About the role
Be bold, think big and grow with us! At MARKT-PILOT, we're on a mission to create real value for the industrial manufacturing industry and set a new standard in the spare parts business. As a fast-growing B2B scale-up, we enable comprehensive market transparency for the first time. To achieve this, we combine strong momentum with clear intention: we learn quickly, test constantly, and trust our teams with the autonomy and flexibility to turn ideas into outcomes. It's an environment shaped by hands-on builders who challenge the status quo, take ownership and are driven to solve real problems with bold thinking and action. Join a team that moves fast, grows smarter every step, and succeeds together. Be part of our success story and join us as VP Product Strategy ! As VP Product Strategy you act as the strategic bridge between customers, product development, and market innovation. You translate real-world pricing challenges and market insights into product strategy and help shape how our platform evolves into a category-defining solution for Pricing Performance. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and customers, you turn vision into scalable, customer-validated capabilities. \n Your Mission: Define and evolve product strategy: Shape the strategic direction of our platform, translating customer challenges, market dynamics, and emerging trends into actionable roadmap priorities. Identify and unlock growth opportunities: Expand the platform vision across the aftermarket ecosystem, including services, lifecycle pricing, and commercial performance analytics. Act as the voice of the customer: Engage directly with customers and prospects to deeply understand pricing workflows and ensure product decisions reflect real operational needs and measurable value. Drive product co-creation: Partner closely with engineering and solution engineering to translate customer insights into prototypes, experiments, and scalable product capabilities. Establish feedback and innovation loops: Build structured co-creation models including design partners, beta programs, and advisory feedback cycles to accelerate validation and learning. Lead customer advisory initiatives: Own and develop the Customer Advisory Council to shape roadmap direction and strengthen strategic customer relationships. Build a product community: Foster peer exchange, shared learning, and product evangelism through a strong network of engaged customers. Shape a new category: Help define and establish the Pricing Performance category, positioning our platform as a modern alternative to legacy pricing systems. Represent Markt-Pilot externally: Act as a thought leader in industry events, customer forums, and strategic discussions with senior stakeholders. Your Skills: Experience: You bring 10+ years of experience in pricing, product strategy, commercial transformation, or enterprise software leadership within B2B environments. Domain Expertise: You have deep knowledge of industrial pricing, aftermarket business models, pricing workflows, governance, and adoption challenges. Strategic Mindset: You are able to translate complex customer pain points into scalable product strategies and business-relevant software capabilities. Executive Presence: You are comfortable engaging senior commercial and operational leaders and leading high-impact strategic discussions. Systems Thinking: You understand enterprise ecosystems including ERP, CRM, CPQ, analytics, and pricing technologies. Product & Technical Collaboration: You have experience working closely with product and engineering teams to bring ideas from concept to scalable solutions. Customer-Centricity: You have a track record of building customer advisory programs, co-creation models, or product communities. Cross-functional Leadership: You excel at collaborating across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success to drive alignment and outcomes. Your