Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Operations
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Job title:SVP Product Strategy & Operations
Location:Dublin Ireland
Reporting to:Chief Product Officer
Location:Dublin Ireland
Reporting to:Chief Product Officer
About Us:
At Sitecore our mission is to simplify how brands reach engage and serve people by delivering intelligent personalised digital experiences that connect the world. We empower the worlds most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customersseamlessly smartly and at scale.
As the leading provider of agentic digital experience software Sitecore brings together content commerce and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful adaptive experiences every day. Trusted by global leaders such as American Express Porsche Starbucks and LOréal Sitecore helps brands transform engagement through experiences that are not only personalised but predictive and dynamic.
Our foundation is our peoplea diverse passionate and collaborative global team spanning over 25 countries. We believe that every experience matters and that belief starts with how we work together.Our valuesguide how we lead innovate and connect. They are the behaviours that bring our mission and vision to life every day in every interaction.
As we continue to evolve we are actively cultivating AI skills across our teams to unlock new levels of creativity efficiency and insight. From engineering to customer experience AI capabilities are becoming integral to how we design build and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.
About the role
TheSVP Product Strategy & Operations is a critical leadership role responsible forestablishingthe operating system for Sitecores product organizationensuring strategy planning and execution move in lockstep across the global product portfolio. This leader aligns portfolio investment with company priorities to drive customer value strengthen market position and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Working in close partnership with Product Engineering Design Go-To-Market and Finance leaders the SVP provides strategic direction and operational leadership across product functions. The role is accountable for defining the operating model governance and standards that shape how product management is practiced at Sitecore and enable consistent execution and experience at scale.
What You Will Do:
Portfolio & Investment Strategy
- Lead portfolio planning and investment governance translating company strategy into clear product priorities.
- Partner with Finance Product and Technology leaders to align resources with strategic value creation.
- Maintain a holistic product portfolio view that connects investments to business outcomes.
- Drive market sizing and opportunity analysis including TAM and SAM assessments to inform investment decisions and portfolio trade-offs.
- Establish and apply a consistent Build / Buy / Partner framework to guide product expansion acquisitions and ecosystem investments.
Product Operations & Excellence
- Establish Sitecores product operating model governance and execution cadence.
- Define and uphold product management standards across discovery validation and delivery.
- Create and maintaina company-wide Product Playbook covering discovery experimentationroadmapping and release readiness.
- Set expectations for product metrics instrumentation and dashboards.
- Drive portfolio-level product reviews that promote evidence-based decisions risk management and cross-team alignment.
- Ensure teams use repeatable data-driven processes to evaluate bets measure adoption and iterate.
Product Evangelism & Communications
- Act as a senior evangelist for Sitecores product vision internally and externally.
- Support analyst relations product marketing and executive communications with strong product narratives.
- Serve as a spokesperson alongside executive product and technology leaders at customer and industry events.
Partner Ecosystem Strategy
- Define and evolve Sitecores partner ecosystem strategy across technology services and channel partners.
- Align partner programs with the product roadmap go-to-market priorities and integration strategy.
- Develop co-sell and co-innovation models that drive joint customer value and revenue growth.
- Monitor industry and partner trends to identifyopportunities for ecosystem expansion and differentiation.
Product Growth
- Establish and lead a product growth function focused on driving adoption and revenue across the portfolio.
- Define growth frameworks metrics and operating models to support experimentation and continuous improvement.
- Champion a test-and-learn culture that uses data analytics and customer insights to inform growth decisions.
What Youll Need:
- Proven senior leadership experience (SVP/VP level or equivalent) withinenterprise SaaS or platform-based technology companies preferablyoperating at global scale.
- Strong understanding of SaaS business models including subscription economics product-led and sales-led motions platform strategy and lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling product operating systemsincluding portfolio planning investment governance execution cadence and product management standardsin SaaS environments.
- Track record of translating company strategy into clear product priorities and measurable business outcomes across complex multi-product portfolios.
- Deep cross-functional leadership experience with the ability to partner effectively with Product Engineering Design Finance Sales Marketing and executive stakeholders.
- Experience overseeing or working closely withProduct Design as a horizontal function integrating discovery research and experimentation throughout the product lifecycle.
- Exposure to partner ecosystem strategy within a SaaS or platform context including integrations alliances and co-innovation models.
- Experience establishing or leading product growth or experimentation functionsleveraging data analytics and customer insights to drive adoption and revenue.
- Executive presence and communication skills with the ability to influence at the highest levels and represent the product organization internally and externally.
- Strong systems thinking sound judgment and comfortoperatingin complex evolving environments.
Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to racecolor ancestry religion gender national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability veteranstatusor any other local legally protected characteristic.
Required Experience:
Senior Exec
Key Skills
- Economics
- Internal Audit
- SQL
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Leadership skills
- Oversight
- Business partner
- AVP
- Requlatory agencies
- Finance
- Accounting
- Potifolio
- Project Management
- Operational Risk
About Company
Sitecore connects content, data, and personalization in one AI-powered platform. Move faster, work smarter, and create experiences that redefine what’s possible.
