VP, Incubation Hub

Benefits

• A rare mandate. Decide what to build, reinvent, partner on, or retire across a diverse portfolio, with direct access to our CPO and the backing to act.
• Room to create. Spot new opportunities through an agentic lens and shape the next generation of tools for businesses that are starting and growing.
• Test ideas at real scale. Validate and launch new offerings with a base of millions of customers worldwide.
• Variety that keeps you sharp. From email and security to marketing tools, no two days look the same, making this ideal for leaders who thrive across product types.
• Define the strategy and roadmap for the Incubation Hub, deciding which new ideas to explore, test, scale or stop.
• Run fast, focused experiments to validate new product opportunities with real customers before committing to full investment.
• Get hands-on with existing products, including Concept Lab offerings and VPN, to understand their real performance and potential, and decide where to invest further or wind down.
• Lead stop and transition decisions with care, moving customers to the right solutions and refocusing teams on new priorities.
• Partner with Growth on positioning, packaging and pricing for new offerings, making sure they bring real value to customers and the business.
• Work closely with adjacent verticals such as Digital Presence and Domains to make sure new products connect naturally with what customers already use.
• Define how AI reshapes the portfolio, embedding AI-driven capabilities to deliver smarter, simpler experiences for customers.
• Use AI, automation, and an agentic lens to guide portfolio decisions, identifying where AI can strengthen existing products, unlock new offerings, or replace legacy solutions.
• Ensure AI capabilities connect across the broader platform, complementing the AI-native direction of Web Presence products.
• Build and lead a small, high-performing team of product managers, growing it as the work expands.
• Align Product, Engineering, Marketing, CX, and Finance around unified priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Establish a disciplined operating model that simplifies and scales execution.
• Monitor the competitive landscape and emerging technology trends.
• Translate market insights into actionable portfolio decisions.
• Position the portfolio to strengthen long-term differentiation and defensibility.
• Breadth of experience across different companies, product types, and business models, combined with creativity in spotting new opportunities.
• Experience taking products through full lifecycles multiple times, from idea and testing through launch, pivots and, where needed, stopping, with first-hand learning from what didn’t work as well as what did.
• A track record of bringing AI-powered products or features to market, and an AI-native way of working day to day.
• Experience building product teams from the ground up, hiring strong talent and growing the team as the work expands.
• Founder-like energy and ownership, combined with the ability to work well within a larger organization.
• A real, current pulse on the market and emerging tech, ideally with your own voice in the space (writing, speaking, or active in industry conversations).
• Comfort working in ambiguity, with a practical eye for which ideas are worth pursuing and the ability to bring them to customers.
• Leads with candor and integrity: comfortable challenging the status quo and committed to doing the right things in the right way.