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We’re experienced operators and subject-matter experts with a passion for software and building businesses. We partner with founders to help them scale their businesses and realize their companies’ full potential.\nWe look for businesses with strong leadership and high potential for profitable growth, and work together to increase year-over-year revenue, company efficiency, and impact. Cordance envisions that all companies we work with achieve their full potential. We embrace what makes each company great and build on those foundations. We believe in elevating a company as it scales, delivering dignity to the organization and its employees, and sharing a passion for building a legacy.\nPosition Overview\nThe Vice President, Product helps raise the quality, speed, and ambition of product development across the Cordance portfolio. This is not a traditional single-company VP of Product role. The VP partners with BU Presidents, Product leaders, and Engineering teams to strengthen product strategy, improve the quality of major product bets, and help our businesses build products that drive growth, retention, and long-term value. The mandate spans executive advisory work on major product decisions, raising product capability and craft across the portfolio, and helping teams use AI to rethink both what they build and how they build it.\nSuccess in this role means our businesses make better product choices, validate ideas earlier, build faster, and put more of their product and engineering capacity behind the opportunities most likely to improve customer value and business performance. It also means our Presidents and Product leaders become stronger product thinkers, and our best product practices spread more quickly across the portfolio.\nKey Responsibilities\nPartner with BU Presidents and Product LeadersHelp Presidents and Product leaders turn customer needs, market opportunities, and business priorities into clear product strategies and roadmaps.\nChallenge assumptions on product-market fit, differentiation, prioritization, and investment before major decisions are made.\nHelp teams move beyond feature roadmaps toward stronger customer-, market-, and outcome-based product decisions.\nGet directly involved in important product decisions where additional product leadership can materially improve the outcome.\n\nImprove the Quality of Product BetsAssess major product bets on customer value, market opportunity, differentiation, expected business impact, required investment, and execution feasibility.\nHelp teams determine where to invest, test, accelerate, modernize, or stop.\nBring rigor to early product validation so teams learn quickly before committing significant engineering capacity.\nConnect product decisions to measurable results, including adoption, retention, expansion, ARR growth, and customer value.\n\nBuild Products in the AI AgeHelp teams identify AI-native opportunities rather than simply adding AI features to existing products.\nApply AI across discovery, prototyping, validation, development, testing, launch, and ongoing optimization.\nHelp Product and Engineering teams use AI-assisted development to improve speed and time to market.\nBring practical fluency in AI-enabled UX, automation, agentic workflows, data, model economics, security, and privacy.\nEnsure AI investments are grounded in real customer and business outcomes, not novelty.\n\nRaise Product Capability Across the PortfolioCoach senior Product leaders and PMs to become better product and business leaders.\nStrengthen discovery, prioritization, MVP definition, roadmap strategy, experimentation, and product measurement.\nEstablish a small number of practical product standards and operating rhythms that improve execution without slowing teams down.\nIdentify common capabilities, tools, and patterns that can be leveraged across businesses where it makes sense.\nIntroduce current SaaS and AI product thinking while respecting the unique markets and customer needs of each business.\n\nConnect Product, Engineering, and Business StrategyWork closely with Engineering leaders so product strategy and technical decisions reinforce one another.\nEngage credibly on SaaS architecture, cloud, APIs, data, platforms, AI, and scalability.\nHelp teams think clearly about build, buy, partner, and platform choices.\nMaintain a strong customer and business orientation while working across technical and commercial teams.\n\nCompetencies:\nProduct Judgment - Identifies important customer problems, validates opportunities, and makes clear prioritization decisions.\nBuilder Mindset - Creates and improves products rather than simply managing roadmaps or large Product organizations.\nAI-Native Thinking - Sees where AI changes what gets built and how teams build it, and focuses on value over novelty.\nCommercial Fluency - Connects product decisions to adoption, retention, expansion, monetization, and ARR growth.\nInfluence Without Authority - Earns credibility with CEOs, Presidents, and Product leaders and influences through expertise and judgment.\nLeader Development - Coaches senior Product leaders and PMs to become stronger product and business leaders.\nTechnical Credibility - Engages effectively with Engineering while remaining fundamentally customer- and product-led.\nBias for Outcomes - Values judgment, speed, and measurable results over process for its own sake.\nRequired Qualifications\nSignificant B2B SaaS product leadership experience, including leading products from early concept through launch and scale.\nDemonstrated success creating and improving products, not simply managing roadmaps or large Product organizations.\nHands-on experience applying AI to both product development and customer-facing products.\nStrong understanding of SaaS economics, including adoption, retention, expansion, monetization, and growth.\nExperience working directly with CEOs, Presidents, or senior business leaders.\nExperience coaching and developing senior Product leaders and PMs.\nTechnical fluency in SaaS architecture, cloud, APIs, data, platforms, and scalability.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working across multiple products, markets, or businesses.\nPortfolio, multi-business, or PE-backed operating experience.\nVertical SaaS experience.\nPlease note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes, work on a Corp-to-Corp basis, or engage with non-vetted external agencies.\nWhy Join Us?\nAt Cordance, we believe in taking care of our team members. When you join us, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance:\nHealth and Wellness:Comprehensive Health Coverage: Coverage begins on your first day of employment.\n\n Retirement Savings:401K Plan (US): We match 1:1 for the first 3% of contributions and 0.5:1 for the next 2%. Contribute 5% of your salary and get a 4% match. Choose from pre-tax and Roth options. You’re eligible the first of the month after 90 days and immediately vested.\nRRSP (CAN): We match 1:1 for the first 3% of contributions and 0.5:1 for the next 2%. Contribute 5% of your salary and get a 4% match. Choose from pre-tax and Roth options. You’re eligible the first of the month after 90 days and immediately vested.\n\nPaid Time Off:Flexible PTO: Enjoy uncapped paid time off to balance your work and personal life.\n\nParental Leave:12 weeks paid leave for all employees.\n\nRemote Work Support:Monthly Stipend: Receive $75 USD / $140 CAD per month for phone and internet if you work remotely.\n\nHolidays:Generous Holiday Schedule: Benefit from an extensive list of holidays to recharge and spend time with loved ones.\n\nJoin us and be part of a company that values your contributions and well-being from day one!\nEEOC & ADA Statement:\nCordance and its companies provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, creed, sex, nationality, ancestry, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.\nCordance and its companies comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. 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