VP, Product Management

Vice President, Product Management

Cornerstone OnDemand | Executive Leadership

About Cornerstone

Cornerstone helps organizations unlock the potential of their people through technology, content, expertise and specialized focus. Its solutions span learning, talent management, performance, recruiting and workforce development, serving millions of users across thousands of organizations worldwide.

Cornerstone is embarking on a transformative journey to build WorkforceOS, a next-generation, AI-native Human Capital Management (HCM) platform that unifies the employee lifecycle into a single, intelligent operating system for the modern workforce.

WorkforceOS will connect employee data, skills intelligence, learning, performance, talent and workforce capabilities to help organizations make smarter workforce decisions, develop their people and build the capabilities needed for the future.

About the Opportunity:

We are seeking a Vice President, Product Management to be a founding member of the WorkforceOS leadership team.

This is an opportunity to shape and lead the product strategy for a new generation of enterprise HCM software. You will own the product vision, strategy and roadmap for WorkforceOS, translating market opportunities, customer needs and emerging AI capabilities into a differentiated product offering.

You will build and lead a high-performing global Product Management organization, working closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Sales, Marketing and Customer Success to bring the vision to life.

As a key member of the WorkforceOS leadership team, you will partner directly with the GM to define the product's strategic direction, establish its market positioning and drive its commercial success.

Beyond WorkforceOS, you will work closely with GMs and product leaders across Cornerstone's business lines to identify strategic opportunities, drive portfolio alignment and create synergies across the broader Cornerstone ecosystem.

This role requires a combination of product vision, strong execution discipline, customer obsession, commercial acumen and the ability to build a product organization from the ground up.

In this role you will...

1.Product Vision & Strategy

•Define and own the product vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap for WorkforceOS, aligned with the overall business strategy and growth objectives.

•Shape the evolution of WorkforceOS into a unified, AI-native HCM platform connecting the employee lifecycle, workforce data, skills intelligence and organizational capabilities.

•Identify opportunities to differentiate WorkforceOS in the competitive HCM landscape through innovation, simplicity, intelligence and superior customer experiences.

•Translate market insights, customer needs, competitive intelligence and emerging technology trends into clear product strategies and investment priorities.

•Drive a platform-first product philosophy, balancing foundational capabilities, reusable services and differentiated application experiences.

•Establish clear product principles, prioritization frameworks and decision-making mechanisms to guide product investments.

2. AI-First Product Innovation

•Champion an AI-first product philosophy, embedding AI, intelligent automation, predictive analytics and agentic capabilities into the WorkforceOS experience.

•Identify opportunities to leverage AI for workforce intelligence, skills inference, personalized employee experiences, talent recommendations and intelligent HR workflows.

•Drive the evolution from traditional systems of record and systems of engagement toward intelligent systems of action and decision-making.

•Partner with AI, Data Science and Engineering teams to translate emerging AI capabilities into meaningful, commercially viable customer outcomes.

•Ensure responsible AI principles, transparency, trust and governance are embedded into product design.

3. Product Portfolio & Roadmap Management

•Own the end-to-end product portfolio and roadmap, balancing new capabilities, platform investments, customer commitments and technical modernization.

•Define product requirements, outcomes, success metrics and investment priorities across product areas.

•Establish a disciplined product development lifecycle, from discovery and validation through delivery, launch and continuous improvement.

•Drive prioritization across competing customer, market and business needs, making clear trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term platform strategy.

•Ensure seamless experiences and interoperability across WorkforceOS modules and the broader Cornerstone ecosystem.

•Define and track product KPIs, including adoption, engagement, customer satisfaction, time to value, retention and revenue contribution.

4. Customer & Market Leadership

•Build a deep understanding of the global HCM market, including customer needs, competitive dynamics, emerging technologies and industry trends.

•Engage directly with CHROs, HR leaders, customers and strategic prospects to understand their challenges and validate product direction.

•Establish strong customer feedback and product discovery mechanisms to continuously improve product-market fit.

•Develop relationships with industry analysts, advisory groups and thought leaders to understand and influence the evolution of the HCM market.

•Partner with strategic customers to validate new capabilities, lead design partnerships and accelerate product adoption.

