CPO | VP Product Recruiters

CPO | VP Product executive search for North American, Western European, and Australian companies

The position of Chief Product Officer has garnered a great deal of importance and visibility within many companies over the past few years. For many, it has become essential to employ an individual at the C-Level to fully address top tier duties such as planning, budgeting, and overall product line expansion while utilizing a professional in a VP of Product role to properly structure the organization and steer direct development. Particular approaches certainly depend on the size of the company and its current path and trajectory of growth, but the need to place strong performers in either of these positions is more crucial than ever given the increasingly rapid evolution of product lines seen within industries in all verticals.

Current numbers regarding time spent in a given position
Approximately 40% of Chief Product Officers spend 2 years or less in a particular role. The reasons for this short period of time across the board vary, but we’ve found that a few seem to surface on a fairly regular basis.

Quite often we’ve seen an organization hire an individual who didn’t have the proper skill set to manage the product offerings at a given stage of growth. Another factor regularly encountered is the lack of a cohesive strategy to determine what team members will direct the various components of the overall product approach to market. A number of companies have also told us that the previous person in the CPO role simply didn’t have the proper strategic insight and abilities for their organization even though they may have been effective at another company or in a VP of Product position within their own structure.

The lesson from this is that it’s crucial to incorporate and analyze a good deal of information when initiating a search for a new CPO to determine what type of person will succeed and the specific characteristics and skills they will need to help lead the company to its outlined goals. The CPO | VP Product Recruiters at Renascent Solutions employ a detailed, performance-based template to construct a full outline of the type of candidates who will be able to hit the ground running and successfully integrate all product-related and ancillary departments within an organization to ensure that customer and corporate goals are met and surpassed.

Characteristics and performance traits of outstanding CPO’s and VP’s of Product

• Collaboration and trust in team members
• Ability to master product details and range of application
• Leadership
• Communication
• Analytical and data-related skills
• Ability to devise and implement short and long–term strategies

Chief Product Officer executive search professionals providing high-technology companies with superb C-Level employees
The CPO | VP Product recruiters at Renascent Solutions have been helping businesses locate and hire exceptional corporate leaders in product specific roles for over 20 years in a number of verticals. Our retained approach is unique in the industry (Retained Recruitment), and our ability to locate and prompt top producers in product-related positions to take on a new challenge is unmatched.