VP Product Strategy
Chicago
Product & Engineering – Product Management /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Be bold, think big and grow with us!
At MARKT-PILOT, we're on a mission to create real value for the industrial manufacturing industry and set a new standard in the spare parts business. As a fast-growing B2B scale-up, we enable comprehensive market transparency for the first time. To achieve this, we combine strong momentum with clear intention: we learn quickly, test constantly, and trust our teams with the autonomy and flexibility to turn ideas into outcomes.
It's an environment shaped by hands-on builders who challenge the status quo, take ownership and are driven to solve real problems with bold thinking and action. Join a team that moves fast, grows smarter every step, and succeeds together.
Be part of our success story and join us as VP Product Strategy!
As VP Product Strategy you act as the strategic bridge between customers, product development, and market innovation. You translate real-world pricing challenges and market insights into product strategy and help shape how our platform evolves into a category-defining solution for Pricing Performance. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and customers, you turn vision into scalable, customer-validated capabilities.
Your Mission:
- Define and evolve product strategy: Shape the strategic direction of our platform, translating customer challenges, market dynamics, and emerging trends into actionable roadmap priorities.
- Identify and unlock growth opportunities: Expand the platform vision across the aftermarket ecosystem, including services, lifecycle pricing, and commercial performance analytics.
- Act as the voice of the customer: Engage directly with customers and prospects to deeply understand pricing workflows and ensure product decisions reflect real operational needs and measurable value.
- Drive product co-creation: Partner closely with engineering and solution engineering to translate customer insights into prototypes, experiments, and scalable product capabilities.
- Establish feedback and innovation loops: Build structured co-creation models including design partners, beta programs, and advisory feedback cycles to accelerate validation and learning.
- Lead customer advisory initiatives: Own and develop the Customer Advisory Council to shape roadmap direction and strengthen strategic customer relationships.
- Build a product community: Foster peer exchange, shared learning, and product evangelism through a strong network of engaged customers.
- Shape a new category: Help define and establish the Pricing Performance category, positioning our platform as a modern alternative to legacy pricing systems.
- Represent Markt-Pilot externally: Act as a thought leader in industry events, customer forums, and strategic discussions with senior stakeholders.
Your Skills:
- Experience: You bring 10+ years of experience in pricing, product strategy, commercial transformation, or enterprise software leadership within B2B environments.
- Domain Expertise: You have deep knowledge of industrial pricing, aftermarket business models, pricing workflows, governance, and adoption challenges.
- Strategic Mindset: You are able to translate complex customer pain points into scalable product strategies and business-relevant software capabilities.
- Executive Presence: You are comfortable engaging senior commercial and operational leaders and leading high-impact strategic discussions.
- Systems Thinking: You understand enterprise ecosystems including ERP, CRM, CPQ, analytics, and pricing technologies.
- Product & Technical Collaboration: You have experience working closely with product and engineering teams to bring ideas from concept to scalable solutions.
- Customer-Centricity: You have a track record of building customer advisory programs, co-creation models, or product communities.
- Cross-functional Leadership: You excel at collaborating across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success to drive alignment and outcomes.
Your Benefits
- Inspiring Team Culture: Enjoy regular team events, modern downtown Chicago offices, and a dynamic work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration.
- Flexible Working Hours: Enjoy the freedom to design your workday with flexible hours and a hybrid/remote work option.
- Generous Paid Time Off: Recharge with 25 paid vacation days each year to relax, explore, or focus on personal growth.
- Sick Leave: We care about your health and well-being. In alignment with Chicago’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance, you will receive 5 day of sick time per year to be used
- Transit Benefits: Simplify your commute with our Transit Benefits Program, which provides subsidies for public transportation.
- Divvy Annual Subscription: Love a green commute? Enjoy a free Divvy bike share subscription, making it easy and eco-friendly to get around.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: We offer premium medical plans, including dental, vision, and life insurance, so you can focus on what matters most.
- Financial Support: Benefit from a 5% 401(k) match and an annual Learning and Development budget to support your professional growth.
- Supportive Parental Leave: Take advantage of 3 months of paid parental leave to be there for your loved ones when they need it the most.
Our MARKT-PILOT DNA.
The best thing about working at MARKT-PILOT? Our people.
Piloteers are bold, think creative and bring diversity to our crew. We are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, by the purpose of our work and we are empowered by the motivation we get from supporting each other. Together, we are revolutionizing an entire industry and activating not only the full potential of manufacturers, but our own as well!
At MARKT-PILOT, we are looking for top talent - people who want to take ownership, unleash their entrepreneurial potential, and really get things moving. We know that talent comes in a variety of shapes - the broad range of backgrounds, skills, experiences, and expertise in our crew is the fuel for our rapid growth 🚀.
Working at MARKT-PILOT means working with:
🧑🚀 Zero gravity: Explore your talents, leverage your strengths, grow with us, and become a game changer by helping to solve one of the biggest problems our customers are facing today. Nothing can stop us; we are ready to take off and excited about the journey ahead of us - we will fly high right up to the sky (and even higher) to fulfill our purpose.
🌍 Zero stereotypes: At MARKT-PILOT, there is no room for stereotypes. Come as you are and help us in building a brave and colorful crew. You will work among inspiring co-pilots, visionary leaders, being able to be your authentic self. We offer you a safe space to share your opinion, learn from mistakes & feedback and ask questions at any time.
♾️ Zero limits: We are committed to our mission and trust in our piloteers. On the journey to reach our ambitious goals it is important to us that we don’t restrict you, but encourage creative thinking, entrepreneurial behavior and push innovative ideas.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
