VP of Product, Foundation

🚀 VP of Product, Foundation | United States | Remote | Pax8

Join Pax8 as our VP of Product, Foundation and shape the future of the world's leading cloud marketplace platform, driving the product strategy behind the commerce engine that powers thousands of managed service providers across the globe.

🌟 Why This Role?

This is a rare opportunity to own the product vision for Pax8 's largest and most strategically important portfolio. Foundation sits at the heart of our marketplace, enabling everything from product discovery and purchasing to provisioning, billing, subscriptions, integrations, and partner growth.

As AI reshapes software development and customer experiences, you'll help define how a modern, intelligent commerce platform evolves. You'll influence how thousands of partners buy, sell, manage, and grow through technology while building capabilities that support both hypergrowth and enterprise-grade financial rigor.

You'll join at a pivotal moment where platform scale, artificial intelligence, automation, and operational excellence converge, giving you the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on both Pax8 and the wider technology ecosystem.

💜 Life at Pax8

At Pax8 , business is personal. We're passionate about creating an environment where people can do their best work while continuously learning and growing. Guided by our values of Compassionate Candor, Seek to Understand, We Before Me, Do What You Say, Light Up Learning, and Driven by Passion, we foster a culture built on trust, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

You'll join a global organization that embraces emerging technologies, invests heavily in learning, and empowers individuals to challenge conventional thinking while delivering exceptional outcomes for our partners.

🎯 What You'll Be Responsible For

📈 Define the Future of Commerce at Pax8

- Establish and execute the long-term product vision for Foundation, Pax8 's core commerce platform.

- Create a strategic roadmap that balances operational excellence, compliance, financial controls, scalability, and growth.

- Guide investment decisions across marketplace capabilities, billing, subscriptions, ordering, provisioning, analytics, integrations, and partner experiences.

💡 Drive Growth Through Product Innovation

- Create frictionless experiences that improve partner acquisition, engagement, retention, and expansion.

- Shape product experiences that help partners discover, purchase, manage, and maximize technology investments.

- Identify new opportunities to increase platform adoption through analytics, recommendations, APIs, ecosystem integrations, and intelligent automation.

🤝 Lead Through Partnership

- Act as the strategic product counterpart to the VP of Engineering, jointly driving outcomes across the Foundation platform.

- Partner closely with Architecture, Finance, Operations, Commercial Leadership, Design, and User Research to align priorities and deliver results.

- Establish clear ownership boundaries across a complex product ecosystem to ensure teams move quickly and effectively.

🧠 Build for an AI-Powered Future

- Develop a point of view on how AI and agent-assisted experiences will transform partner commerce.

- Guide teams through new ways of working that leverage AI to accelerate discovery, validation, delivery, and decision making.

- Help evolve product practices to remain effective as technology and customer expectations continue to change.

👥 Develop Exceptional Product Talent

- Lead and inspire a high-performing product management organization.

- Create an environment where strategic thinking, commercial acumen, technical depth, and customer empathy flourish.

- Coach leaders and product managers to operate effectively across a broad and complex portfolio.

🌍 Your Impact

Foundation is the engine behind the Pax8 marketplace. Your leadership will directly influence partner satisfaction, operational excellence, financial integrity, and futu