Location: Europe (Germany preferred)
The Opportunity:
This is a pivotal, post-acquisition leadership opportunity for a seasoned executive to take the helm of product management and support for our PXM business unit.
This is a role for a leader who listens first, and who understands that the best products are built by teams that feel heard, valued, and unified.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Vision & Strategy: Own the unified product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the entire PXM and Shopping Feed portfolio, ensuring it aligns with our broader company goals and the needs of our customers. You will be responsible for translating market trends in PXM, including GenAI, Product Data Syndication (PDS), Feed Management Systems (FMS), and Digital Shelf Analytics (DSA), into a compelling and executable roadmap.
- Team Leadership & Cultural Integration: Lead a global team of product managers and support professionals, acting as the primary cultural bridge-builder between the PXM teams and the broader Centric organization.
- Champion a "Listen-First" Culture: Foster a collaborative, participative, and consensus-driven product development culture. Your first and most important job is to listen to the team, understand their concerns, and build a path forward together.
- Strategic Execution: Drive the execution of our "best-in-breed" PXM strategy. Ensure the deep and seamless integration of Shopping Feed into the core PXM offering, creating the game-changing, unified platform that our CEO has committed to.
- Executive Gravitas & Communication: Serve as a senior product voice for PXM on the world stage, representing our product vision and roadmap with gravitas at industry events, with key customers, and in executive-level discussions.
The Ideal Candidate:
- You are a PXM Domain Expert: You have deep, "in the trenches" experience in the PIM/PXM/e-commerce space, ideally from a larger, more mature software company. You know the players—Akeneo, InRiver, Syndigo, Pimcore—as competitors you have faced and beaten.
- You are a Post-Merger Integration Veteran: This is not your first acquisition. You have the "scar tissue" from previous M&A integrations and have a proven playbook for unifying disparate teams, cultures, and technologies. You understand the human dynamics of change and know how to navigate them with empathy and strength.
- You are an Empathetic & Participative Leader: You have a natural "listen-first" leadership style. You build consensus not by avoiding tough decisions, but by ensuring every voice is heard and every perspective is considered. You have the gravitas to build credibility with a highly talented team.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or business-related field is required. An MBA is strongly preferred.
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise software, with at least 7 years in a senior product management leadership role.
- Product Strategy & Roadmapping:
- Expertise in developing and communicating a compelling product vision and strategy that aligns with business objectives.
- Proven ability to translate high-level strategy into a detailed, prioritized, and executable product roadmap using modern tools (e.g., Jira, Aha!, Productboard).
- Deep experience with market analysis, competitive intelligence, and customer research to inform product decisions.
- PIM/PXM Domain Expertise:
- Deep functional knowledge of the PIM/PXM market, including the shift from data management (PIM) to experience management (PXM).
- Strong understanding of key PXM use cases, including product data syndication (PDS), digital shelf analytics (DSA), and the role of GenAI in content optimization.
- Familiarity with the competitive landscape, including the strengths and weaknesses of key players like Akeneo, InRiver, Salsify, and Syndigo.
- Agile & Product Development Methodologies:
- A master of modern, agile product development processes. You know how to lead a product organization that can ship high-quality software at a predictable cadence.
- Experience working in a deeply technical environment, with the ability to partner effectively with engineering leaders on architectural decisions, technical debt, and the trade-offs between speed and quality.
- Data-Driven Decision Making:
- A strong analytical mindset, with a proven ability to use both qualitative and quantitative data (e.g., product usage analytics, customer feedback, market data) to drive product decisions.
- Experience defining and tracking key product metrics (e.g., adoption, engagement, retention) and using them to measure the success of your initiatives.
- Enterprise SaaS & Cloud Native Principles:
- Deep experience in a B2B enterprise SaaS environment, with a strong understanding of the technical and commercial realities of building and selling to large, global organizations.
- A solid grasp of cloud-native principles and the ability to partner with your technical counterpart to build a product that is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective to operate.
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What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.
