VP, Strategy & Product Enablement

Stored Energy Systems•Longmont, CO

8h•$200,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

The VP, Strategy & Product Enablement, is responsible for establishing and enabling Stored Energy Systems strategic planning and product portfolio discipline as the business scales. Reporting to the CFO and sponsored by the CEO, this role acts as a cross-functional integrator and force multiplier—bringing rigor, clarity, and economic discipline to profitable growth, product investment, and capital allocation decisions. The role ensures leadership has a credible fact base, clear trade-offs, and repeatable processes to guide long-term value creation. This position is designed for a senior individual contributor with strong enterprise influence, not a functional manager or PMO.

Requirements

12–18+ years in strategy, portfolio, product, or general management
Demonstrated experience building strategy, product, or portfolio processes in scaling organizations
Demonstrated track record in delivering growth and winning market share
Enterprise-level strategic thinking grounded in economic reality
Strong financial fluency (P&L, margins, capital trade-offs)
Solid understanding in setting product definitions of IT systems, such as ERP, CRM, etc.
Ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear, executive-level recommendations
Credible partner to senior executives; able to influence without authority
Strong facilitation, communication, and executive-level writing skills

Nice To Haves

Experience in manufacturing, industrial, engineered products and systems, or capital-intensive environments strongly preferred
Prior exposure to PE-backed or board-governed environments preferred or successes with Board / Enterprise approved substantial / transformational product investments

Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategic Planning
Support development and maintenance of the company’s 3–5 year strategic plan
Establish and manage a repeatable annual strategic planning cadence, distinct from budgeting
Translate strategy into enterprise priorities and initiatives
Facilitate executive alignment on strategic choices, sequencing, and constraints
Partner with CEO, CFO and the rest of ELT as needed to prepare board- and PE-ready strategic materials
Product Portfolio & Lifecycle Enablement
Establish and institutionalize an enterprise product portfolio framework
Define and embed product lifecycle stages (introduce, grow, optimize, harvest, exit)
Enable clear product ownership and decision accountability across product families
Introduce economic decision criteria (revenue, margin, complexity, capital intensity) based on outside-in perspectives (examples: total addressable markets, market segmentations, competitive landscape, etc.)
Support portfolio rationalization and targeted investment decisions
Capital & Resource Allocation Support
Partner with Finance to align strategy and product decisions with capital allocation discipline
Support prioritization of major growth initiatives
Define success metrics and kill criteria for strategic investments
Ensure resource deployment aligns with enterprise priorities and return thresholds
Cross-Functional Enablement
Act as a trusted partner to Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Finance leaders
Facilitate structured decision-making without adding bureaucracy
Introduce common frameworks and language for strategy and product discussions
Improve decision quality across the enterprise through clarity and focus
Capability Building & Scale
Build durable planning and portfolio processes that transition to functional ownership
Identify future strategy and product management capability needs
Support onboarding of additional resources as the company scales
Ensure long-term sustainability without dependency on the role