VP, Incubation Hub

Accountabilities: You will establish and lead the Incubation Hub, turning market opportunities into validated product concepts and scalable business offerings. Your responsibilities will include: Define the overall strategy, vision, and roadmap for the Incubation Hub, determining which opportunities to explore, test, scale, or discontinue. Identify emerging customer needs, market gaps, and innovative product opportunities across a diverse digital portfolio. Design and lead rapid experimentation cycles to validate ideas with real customers before committing significant resources. Evaluate existing products and early-stage offerings, including Concept Lab initiatives and VPN solutions, to assess performance, growth potential, and future investment needs. Make informed product lifecycle decisions, including scaling successful offerings, pivoting underperforming initiatives, or responsibly winding down products. Manage product transitions carefully, ensuring customers are directed toward suitable alternatives and teams can refocus on new priorities. Collaborate with Growth teams on positioning, packaging, pricing, and go-to-market strategies for new offerings. Work closely with adjacent product areas, including Digital Presence and Domains, to ensure new solutions complement existing customer experiences. Define an AI-forward product strategy, identifying opportunities to integrate AI capabilities, automation, and agentic technologies across the portfolio. Assess how AI can enhance existing products, unlock new business opportunities, simplify customer experiences, or replace legacy solutions. Ensure new AI capabilities align with the broader platform strategy and complement the development of AI-native web presence products. Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of product managers, expanding the organization as the portfolio and business needs evolve. Align Product, Engineering, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Finance stakeholders around shared priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes. Establish a scalable operating model that encourages fast decision-making, efficient collaboration, and disciplined product development. Monitor competitors, market developments, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for differentiation. Translate market intelligence into actionable product and portfolio decisions that strengthen long-term competitiveness. Requirements: The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial product leader with broad experience across different industries, product categories, and business models. You should bring: Extensive product leadership experience across multiple companies, product types, and business models, with a strong ability to identify and evaluate new opportunities. A proven track record of managing multiple product lifecycles, from initial concepts and experimentation through launch, iteration, scaling, and discontinuation when necessary. First-hand experience learning from both successful and unsuccessful product initiatives and applying those insights to future decisions. Demonstrated success bringing AI-powered products or features to market, combined with an AI-native approach to everyday work and product development. Experience building product teams from the ground up, recruiting strong talent, and scaling teams as business needs grow. An entrepreneurial mindset, with strong ownership, initiative, and the ability to operate effectively within a larger organizational structure. Up-to-date knowledge of market dynamics, emerging technologies, and competitive trends, ideally supported by an active industry presence through writing, speaking, or professional discussions. Strong strategic thinking and commercial judgment, with the ability to distinguish promising opportunities from ideas that are unlikely to deliver meaningful value. Comfort operating in ambiguous environments, moving quickly from concepts to customer validation and actionable decisions. Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and align diverse perspectives. Candor, integrity, and the confidence to challenge established approaches while maintaining sound judgment and a commitment to doing the right things. Benefits: 100% remote working opportunity. Direct reporting line to the Chief Product Officer and close access to senior leadership. Significant autonomy to shape product strategy and influence the future direction of a diverse portfolio. Opportunity to build and lead a new product innovation team from the ground up. Ability to test and validate new ideas with a global customer base of millions and more than 35 million domains under management. Exposure to a wide range of product categories, including digital presence, email, security, marketing tools, and AI-powered solutions. Opportunity to work in an AI-first environment and influence the development of next-generation digital products. Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Growth, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Finance teams. Eastern US and Central European working-hours overlap required.