Progress Careers

Strategic Leadership & Vision: 

• Accountable for definition and execution of the long-term product vision, roadmap, and investment strategy, ensuring alignment with customer needs and company priorities. 
• Makes critical decisions on product portfolio trade-offs, resource allocation, and innovation bets, balancing short- and long-term priorities. 
• Partners with executive business unit leadership to drive strategic direction for the business unit and investment priorities.  

Business & Product Ownership: 

• Responsible for driving business outcomes including revenue growth, profitability, product adoption, and customer satisfaction in the ShareFile product line. 
• Oversees end-to-end Product Management, User Experience, and Engineering functions to deliver cohesive, innovative, and competitive offerings. 
• Accountable for product lifecycle management—from ideation and validation to delivery, scaling, and sunset decisions. 

Operational Excellence: 

• Establishes organizational structures, governance, and operating models to optimize efficiency, accountability, and scalability in the Engineering practice, and across Product Management and UX. 
• Manages significant budgets and global delivery models, ensuring effective coordination across time zones, distributed teams, and diverse cultures. 
• Creates and enforces standards for product quality, user experience, and engineering excellence, with measurable outcomes. 

Innovation & Transformation: 

• Champions adoption of modern SDLC practices, AI-enabled development, and data-driven decision making to accelerate speed-to-market. 
• Drives customer-centric innovation through market intelligence, competitive analysis, and direct engagement with key customers and partners. 
• Leads transformation initiatives to scale product and engineering functions in alignment with business growth and evolving market needs. 

Leadership & Talent Development:

• Directs multiple layers of leadership, ensuring talent pipelines, succession planning, and leadership bench strength. 
• Coaches senior leaders to improve managerial capability, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement. 
• Promotes a high-performance, inclusive culture where innovation, accountability, and collaboration thrive. 

Governance & Risk Management: 

• Drives, data security, and operational resilience across product development activities. 
• Identifies and mitigates operational, market, and technical risks. 
• Leads M&A integration activities related to product and technology 

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Acts as executive sponsor for major customer accounts and strategic partnerships, influencing renewal and expansion opportunities. 
• Drives strong collaboration with Sales, Marketing and Customer Experience teams, creating a unified and coherent strategy across Product and GTM functions. 
• Establishes KPIs and OKRs for product, engineering, and UX functions; ensures visibility of progress to executive leadership. 
• Regularly presents to C-suite executives on product performance, innovation pipeline, and organizational health. 
• Represents the company externally at industry forums, analyst briefings, and customer advisory boards. 

Your background:  

• 15+ years of experience in Product Management and Engineering for enterprise software companies, with at least 7+ years at a senior/executive leadership level. 
• Proven track record as the product owner of a major product line or portfolio, accountable for vision, roadmap, performance, and customer outcomes. 
• Deep experience managing global, multi-layered organizations (100+ HC) across PM, UX, and Engineering. 
• Strong background in strategic planning, resource allocation, and investment decision-making. 
• Expertise in product lifecycle management, including commercialization and retirement. 
• Demonstrated success in building and leading senior leadership teams, with strength in succession planning and organizational design. 
• Deep experience in AI development and in driving AI-based transformation within existing product lines. 
• Skilled at driving outcomes in matrixed environments.  
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional collaboration across Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, Finance, and more. 
• Experience in M&A product integration and post-acquisition scaling. 
• Knowledge of modern software development practices including agile, DevOps, and AI/ML-enabled development. 
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate market trends into product strategy. 
• Exceptional executive communication and influence skills. 
• Experience managing large budgets and aligning investments with corporate strategy. 
• Strong understanding of compliance, data security, and risk management in global product development. 
• Recognized for fostering inclusive, high-performance cultures across distributed teams. 
• Ability to serve as a visible external thought leader in industry forums and analyst briefings. 
• Advanced degree in Business, Computer Science, or related discipline preferred. 

If this sounds like you and fits your experience and career goals, we’d be happy to chat.   

What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and also to enjoy:  

• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability, and financial benefits (including 401(k) retirement savings plan. Tuition Reimbursement program. Additional voluntary benefits including crucial illness/hospital indemnity, identity theft protection, auto & home insurance, legal, and pet insurance. 
• Competitive salary, bonus, and best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback
• Flexible paid vacation time, paid day off for your birthday, and company holidays. A variety of leave plans, including Parental Leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and an employee well-being program focusing on physical, mental, and financial health.