VP, Product

About Us We are Sila, a next-generation battery materials company. Our mission is to power the world’s transition to clean energy. To create this future, our team is building a better lithium-ion battery from the inside out today. We engineer and manufacture ground-breaking battery materials that significantly increase the energy density of batteries, while reducing their size and weight. The result? Smaller more powerful batteries that can unlock innovation in consumer devices and accelerate the mass adoption of electric cars to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels. We're tackling one of the biggest challenges of our time every day, and together we're redefining what's possible. Are you ready to be a part of a team committed to changing the world? Who You Are The Vice President of Product Management is responsible for leading the strategic direction, planning, execution, and optimization of the company’s product portfolio across multiple product categories, markets, and segments. This includes oversight of Product Management, Segment, Product Marketing ensuring cohesion across product planning, go-to-market execution, and sustained customer success. This role demands not just executional excellence but executive-level maturity, cross-functional influence, and commercial acumen. The VP must continuously balance customer needs, competitive positioning, technical feasibility, and business performance while leading a senior team and contributing to the broader direction of the company. Responsibilities and Duties Own and evolve the multi-product portfolio strategy, including expansion, sunsetting, and product line investments. Drive cross-functional alignment across RDE, sales, marketing, service, and operations to define the roadmap, including clearly setting business cases and priorities to deliver on Sila’s strategy. Lead the team to develop and maintain business cases for each product line. Ensure tight alignment between product direction and business metrics: revenue growth, margin, market share, customer satisfaction. Set and track performance KPIs, including adoption, NPS, CLTV, win/loss rates, and product margin. Drive go-to-market planning in partnership with sales leadership. Lead initial GTM execution; then support Sales and Program leaders in scaling revenue. Develop differentiated segment strategies based on customer personas, vertical markets, and use-case complexity. Lead the integration of customer feedback loops, competitive intelligence, and usage analytics into product planning. Develop leaders across Product, Marketing Segment roles. Guide long-term platform and technology planning with the CTO and RDE leaders. Represent the company externally with customers, partners, and in public forums. Must have experience and knowledge of high volume manufacturing operations and concerns in order to properly represent/understand the customer and to understand the product scaling, integration, and manufacturing requirements. Executive Leadership Expectations Manages laterally and upward, not just downward—can align strong, opinionated peers and hold strategic ground. Able to challenge the CEO and executive team respectfully, with clarity, data, and purpose. Excels at distinguishing what is known vs. assumed and ensuring the organization doesn't make costly bets on opinion. Handles cross-departmental tension (e.g., Sales vs. RD vs. Product) with maturity and fairness. Drives “straight talk” without politics, knows when to escalate, when to listen, and when to say no. Maintains focus and organizational cohesion during times of strategic ambiguity or market turbulence. Acts as the voice of the customer, not just in aggregate but through real-world, stakeholder-specific insight. Knowledge and Skill Requirements Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Engineering, Physical Sciences, or related technical discipline; MBA a strong plus. 5+ years in product management (10+ years preferred), with at least 5 ye ... (truncated, view full listing at source)