Job Summary:
Ascend Learning is a leading healthcare and learning technology company that focuses on outcomes-based, data-driven solutions. The VP Technical Product Management is responsible for defining and driving the technology product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with product and business objectives while leading a high-performing Technical Product Management organization.
Responsibilities:
• Own and define the long-term technology product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with the SVP of Product and Ascend’s overall product strategy.
• Translate product and business needs into clear technology-focused outcomes, KPIs, and success metrics for platform initiatives.
• Own technology product roadmaps spanning shared platforms and core capabilities that support multiple product lines. Balance long-term platform evolution with near-term product delivery commitments.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Architecture leaders to ensure technology platforms effectively enable product innovation and scale.
• Drive execution of the technology product portfolio from concept through delivery, adoption, and ongoing optimization.
• Play a critical role in shaping enterprise-wide platform, architecture, and technology investment decisions. Act as a senior advisor to the SVP of Product on platform strategy, sequencing, and investment tradeoffs.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Establish and oversee governance models for technology investments, ensuring disciplined prioritization, transparency, and value realization.
• Establish best practices for product discovery, delivery, and lifecycle management across platform teams.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Technical Product Management organization.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
• 12+ years of experience in technology product management, including at least 7 years in senior leadership roles
• Demonstrated strong technical fluency and curiosity to understand system architectures, data flows and product tradeoffs for close collaboration with engineering
• Proven experience managing complex platform or infrastructure product portfolios across the full product lifecycle
• Demonstrated success leading large, cross-functional teams in fast-paced, matrixed environments
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including Agile, Scrum, and scaled Agile frameworks
• Strategic, systems-level thinker with a data-driven approach to prioritization and decision-making
• Exceptional communication, influence, and executive presence
• Customer- and product-centric mindset with a passion for building scalable, reusable technology platforms
Preferred:
• Master’s degree
Company:
At Ascend develop industry-leading online learning tools that help people enter, sustain and succeed in their careers. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Burlington, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.