VP Product, Research and Strategy
About the Role
We are looking for a strategic product leader to join Tricentis product executive team, helping to shape the future of Tricentis’ product portfolio toward AI-Native Testing solutions, redefining how enterprise testing is built and managed.
What You’ll Do
- Lead strategic research, assessments and prototypes building related to Tricentis’ product strategy including new Enterprise Testing transformations and needs, AI, Low-touch model products, testing platforms, aligned with enterprise and mid-market customer needs and market trends.
- Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the product portfolio to identify core competitive advantages (“moats”), opportunities for disruption and provide recommendations for strategic priorities (build, buy, partner).
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate strategy into execution, ensuring alignment on roadmap, prioritization, and delivery of AI-driven capabilities across the portfolio.
- Define and incubate new AI-driven product opportunities, with a strong focus on rapid validation, product-market fit, and scalable business impact.
- Establish and lead strategic partnerships with key players in the AI ecosystem to accelerate innovation and strengthen Tricentis’ market leadership position.
- Continuously assess market trends, competitive landscape, and technological shifts in AI and test automation and management, translating insights into actionable strategic recommendations for executive leadership.
What We’re Looking For (Basic Qualifications)
- Proven experience in product strategy or product leadership within B2B SaaS environments
- Hands-on experience building testing platforms, developer tools (DevTools), or enterprise-grade software
- Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies and their business impact
- Demonstrated track record of driving innovation and large-scale product transformation
- Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and execution levels
- Experience working with enterprise customers and global teams
What sets you apart (Preferred Qualifications):
- Experience as a CTO or technical founder in a startup environment
- Experience working closely with a CTO office in high-growth companies or large enterprises
- Background combining enterprise scale with startup pace and innovation mindset
- Strong sense of urgency, speed, and innovation-driven mindset
- Experience in strategic licensing and pricing analysis and monetization models across multiple enterprise products, platform of products, Cloud, AI and OnPrem.
Tricentis is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, religious affiliation, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or physical and mental disability and other statuses protected by law.
Global Sanctions Compliance
We comply with all applicable global sanctions and export control laws. Candidates must not be listed on any government restricted party lists (including OFAC SDN List and U.S. Commerce Department restricted lists) and must certify that their employment would not violate any sanctions or export control regulations. Candidates must notify us of any changes to their status during the application process or subsequent employment.
Skills Required
- 10+ years proven track record delivering software to technical audiences
- Technical depth to understand customer challenges and gain credibility with engineering
- Business acumen with strategic ability to solve problems across organizational boundaries
- Solid understanding of SDLC and Software Testing Life Cycle
- Experience with SaaS
- Experience with modern DevOps practices
- Empathetic, people-centered leadership and passion for developing teams
- Attention to detail; ability to work with large datasets and distill insights
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous, rapidly changing environment
- Excellent communication skills and fluent English (verbal and written)
Tricentis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Tricentis and has not been reviewed or approved by Tricentis.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in some roles and markets, with strong total compensation reported for certain U.S. technical and go-to-market positions. On-target earnings for some sales roles are described as high when performance aligns with plan expectations.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is described as a notable strength, with plan availability including an HSA-compatible high-deductible option alongside a traditional plan. Bonus programs are often cited alongside health coverage as meaningful parts of the overall rewards package.
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Flexible Benefits — Work-from-home and flex time are presented as broadly available, supporting day-to-day flexibility as part of the benefits experience. This flexibility is frequently bundled with other core benefits as a differentiating aspect of the total package.
Tricentis Insights
What We Do
Tricentis is the global leader in enterprise continuous testing, widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications. The Tricentis AI-powered, continuous testing platform provides a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Tricentis has been widely recognized as the leader by all major industry analysts, including being named the leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant five years in a row. Tricentis has more than 1,800 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as McKesson, Accenture, Nationwide Insurance, Allianz, Telstra, Moet-Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, and Vodafone.
