Vice President, Product Management

SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks ensuring continuous measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation API lifecycle management and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.

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At SmartBear you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers driving go to market strategies supporting operations building products or enabling teams your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission.

The way software gets tested is changing faster than at any point in the last decade. AI agents are beginning to write tests execute them triage results and evaluate tooling without a human browsing a marketplace. SmartBears Test Management portfolio including Reflect and Qmetry sits at the center of that shift.

Were looking for a VP of Product Management to lead this business. Youll own strategy roadmap growth and execution for a group of SmartBears test products and youll define how quality and testing integrate into developer workflows at scale. This is not a role for someone who views AI as a roadmap feature. Its a role for someone who has a credible specific point of view on where agentic testing goes has shipped product decisions that reflect that view and can build the organizational and GTM muscle to get SmartBear there.

This is a senior product leadership role with direct customer and partner exposure meaningful people leadership responsibility and high visibility inside the company.

Location: Flexible / Remote

Reports to: SVP Product Management

• AI product experience not just fluency. Youve made bets on where AI changes buyer behavior shipped something been wrong and updated. You understand the difference between AI features and AI-native product architecture. You have a point of view on how agentic workflows are reshaping how software gets tested and how tools get discovered and selected by buyers who may not be human.
• Executive-grade GTM partnership. Youve been in deal conversations not just informed about them. Youve made product decisions that changed revenue outcomes; accelerating deals adjusting pricing or packaging or shaping how the product shows up in market. Sales and marketing teams have trusted you as a strategic partner not a gatekeeper.
• Proven people leadership at the VP level. Youve led a team that includes PM managers not just individual contributors. You know how to develop a management layer make hard people calls and calibrate performance at scale. Four to six reports some of whom manage others is the right level of complexity for where you are in your career.
• Deep enough domain fluency to be credible from day one. You understand the QA ecosystem; how teams work where the pain is how testing tooling integrates with CI/CD pipelines and platforms like Jira and Atlassian well enough to earn respect from engineers and enterprise buyers without a ramp period.
• Strong ecosystem and partner instincts. Youve built or significantly shaped a product strategy in a platform-dependent context. You understand the tension between integration depth and product differentiation and youve navigated partner relationships that are both strategic and competitive.
• 10 years of product management experience including leading product teams in SaaS or enterprise environments. Testing developer tools or enterprise workflow experience is a strong plus.

• Define and execute product strategy for SmartBears test portfolio with a clear view of where AI and agentic workflows are changing the competitive landscape.
• Own the roadmap for how testing and quality integrate into SDLC workflows and how SmartBears products get discovered evaluated and selected in an increasingly AI-mediated buying environment.
• Ensure product architecture and positioning keep pace with the shift from human-driven to agent-driven tool evaluation including API surface integration depth and structured metadata that make products accessible to agentic orchestration.
• Align product strategy with SmartBears Application Integrity evolution and ensure coherence across Reflect and Qmetry and the broader portfolio.
• Engage directly with customers partners and external stakeholders to keep strategy grounded in real-world usage and adoption dynamics.

• Drive adoption retention expansion and revenue growth for your products with accountability to portfolio-level targets.
• Partner closely with GTM teams on pricing packaging and ecosystem strategies and serve as a key voice in how Test Management shows up in market.
• Optimize across product-led and sales-led growth motions including AI-influenced discovery and evaluation paths.
• Identify expansion opportunities across customers channels and partner ecosystems including positioning within platforms where AI agents recommend tooling.

• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers including PMs who manage others.
• Set clear expectations for roadmap quality discovery rigor and execution discipline and hold the team to them.
• Partner with Engineering and UX to deliver high-quality reliable releases on a consistent cadence.
• Build operational muscle: quarterly planning cross-team alignment and a PM org that runs without hand-holding.

• Work closely with Sales Marketing and Customer Success on GTM alignment enablement and external narrative.
• Serve as a key product voice in customer partner and analyst conversations owning the external story not just informing it.
• Build and maintain partnerships with key technology and channel partners including Atlassian and relevant platform ecosystems.
• Ensure feedback from outside the building consistently informs roadmap decisions.

SmartBear is a PE-backed financially disciplined company that operates with the rigor and business ownership mindset that comes with that context. This role is for someone who thrives when they must build a case for investment defend a roadmap under real financial constraints and measure success in business outcomes not just product output.

The testing space is being reshaped. AI is changing not just how software gets tested but how testing tools get discovered evaluated and bought. SmartBears test products are a critical growth engine and this VP will determine whether we lead that shift or chase it.

The right leader will bring a specific point of view on where agentic testing goes the operational discipline to run a high-performing PM org and the GTM credibility to be a trusted voice with sales customers and partners. That combination is rare. If thats you this is the role.

Why you should join the SmartBear crew

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work collaborate and have fun.
• We love celebrating ourSmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences viewpoints and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know

• Our mission at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place. We are committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility across the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville MA with offices around the world including Galway Bath Wroclaw andBangalore.
• Wevewon major industry (product and company) awards including SD TimesDeveloperWeeksDeviesAward the AI Breakthrough Award andBuiltInBest Places to Work.
• SmartBear is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.

SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit qualifications and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex national origin age gender disability veteran status sexual orientation or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart open driven accountable and curious.