch scaling
- Experience building and managing innovation portfolios, product incubators, or venture-style product development initiatives
- Demonstrated success delivering revenue-generating software products, including business model development, pricing strategy, and go-to-market execution
- Deep understanding of artificial intelligence technologies and their application to software product development
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools and agentic workflows to accelerate product development and decision-making
- Strong executive presence and communication skills with the ability to influence strategy and organizational change
- Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous, and rapidly evolving environments
- 10+ years of progressive product leadership experience within a software organization
- Experience leading cross-functional teams, major product launches, and strategic initiatives
- MBA or advanced business degree (preferred)
- Experience in higher education, education technology, SaaS, or other complex B2B software markets (preferred)
- Experience scaling AI-enabled product organizations (preferred)
- Track record of launching net-new businesses, platforms, or product categories (preferred)
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- Interview-process accommodation support
- Role open to candidates in the United States and Canada
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