•Develop compelling product positioning and differentiation in partnership with Sales and Marketing.

5. Commercial & Go-to-Market Leadership

•Partner with the GM and business leadership to define product packaging, pricing, tiering and monetization strategies.

•Collaborate with Sales, Marketing and Customer Success to develop and execute go-to-market strategies across new customer acquisition, upsell and cross-sell.

•Ensure product investments are aligned with commercial opportunities, customer value and business growth objectives.

•Support strategic customer engagements, executive briefings and major sales opportunities.

•Partner with Customer Success to drive adoption, customer satisfaction, retention and expansion.

•Translate product capabilities into compelling value propositions and measurable business outcomes.

6. Product Organization & Leadership

•Build, lead and develop a world-class Product Management organization, including product leaders and individual product managers across multiple product domains.

•Establish clear product ownership, organizational structure, accountability and decision-making frameworks.

•Develop a strong product management culture grounded in customer obsession, data-driven decisions, speed, innovation and execution excellence.

•Set high standards for product discovery, strategy, roadmap management, product specifications and outcome measurement.

•Develop future product leaders and create an environment that attracts and retains exceptional talent.

•Foster strong partnerships with global Engineering, Design, Data Science and business teams.

7. Cross-Functional & Executive Partnership

•Work closely with the GM of WorkforceOS to translate business strategy into product priorities, investment decisions and measurable business outcomes.

•Establish strong partnerships with the GMs of Cornerstone's business lines to align product strategy, identify synergies and drive opportunities for integration, collaboration and portfolio-wide innovation.

•Work across business lines to identify opportunities for WorkforceOS to leverage, extend and unify existing Cornerstone capabilities, while defining clear product boundaries, ownership and investment priorities.

•Partner closely with the VP of Engineering and engineering leadership to jointly drive product delivery, platform evolution, technical feasibility and customer outcomes.

•Collaborate with Cornerstone's global Product, Technology and executive leadership teams to ensure alignment between WorkforceOS and the broader company strategy.

•Drive effective operating cadences, portfolio reviews, roadmap governance and executive communication across relevant stakeholders.

•Represent WorkforceOS in executive forums, strategic customer engagements and industry events.

You'vegot what it takes if you have:

•15+ years of experience in Product Management, with significant experience building and scaling enterprise B2B SaaS products.

•8+ years of experience leading and developing Product Management teams, including senior product leaders.

•Proven experience owning product strategy and roadmaps for complex, multi-product enterprise software platforms.

•Demonstrated ability to build products from early-stage concepts through market launch and global scale.

•Strong understanding of enterprise HCM, HR technology, workforce management or adjacent enterprise SaaS domains.

•Experience building AI-enabled products and translating AI, machine learning, intelligent automation or agentic capabilities into customer value.

•Strong commercial acumen, with experience partnering on pricing, packaging, monetization and go-to-market strategy.

•Demonstrated ability to engage with senior executives, customers, industry analysts and strategic partners.

•Experience influencing senior stakeholders and navigating complex product portfolio decisions across multiple business lines.

•Excellent strategic thinking, communication, influencing and organizational leadership skills.

•Experience leading global, distributed and cross-functional teams.

Leadership Attributes

•Product Visionary: Able to see where enterprise HCM and workforce technology are heading and translate that vision into differentiated products.

•Customer Obsessed: Deeply understands enterprise customers and consistently advocates for solving their most important problems.

•AI-Native Mindset: Thinks beyond incremental AI features and understands how AI can fundamentally transform enterprise workflows and experiences.

•Commercially Minded: Connects product decisions to revenue growth, customer adoption, retention and business outcomes.

•Strong Operator: Balances long-term strategy with execution discipline, prioritization and measurable results.

•Enterprise Influencer: Builds strong relationships across business lines, influences executive stakeholders and navigates complex portfolio-level decisions.

•Organizational Builder: Has the ability to attract, develop and lead exceptional product talent.

•Collaborative Leader: Builds strong partnerships across Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing and the broader executive organization.

The Opportunity
This is a unique opportunity to build a category-defining enterprise platform and shape the future of how organizations understand, develop and activate their workforce, while helping define the next chapter of Cornerstone's broader product portfolio.

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