Lead the innovation pipeline as VP of New Product Development, identifying and shaping product opportunities, collaborating across functions, and ensuring successful commercialization and market strategies.
Vice President, New Product Development
Description of the Role:
IANS Research is seeking a Vice President of New Product Development to lead the front end of our innovation pipeline. Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, this role will identify, validate, and shape high-impact product opportunities that extend and scale IANS’ information services platform. You will own the process of taking an idea from concept to validated business case, have shared accountability for execution and play a critical role in shaping how those initiatives are ultimately commercialized. Success in the role will be based on generation of a robust pipeline of compelling initiatives, and the ultimate achievement of underlying financial targets and engagement metrics.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the front-end of product innovation: identify unmet customer needs, size market opportunities, and build evidence-based business cases.
- Partner with Product, Technology, Research, Marketing, and Sales to translate concepts into executable initiatives.
- Serve as a partner on commercialization and go-to-market strategy to ensure new initiatives have a clear path to adoption and return.
- Contribute input to the frameworks used for assessing opportunity size, competitive positioning, and fit within IANS’ portfolio.
- Act as the internal champion for major new product initiatives, while applying a disciplined approach to testing, validation, and ROI.
Non-Negotiable Background Experience Required:
- 10+ years of experience in information services, SaaS, or data-driven product businesses
- Proven track record in market sizing, financial modeling and customer discovery
- Strong and successful track record of leading products from ideation to go-to-market
- Demonstrated experience in evolving the platforms of subscription-based, content-driven businesses to drive client engagement and growth over time
- Experience leveraging AI and data science capabilities to drive product innovation.
- Outstanding cross-functional collaborator with a history of influencing successful teams
- Proven ability to understand and support the workflows of diverse, demanding, sector-focused personas.
- Experience in cybersecurity is a plus but not required.
Target companies/roles
Ideal candidate has direct new product development experience in one or more of the below company types:
- Full-service information platforms (e.g., Bloomberg, S&P/IHS, FactSet)
- Best-in-class sector-focused solutions (e.g., GreenStreet, Pitchbook)
- Research, consulting, and advisory companies with established digital offerings
Other
- The idea candidate is local to or in easy travel distance from the Boston area. Remote candidates will be considered assuming a minimum commitment of 4-5 days in office/month.
Top Skills
AI
Data Science
SaaS
IANS Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
2 Center Plaza, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02108, US, Boston, MA, United States, 02108
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