Job Description
About the Role\n\nThe most important thing we are looking for is a proven product leader. A leader with a proven track record of building and running product organizations, owning roadmaps from vision through execution, and engaging executive stakeholders with clarity, confidence, and a well-grounded point of view on where the business should go next. Product knowledge and the ability to lead a product organization come first.\n\n### Key Responsibilities\n\n### Product Strategy and Portfolio Ownership\n- Define and own the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for LoanVision\n- Lead portfolio prioritization across core product enhancements, strategic investments, and new product opportunities\n- Identify and anticipate opportunities to expand customer value, before customers ask for them\n- Balance customer needs, market demand, technical feasibility, and business objectives in every product decision\n- Act as executive sponsor for LoanVision's product innovation agenda\n\n### Product Team Leadership and Delivery\n- Lead and develop the Product Management function, including direct leadership of product managers and product owners\n- Establish and continuously evolve product management frameworks, governance, prioritization processes, and best practices\n- Oversee roadmap planning, backlog strategy, release planning, advisory boards, and product lifecycle management\n- Drive delivery discipline, execution accountability, and continuous improvement across the product organization\n- Partner closely with Development, Customer Success, Sales, and Executive Leadership to translate strategy into shipped product\n\n### Strategic Partnerships and Growth\n- Lead LoanVision's Buy, Build, Partner strategy, evaluating whether to build internally, partner externally, or pursue strategic acquisitions\n- Identify, negotiate, and manage strategic technology partnerships that expand product capabilities and ecosystem value\n- Develop partner relationships that position LoanVision ahead of market shifts\n- Assess emerging technologies and identify partnership opportunities before they become table stakes in the mortgage banking space\n\n### Customer and Market Leadership\n- Serve as the executive voice of the customer, translating customer needs and market signals into product strategy\n- Lead Product Advisory Board initiatives and structured customer feedback programs\n- Monitor industry trends, competitive positioning, and emerging technologies with a forward-thinking lens\n- Work closely with Sales and Customer Success to identify expansion opportunities and increase customer value\n\n### Executive Collaboration\n- Partner with the executive leadership team on strategic planning, investment decisions, and long-term product direction\n- Translating company objectives into measurable product initiatives\n- Present product strategy, roadmap direction, and business cases to executive stakeholders with clarity and conviction\n- Support budgeting, resource allocation, and investment planning aligned to growth priorities\n\n### Qualification for Success\n\n#### Required\n- Proven product management leadership experience, with demonstrated success running a product team, owning a product roadmap, and leading product managers or product owners\n- Experience implementing formal product management frameworks, governance processes, backlog management, and prioritization methodologies\n- Experience leading or participating in a Product Advisory Board or equivalent structured customer feedback program\n- Demonstrated buy-build-partner decision-making experience with specific, outcome-driven examples\n- Strong executive communication skills, a high degree of charisma and presence, and the ability to inspire confidence in a room\n- A forward-thinking orientation. You bring ideas and a perspective on where the market is going. You are not waiting to be asked\n\n#### Strongly Preferred - one of the following\n- Meaningful experience working within the Microsoft Dynamics family, particularly Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics NAV, in product delivery, implementation, or product ownership capacity\n- OR deep, first-hand experience working within the mortgage banking industry and its software ecosystem, including familiarity with loan origination systems, mortgage accounting platforms, or lending technology\n\n#### Preferred\n- Broader Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem experience including Dynamics CRM, Finance and Operations, or Power Platform\n- ERP software product leadership or delivery experience\n- Financial systems, accounting software, fintech, or lending technology background\n- Experience evaluating and managing strategic technology partnerships\n- Microsoft partner ecosystem familiarity\n- Experience supporting executive-level growth and innovation strategies within a portfolio company environment\n\nCompensation Range - 150K - 180K USD + Benefits and Bonus\n
