Vice President, Product Platform Transformation

Overview At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere. Team Overview Our Product team leads the direction, coordination, output, quality, and enhancements to PowerSchool’s product portfolio. This dynamic, multi-functional team ensures the effective rollout of new products across the platform, packages and positions products to appeal to consumers, and helps set the future direction and pace of innovation in our organization. Responsibilities Description VP Product Platform Transformation is a strategic, operational, and cross-functional executive responsible for driving a critical high visibility Platform build and product transformation initiative at PowerSchool. This role, reporting to the CEO, is expected to lead PowerSchool’s platform acceleration effort working across a variety of internal and external/BoD stakeholders. This leader will partner with the CPO, R&D, Finance, Cloud Operations, and GTM teams to ensure the company delivers high-quality, high-impact products with operational excellence, customer-centricity, and financial discipline. As the company refines its future platform strategy and works with external partners on customer-centered design, product strategy, architecture, and rapid build execution, this leader will serve as the interim Platform Lead / business owner for the initiative. In this capacity, the role will help translate CEO and investor ambition into a practical roadmap, coordinate cross-functional decision-making, ensure internal teams and external partners are operating against a shared set of priorities. This role is therefore both a durable functional leader and a high-impact transformation operator. Your day-to-day job will consist of: Product Strategy Leadership Partner with executive leadership to define and operationalize the roadmap for a future-state platform strategy spanning multiple products, workflows, and user personas. Help create the governance, planning mechanisms, and KPI structure needed to manage both existing product commitments and platform innovation efforts in parallel. Partner with Product, Finance, Engineering, Support, Services, and Cloud Ops to optimize product investments, COGS, and contribution margins, balancing customer experience with operational efficiency. Platform Transformation Leadership Lead the day-to-day orchestration of PowerSchool’s platform acceleration initiative, serving as the connective tissue across executive sponsors, internal functional leaders, and external partners. Partner closely with the CEO and executive sponsors to define scope, sequencing, success metrics, and stage-gate decisions for the platform program. Ensure the platform effort does not operate in a vacuum by mobilizing the right subject matter experts, customer references, internal artifacts, and technical inputs at the right moments. Serve as a primary operating lead for the platform program’s governance model, including steering committee preparation, decision framing, issue escalation, and follow-through. Partner closely with Product, Finance, and GTM leadership to evaluate, refine, and execute pricing & packaging strategies for new platform. Define and track platform-transformation KPIs, including strategic milestone delivery, customer validation progress, prototype adoption signals, cross-functional dependency health, and readiness for scale. Build dashboards, analytics infrastructure, and review cadences to surface risks early, drive continuous improvement, and ensure accountability across Product and R&D. Consolidate customer, usage, and operational insights to inform prioritization and strategic direction. Cross-Functional Execution & Release Leadership Ensure major platform releases are supported by the right internal readiness across implementation, services, support, customer success, and field teams. Lead cross-functional coordination for major releases involving Product, R&D, Cloud Operations, Customer Success, Support, Marketing, and GTM teams. Ensure alignment of priorities, cross-team dependencies, delivery timelines, quality commitments, and customer-facing readiness. AI-Driven Operational Efficiency & Automation Partner with Engineering, IT, and Product to select and deploy AI solutions that enhance decision-making, eliminate manual work, and improve team throughput. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications 15+ years in B2B SaaS / Cloud product operations, product strategy, or product management, including senior leadership responsibilities. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience. Experience leading large-scale cross-functional transformation programs that cut across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, and Operations. Experience helping define or operationalize platform strategies across multi-product software portfolios, including roadmap sequencing, dependency management, and stakeholder alignment. Experience operating within a $500M-$1B+ ARR, multi-product SaaS or Cloud Platform environment. Demonstrated track record improving product performance and customer satisfaction at scale. Deep familiarity with modern product & engineering tools (roadmapping, backlog, analytics, voice of customer, monitoring). Experience partnering closely with Customer Success, Support, Sales, and GTM teams serving enterprise or institutional customers. Key Competencies Enterprise Platform Experience: Connects customer workflows, product strategy, technical architecture, operating model, and economics into a coherent transformation path. Strategic Systems Thinker: Capable of designing operating models, not just individual processes. Highly Data Fluent: Adept at defining, instrumenting, interpreting, and operationalizing product and customer metrics. Program & Portfolio Management Excellence: Drives structured execution and ensures cross-functional follow-through. Stakeholder Leadership: Skilled at aligning CEO, Product, R&D, CS, Support, and GTM around shared priorities. Change Leadership: Drives adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working across diverse teams. Customer-Obsessed: Anchors decisions in customer outcomes and real-world use cases. Compensation & Benefits PowerSchool offers the following benefits: Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D) Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Comprehensive 401(k) plan Generous Parental Leave Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO) Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program Tuition Reimbursement Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $169,500 - $299,300 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters. EEO Commitment PowerSchool is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process, please let us know by emailing View email address on click.appcast.io. #J-18808-Ljbffr