VP, Head of Digital Product Engineering

Role overview

Lead commercial growth and market strategy for a digital product engineering practice, shaping custom products for clients whose needs are not met by off-the-shelf platforms. The work combines executive client relationships, product and technology solutioning, and oversight of active engagements; roughly half to 70% of the role is focused externally on clients and growth.

Responsibilities

- Set the practice’s growth strategy and contribute to revenue and margin performance. - Develop senior client relationships, expand existing accounts, and pursue new opportunities. - Lead discovery, product strategy, and solution design, turning business needs into viable proposals and roadmaps. - Support pitches, proposals, business cases, demonstrations, and other pre-sales work. - Shape custom solutions using product development, cloud-native engineering, and applied AI approaches. - Provide executive oversight of engagements and represent the practice in market conversations and events.

Requirements

- A background that combines engineering credibility with product, consulting, and commercial leadership. - Ability to engage in architecture and engineering discussions as well as strategic conversations with senior business and technology leaders. - Experience identifying client needs and translating them into differentiated, measurable product solutions. - Working understanding of applied AI, cloud-native engineering, composable architecture, full-stack development, DevOps, and modern product practices. - Executive communication skills, commercial judgment, and ability to influence without direct day-to-day delivery or people-management responsibility.

Benefits and work setup

- Open to candidates in the United States. Remote work is available outside commuting distance of designated offices; some nearby employees may be expected onsite three days per week. - Travel is expected to account for approximately 30% to 50% of the role.