VP of Product Management

The role

This person will own and grow the Award Management suite and lead a team of product managers. They will set multi-year strategy across a multi-platform portfolio and work cross functionally across engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, and support.

What you will do

• Own the product vision and multi-year roadmap for the Award Management suite.
• Build, lead, and develop a team of product managers.
• Define and execute a multi-platform strategy across the Award Management portfolio.
• Partner with engineering leadership to plan platform migrations, consolidations, and modernization work.
• Represent the Award Management strategy and roadmap to the executive team and other stakeholders.
• Partner with sales, marketing, and customer success on packaging, pricing, and go-to-market readiness.
• Lead customer and market discovery across research institutions.
• Champion Agile practices across the product management team.
• Serve as the voice of the customer within Cayuse.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of B2B product management experience, including experience leading and managing a team of product managers.
• Proven experience defining and executing product strategy across a multi-platform or multi-product portfolio at a B2B SaaS company.
• Skilled at working within Agile environments across distributed teams.
• Experience with platform migrations, product consolidations, or modernization efforts.
• Strong track record of setting roadmap priorities based on customer needs, business impact, and technical feasibility.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and driving alignment across teams you don’t directly control.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Experience in research administration, higher education, or grants and award management software.
• Familiarity with the sponsored project lifecycle: proposals, awards, agreements, and financial compliance.
• Experience at a PE-backed company with ARR-oriented reporting expectations.
• Working fluency with AI tools to accelerate discovery synthesis, roadmap planning, and competitive analysis.

Benefits

• Competitive Medical Benefits (PPO + HSA available)
• Vision, Dental, Short-Term Disability fully covered by Cayuse
• Unlimited PTO + Holidays + Flexible Work Schedule
• Remote Work Stipend
• Equal Paid Parental Leave
• 401k with Employer Matching
• Quarterly Wellness Reimbursement
• Remote Work Environment

Before you apply

• Cayuse does not accept agency resumes.

About the company

Cayuse powers the research lifecycle with a cloud based platform that supports universities, hospitals, government agencies, and research institutions. They build integrated technology to accelerate research, ensure compliance, and reduce administrative burden.