🚀 VP of Product, Foundation | United States | Remote | Pax8

Join Pax8 as our VP of Product, Foundation and shape the future of the world's leading cloud marketplace platform, driving the product strategy behind the commerce engine that powers thousands of managed service providers across the globe.

🌟 Why This Role?

This is a rare opportunity to own the product vision for Pax8's largest and most strategically important portfolio. Foundation sits at the heart of our marketplace, enabling everything from product discovery and purchasing to provisioning, billing, subscriptions, integrations, and partner growth.

As AI reshapes software development and customer experiences, you'll help define how a modern, intelligent commerce platform evolves. You'll influence how thousands of partners buy, sell, manage, and grow through technology while building capabilities that support both hypergrowth and enterprise-grade financial rigor.

You'll join at a pivotal moment where platform scale, artificial intelligence, automation, and operational excellence converge, giving you the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on both Pax8 and the wider technology ecosystem.

💜 Life at Pax8

At Pax8, business is personal. We're passionate about creating an environment where people can do their best work while continuously learning and growing. Guided by our values of Compassionate Candor, Seek to Understand, We Before Me, Do What You Say, Light Up Learning, and Driven by Passion, we foster a culture built on trust, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

You'll join a global organization that embraces emerging technologies, invests heavily in learning, and empowers individuals to challenge conventional thinking while delivering exceptional outcomes for our partners.

🎯 What You'll Be Responsible For

📈 Define the Future of Commerce at Pax8

Establish and execute the long-term product vision for Foundation, Pax8's core commerce platform.
Create a strategic roadmap that balances operational excellence, compliance, financial controls, scalability, and growth.
Guide investment decisions across marketplace capabilities, billing, subscriptions, ordering, provisioning, analytics, integrations, and partner experiences.

💡 Drive Growth Through Product Innovation

Create frictionless experiences that improve partner acquisition, engagement, retention, and expansion.
Shape product experiences that help partners discover, purchase, manage, and maximize technology investments.
Identify new opportunities to increase platform adoption through analytics, recommendations, APIs, ecosystem integrations, and intelligent automation.

🤝 Lead Through Partnership

Act as the strategic product counterpart to the VP of Engineering, jointly driving outcomes across the Foundation platform.
Partner closely with Architecture, Finance, Operations, Commercial Leadership, Design, and User Research to align priorities and deliver results.
Establish clear ownership boundaries across a complex product ecosystem to ensure teams move quickly and effectively.

🧠 Build for an AI-Powered Future

Develop a point of view on how AI and agent-assisted experiences will transform partner commerce.
Guide teams through new ways of working that leverage AI to accelerate discovery, validation, delivery, and decision making.
Help evolve product practices to remain effective as technology and customer expectations continue to change.

👥 Develop Exceptional Product Talent

Lead and inspire a high-performing product management organization.
Create an environment where strategic thinking, commercial acumen, technical depth, and customer empathy flourish.
Coach leaders and product managers to operate effectively across a broad and complex portfolio.

🌍 Your Impact

Foundation is the engine behind the Pax8 marketplace. Your leadership will directly influence partner satisfaction, operational excellence, financial integrity, and future growth.

You'll help create the platform that thousands of businesses rely on every day while ensuring Pax8 is positioned to scale sustainably, innovate rapidly, and remain the trusted marketplace for technology professionals worldwide.

✅ What Success Looks Like

We're searching for someone who combines strategic vision with an ability to execute in highly complex environments.

You bring:

Demonstrated success leading large-scale product organizations with executive-level scope.
Proven experience owning complex marketplace, commerce, platform, SaaS, or partner ecosystem products.
Deep understanding of commerce journeys including purchasing, subscriptions, provisioning, billing, invoicing, and partner operations.
Strong experience balancing growth initiatives alongside governance, compliance, operational control, and scalability requirements.
Ability to influence across executive stakeholders, engineering leaders, operational teams, and commercial functions.
Strong understanding of platform architecture concepts and product decision-making within complex technical environments.
Experience leveraging AI and emerging technologies to improve product strategy, delivery, prioritization, and organizational effectiveness.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to move seamlessly between executive strategy, technical discussions, and customer-focused outcomes.
A customer-first mindset grounded in real-world experience serving businesses, partners, marketplaces, or technology ecosystems.
Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity while maintaining strategic clarity and organizational alignment.

🛡️ Trust and Hiring

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.

We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritising applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.

🌈 Inclusion Matters

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in United States.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive executive compensation package based on skills, experience, and market location
Annual performance bonus opportunity
Equity participation through Pax8 stock programs
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible paid time off
Paid parental leave
Retirement savings plans with company contribution opportunities
Learning and development investment
LinkedIn Learning access
Wellbeing resources and coaching support
Remote-first flexibility
Employee recognition programs
Company events and celebrations

📚 Growth & Development

There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.

🚀 About Pax8

Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life.

🔍 Background Checks

As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.

Equal Opportunities

Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes. Privacy notice: https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/

Base Salary Comp Range: $250k - $300k

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At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust‑based relationships — starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change.
By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you’re applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we’re excited to meet you.

Perks:

At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:

401(k) with Company Match
Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Employer-Paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
Flexible Open PTO
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Parental Leave
RTD EcoPass (eligible Colorado-based employees)

Please take a moment to review our Proprietary Rights and Non-Competition Agreement — this document outlines important information about your rights and responsibilities if you join our team.

Job Applicant Privacy Notice

About Us

Pax8 is the global AI and cloud Marketplace for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Pax8 connects service providers and technology companies on a unified platform to discover, buy, sell, deploy and manage technology solutions for SMBs. More than 47,000 IT partners and 800,000 SMBs rely on Pax8 for expertise, automation and real-time insights to stay productive, protected and prepared for the AI economy. Learn more at pax8.com.

Our purpose is to help every small business turn their dreams into reality through the power of technology.

Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, its business, and it IS personal. We embody Compassionate Candour by aiming to assist others with candid, actionable feedback. We Seek to Understand by being open, curious, and committed to learning. We believe in We Before Me, actively collaborating and seeking out diverse perspectives to ensure a win for Team Pax8. Our team takes pride in Do What You Say, taking ownership, honoring commitments, prioritizing, and delivering on promises. We encourage everyone to Light Up Learning by being brave and trying new ideas, embracing vulnerability, and sharing failures so everyone can learn. Finally, we are Driven by Passion, connecting personal passion to Pax8's mission, and remaining resilient in the face of adversity and uncertainty in pursuit of our goals.

At Pax8, we are passionate, creative, and humorously offbeat. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best!

VP of Product, Foundation