Strategic Platform Leader — VP, Product & Growth

Medidata Solutions; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Medidata, headquartered in New York City, is seeking a Vice President of Strategy to shape the future of its multi-product platform and drive a rolling cross-functional roadmap over 18 months to 3+ years. You will align executive goals with product strategy across teams to enable scalable growth.

The role requires deep experience in healthcare tech and clinical trials, with a strong track record in strategic planning, market research, and leadership.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in product strategy, corporate strategy, or product leadership roles, ideally in healthcare, clinical trials, or enterprise software.
• Proven track record of leading strategic planning and roadmap development for complex, multi-product platforms.
• Deep understanding of the clinical trial ecosystem, regulatory environment, and healthcare technology landscape strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical, primary and secondary market research, business model, and financial modeling skills.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
• MBA or advanced degree in a related field is a plus

Responsibilities

• Define strategic direction and prioritization areas for a portfolio of products based on industry knowledge, understanding of market trends, customer needs and 3DS / Medidata vision.
• Act as a key partner to the executive team in defining and executing corporate growth strategies.
• Co-own the strategy of the Experience with the Experience Lead
• Assess build/buy/partner approach for strategic initiatives to compete effectively
• Direct market research, interpretation of output and go/no-go decisions
• Translate strategic priorities into an integrated 18 month to 3 year strategy and milestones for a suite of products, ensuring cross-product coherence and scalability.
• Highlight risks, trade-offs, and identify accelerators needed to achieve goals
• Guide conceptualization of new offerings and early definition of commercial model in partnership with Offering Management for offerings supporting product strategy via customer conversations, proposals and early adopter engagements
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams to ensure successful roadmap execution.
• Liaise with Offering Management, Global Marketing and Product Marketing to roll-out aligned GTM strategy for new offerings, product launches and features
• Facilitate alignment across departments, fostering transparency and shared accountability for strategic goals.
• Maintain strong market awareness by monitoring industry trends, competitive landscape and attending industry conferences
• Lead strategic customer conversations on new innovation areas to validate longer term roadmap, and generate feedback
• Collaborate with customer success and sales teams to gather and understand customer feedback and recommend strategic pivots as needed
• Showcase thought leadership and represent the company at key industry and customer events

Skills

Strategic planning

Roadmap development

Leadership

Market research

Financial modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

Medidata, headquartered in New York City, is seeking a Vice President of Strategy to shape the future of its multi-product platform and drive a rolling cross-functional roadmap over 18 months to 3+ years. You will align executive goals with product strategy across teams to enable scalable growth.

The role requires deep experience in healthcare tech and clinical trials, with a strong track record in strategic planning, market research, and leadership.