VP of Product, Foundation

🚀 VP of Product, Foundation | United States | Remote | Pax8

Join Pax8 as our VP of Product, Foundation and shape the future of the world's leading cloud marketplace platform, driving the product strategy behind the commerce engine that powers thousands of managed service providers across the globe.

🎯 What You'll Be Responsible For
📈 Define the Future of Commerce at Pax8

• Establish and execute the long-term product vision for Foundation, Pax8's core commerce platform.
• Create a strategic roadmap that balances operational excellence, compliance, financial controls, scalability, and growth.
• Guide investment decisions across marketplace capabilities, billing, subscriptions, ordering, provisioning, analytics, integrations, and partner experiences.

💡 Drive Growth Through Product Innovation

• Create frictionless experiences that improve partner acquisition, engagement, retention, and expansion.
• Shape product experiences that help partners discover, purchase, manage, and maximize technology investments.
• Identify new opportunities to increase platform adoption through analytics, recommendations, APIs, ecosystem integrations, and intelligent automation.

🤝 Lead Through Partnership

• Act as the strategic product counterpart to the VP of Engineering, jointly driving outcomes across the Foundation platform.
• Partner closely with Architecture, Finance, Operations, Commercial Leadership, Design, and User Research to align priorities and deliver results.
• Establish clear ownership boundaries across a complex product ecosystem to ensure teams move quickly and effectively.

🧠 Build for an AI-Powered Future

• Develop a point of view on how AI and agent-assisted experiences will transform partner commerce.
• Guide teams through new ways of working that leverage AI to accelerate discovery, validation, delivery, and decision making.
• Help evolve product practices to remain effective as technology and customer expectations continue to change.

👥 Develop Exceptional Product Talent

• Lead and inspire a high-performing product management organization.
• Create an environment where strategic thinking, commercial acumen, technical depth, and customer empathy flourish.
• Coach leaders and product managers to operate effectively across a broad and complex portfolio.

🌍 Your Impact

Foundation is the engine behind the Pax8 marketplace. Your leadership will directly influence partner satisfaction, operational excellence, financial integrity, and future growth.

You'll help create the platform that thousands of businesses rely on every day while ensuring Pax8 is positioned to scale sustainably, innovate rapidly, and remain the trusted marketplace for technology professionals worldwide.

• What Success Looks Like

We're searching for someone who combines strategic vision with an ability to execute in highly complex environments.

You bring:

• Demonstrated success leading large-scale product organizations with executive-level scope.
• Proven experience owning complex marketplace, commerce, platform, SaaS, or partner ecosystem products.
• Deep understanding of commerce journeys including purchasing, subscriptions, provisioning, billing, invoicing, and partner operations.
• Strong experience balancing growth initiatives alongside governance, compliance, operational control, and scalability requirements.
• Ability to influence across executive stakeholders, engineering leaders, operational teams, and commercial functions.
• Strong understanding of platform architecture concepts and product decision-making within complex technical environments.
• Experience leveraging AI and emerging technologies to improve product strategy, delivery, prioritization, and organizational effectiveness.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to move seamlessly between executive strategy, technical discussions, and customer-focused outcomes.
• A customer-first mindset grounded in real-world experience serving businesses, partners, marketplaces, or technology ecosystems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity while maintaining strategic clarity and organizational alignment.

🛡 Trust and Hiring

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships - starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about - we're excited to meet you.

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🌈 Inclusion Matters

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in United States.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive executive compensation package based on skills, experience, and market location
• Annual performance bonus opportunity
• Equity participation through Pax8 stock programs
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• Retirement savings plans with company contribution opportunities
• Learning and development investment
• LinkedIn Learning access
• Wellbeing resources and coaching support
• Remote-first flexibility
• Employee recognition programs
• Company events and celebrations

📚 Growth & Development

There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace - whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive - and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.

Base Salary Comp Range: $250k - $300k

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Perks:

At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:

• 401(k) with Company Match
• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employer-Paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Open PTO
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• RTD EcoPass (eligible Colorado-based employees)

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