Are you a technically-minded product leader who thrives on building the foundations that make great software possible? Sidetrade is seeking a VP Platform to own the core infrastructure of our O2C Intelligence Platform — the shared services, integrations, and data pipelines that every domain and customer depends on.
Reporting to the CTO, with close daily alignment with the CPO (product) organisation, this role sits at the critical junction of product strategy and platform engineering. You will define what gets built, ensure it scales, and make it extensible — enabling Sidetrade's growing ecosystem of O2C domains, partners, and enterprise integrations.
About Sidetrade:
Sidetrade is an AI company, listed on Euronext Growth, on a mission to revolutionize the way enterprises unlock value from their customers leveraging its Order-to-Cash Intelligence platform and its Data Lake.
We’re proud of our 38 nationalities and these diverse perspectives drive our innovation, one team culture and a customer-first mindset. Sidetrade is positioned as a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader since 2022.
We value passion over perfection. So, if you’re eager to learn and bring great energy, we want to hear from you. Be you. Grow with us.
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Requirements
What you’ll be doing:
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for Sidetrade's shared platform layer — covering Authentication, Roles and Rights Management, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Processing, Event Processing, and API/MCP delivery.
- Lead the product direction for enterprise system integrations, including SAP, Salesforce, AWS Connect, O365, and other ERP and CRM ecosystems, ensuring reliable, scalable connectivity for global enterprise customers.
- Define the partner and developer ecosystem strategy — enabling third parties to extend the Sidetrade platform through well-designed APIs, SDKs, and MCP protocols.
- Own the product roadmap for Sidetrade's connector catalogue, prioritising integrations by customer impact, market coverage, and engineering feasibility.
- Work in close partnership with the CTO organisation to ensure architectural decisions align with platform strategy, and that shared services deliver high availability, security, and compliance.
- Engage CPO, CTO, and domain product leaders to align platform investments with O2C domain needs and overall business objectives.
- Monitor platform health, scalability, and security posture, driving continuous improvement across all shared services.
- Manage a team of Product EPMs and product managers, providing clear priorities, mentorship, and a high bar for delivery standards.
What you’ll bring:
- Demonstrable experience owning shared platform capabilities in a B2B SaaS environment, ideally at enterprise scale.
- Strong understanding of modern platform architectures — microservices, event-driven design, API-first, multi-tenancy, without necessarily being a hands-on engineer.
- Hands-on product experience with ERP and CRM integrations (SAP, Salesforce, or equivalents), including understanding of data models, authentication protocols, and connectivity patterns.
- Proven ability to design and position platform extensibility strategies, including API governance, developer experience, and partner enablement.
- Familiarity with SaaS compliance requirements such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and multi-tenant data isolation.
- Equally comfortable setting a long-term platform vision and rolling up sleeves to unblock delivery teams and resolve architectural trade-offs.
- Demonstrated ability to align Product, Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams around a coherent platform strategy.
- Ability to translate complex platform concepts into clear priorities for executive stakeholders and business partners.
- Experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS company, with understanding of how platform decisions affect customer value, onboarding, and retention.
Benefits
- Attractive location- office based in the heart of London/Birmingham city centre.
- Hybrid work model – a flexible mix of in-office and remote days.
- Great culture – active Social Club organizing regular team events and activities.
- Health & wellness – medical coverage, life insurance, and other wellness programs.
- Time off – competitive paid holidays plus public holidays.
- Career growth & compensation – competitive salary, equal opportunities, learning & mentorship programs, and advancement support.
Because when you thrive, we all succeed!
We’re committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive experience for every candidate If you need any accommodation during the hiring process, just let us know.
Agencies
We only accept applications from invited agencies via our Workable portal. Unsolicited CVs sent to managers or HR won’t be subject to fees.
Skills Required
- Experience owning shared platform capabilities in a B2B SaaS environment
- Understanding of modern platform architectures including microservices and API-first design
- Hands-on product experience with ERP and CRM integrations
- Ability to design platform extensibility strategies
- Familiarity with SaaS compliance requirements
- Demonstrated ability to align various teams around platform strategy
- Experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS company
What We Do
Sidetrade is a fast-growing international SaaS company with a solid 21-year track record. It is listed on Euronext Growth. Sidetrade simplifies the way businesses accelerate order-to-cash. Its next-generation AI self-learning technology, called Aimie, helps businesses unlock customer value. Fuelled by an unrivalled database consisting of millions of worldwide B2B customer payment experiences, Aimie automatically provides customer predictive analytics. She delivers actionable insights that enable teams to make data-driven decisions they can trust. Aimie also provides automation to get better results than purely manual or ERP-driven solutions. Sidetrade’s unique approach to AI unlocks the ability of any organization to leverage intelligent automation and sophisticated machine learning algorithms that maximise business value: • gain control and visibility of the order-to-cash process • secure and grow sales by reducing churn, and increasing upsell and cross-sell • accelerate cash generation by driving collection productivity and sales collaboration. Aimie is a valued teammate, who deals with repetitive, time-consuming tasks, so that her human co-workers can concentrate on their core business: increasing customer value and revenue. Aimie is a real game-changer in collaborative intelligence- a system whereby individuals and machines contribute to problem solving in complementary ways. Artificial intelligence in support of natural intelligence empowers teams to work faster, and smarter. From large multinationals to mid-size enterprises worldwide, thousands of companies already use Sidetrade's SaaS technology to embed a cash culture and optimize complex order-to-cash operations. Customers include: TechData, Nespresso, Expedia, Manpower, Inmarsat, Hearst Magazines, Cordant Group, PageGroup, Chubb, XPO Logistics, Veolia, Vinci....
