Vice President, Product Management

Vista Equity Partners is seeking a Vice President of Product Management to join the Product & Technology (P&T) Value Creation team. This role focuses on elevating product strategy and driving value creation across Vista’s portfolio by partnering with executives and establishing best practices in product management.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with portfolio company leadership to define and refine product vision, strategy, and roadmaps aligned to Vista’s investment thesis and value creation plans
• Drive adoption of best-in-class product management practices across portfolio companies, with a strong emphasis on commercial outcomes (ARR growth, retention, expansion, pricing leverage)
• Assess product-market fit, portfolio rationalization, platform strategy, and build/buy/partner decisions
• Translate market, customer, and competitive insights into actionable product priorities
• Establish and scale product operating models that emphasize accountability, speed, and measurable impact
• Drive consistency in product discovery, roadmap planning, delivery, and lifecycle management across portfolio companies
• Introduce and reinforce metrics-driven product management (e.g., OKRs, North Star metrics, outcome-based roadmaps)
• Ensure tight integration between Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success in highly matrixed environments
• Coach, mentor, and develop CPOs, VPs of Product, and senior product leaders across the portfolio
• Assess product leadership talent; support hiring, succession planning, and organizational design
• Act as a trusted thought partner and 'force multiplier' for portfolio product leaders navigating scale, transformation, or turnaround scenarios
• Leverage modern AI-powered product tools and workflows (e.g., Figma, Lovable, and emerging AI-assisted discovery, design, and delivery platforms) to improve product velocity and quality
• Guide portfolio companies in responsibly integrating AI into product development processes and, where applicable, into customer-facing product capabilities
• Help modernize the PM function through automation, enhanced customer insight, and faster experimentation
• Operate effectively in complex, matrixed environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Serve as a senior representative of the P&T function with Vista deal teams, investment professionals, and portfolio company boards when appropriate
• Provide clear, fact-based perspectives - grounded in experience - on product risks, opportunities, and trade-offs. You should be comfortable telling a CEO their roadmap is underwater and have the credibility to help them fix it

Requirements:

• 15+ years of product leadership experience, with a significant portion at the executive level
• Former or current Chief Product Officer (or equivalent senior product leadership role) at a technology or large enterprise software company
• Demonstrated track record of building and shipping commercial software at scale. Not PRDs that became shelfware - actual software that customers paid for and renewed
• Deep experience leading multi-level product organizations, including managers of managers
• Proven success operating in matrixed environments with strong cross-functional dependencies
• Strong commercial orientation - understands how product decisions translate into revenue, margin, and enterprise value
• Exceptional judgment, executive presence, and ability to influence without direct authority
• Experience working with private equity–backed businesses is strongly preferred