Manager Product Innovation

Appficiency Inc.

$90K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in Product Management, including 3+ years in a senior leadership role
  • Proven track record of building and scaling B2B SaaS products with measurable commercial success
  • Strong grasp of product commercialization and revenue ownership
  • Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, and cloud architectures
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams, influencing at the executive level
  • Strategic thinker with execution capability in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
  • Genuine interest in emerging technologies and trends

Responsibilities

  • Define and operationalize a product vision and multi-year roadmap
  • Identify and validate market opportunities, leading product development
  • Drive software revenue growth by partnering with Sales and Marketing
  • Establish a customer-centric product discovery framework
  • Build, lead, and scale a high-performing product organization
  • Implement performance metrics for data-driven product decisions
  • Champion the integration of AI and emerging technologies across products

Benefits

  • Opportunities to work closely with cutting-edge technology
  • Dynamic and high-impact executive-facing environment
  • Professional growth through leadership and team-building initiatives
  • Ability to influence product strategy and commercial success at a high level
  • Access to strategic partnerships within major cloud ecosystems
Full Job Description
This is a high-impact, executive-facing leadership role with a clear mandate: lead product strategy, innovation, and commercial growth for SnapOn Software.

This role is designed for a leader who can operate at both strategic and operational altitudes-setting vision while driving execution in a scaling environment.

What You'll Do

Product Strategy, Innovation & Growth
  • Define and operationalize a clear product vision and multi-year roadmap aligned to company growth objectives
  • Identify and validate new market opportunities, leading product development from ideation through commercialization
  • Own and drive software revenue growth, partnering closely with Sales and Marketing to deliver against targets
  • Establish a customer-centric product discovery framework, grounded in user insights and market intelligence
  • Build, lead, and scale a high-performing product organization (Product Management, Design, and Engineering alignment)
  • Implement performance metrics (KPIs/OKRs) to enable data-driven product decisions and accountability
  • Maintain a hands-on, curious approach to new technology, regularly experimenting, prototyping, and stress-testing new capabilities to assess real-world product applicability
  • Champion the integration of AI, automation, and emerging technologies across the product suite
  • Expand and strengthen strategic partnerships within the Microsoft, NetSuite/Oracle, and Salesforce ecosystems
  • Proven leadership across software development, product delivery, and innovation
  • Hands-on technical credibility
  • Operational discipline and people leadership

What You'll Bring
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in Product Management, including 3+ years in a senior leadership capacity
  • Demonstrated success in building and scaling B2B SaaS products with measurable commercial impact
  • Strong understanding of product commercialization and revenue ownership
  • Technical fluency across APIs, integrations, and cloud-based architectures
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence at the executive level
  • Strategic mindset with the ability to drive execution in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments
  • Genuine curiosity for emerging and bleeding-edge technology, you follow the frontier, not the crowd
  • Ability to manage budget, partner with Sales, and drive product pipeline through established GTM teams
  • Strong product generation and commercialization mindset


Differentiators
  • Experience within the Microsoft, Salesforces and or NetSuite/Oracle ecosystem
  • Exposure to AI/ML-driven products or automation platforms
  • Background in professional services or hybrid SaaS/services business models is a plus
  • Experience scaling product organizations from early-stage to growth-stage
  • Advanced business or technical education (MBA, MSc, etc.)


What Success Looks Like
  • Early wins in product clarity, roadmap, and execution cadence
  • Launch of new or enhanced product capabilities within the first 6 months
  • Clear traction in customer adoption and revenue growth
  • A scalable product foundation positioned for long-term expansion

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