VP of Product Development
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Define and execute OQC's Product Development strategy, owning the roadmap and portfolio to make strategic investment and prioritisation decisions. Partner with Research, Engineering, and Architecture to transform breakthrough innovation into scalable, commercially deployable products. Establish world-class governance, delivery frameworks, and performance metrics to enable predictable execution. Build and lead a high-performing global Product Development organisation, driving capability growth and organisational excellence. Represent the product vision with executive stakeholders, customers, partners, and investors while championing collaboration across the business.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience developing and executing Product Development or Product Portfolio strategies within complex technology organisations
- Proven track record of transforming customer requirements, research outcomes or emerging technologies into scalable commercial products
- Experience leading multidisciplinary Product Development, Product Management or equivalent technical organisations
- Strong background partnering with Research, Engineering and technical leadership to deliver commercially viable products
- Demonstrated success influencing executive investment decisions and balancing commercial opportunity, customer value and technical feasibility
- Experience establishing product governance, operating models and product management frameworks at scale
- Strong commercial acumen, including portfolio management, budgeting, investment prioritisation and strategic planning
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across technical and commercial audiences
- Experience building high-performing teams through recruitment, coaching, succession planning and organisational development
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in quantum computing, advanced computing or other deep technology sectors
- Experience managing enterprise technology product portfolios
- Experience working across international organisations and distributed teams
- Experience engaging with executive customers, investors or strategic technology partners
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Business or a related discipline
- MBA, postgraduate qualification, Product Management certification or Agile certification
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