The Opportunity
Cirium is at a defining moment in its evolution. As the world’s most trusted provider of aviation analytics and insight, we are making bold investments in a multi‑year growth strategy—strengthening our market leadership, accelerating innovation, and expanding the value we deliver across the global aviation ecosystem.
Shape the Future of Global Aviation Intelligence
As VP Product Management, you will be a key member of the Leadership Team, accountable for defining and delivering the vision, strategy execution, and P&L performance of Cirium’s product portfolio. Working closely with the COO, VP Data and VP Technology as well as the wider Leadership team and RELX partners, you will define a clear, product strategy anchored in customer and market needs. This is a high‑impact role at the centre of decision‑making in a globally recognised aviation data and analytics business at a moment of significant transformation.
What You’ll Lead
* Own and continuously refine the multiyear portfolio strategy, aligned to Cirium’s growth vision
* Outside‑in product thinking, customer value discovery and a culture where teams anchor every decision in qualitative and quantitative customer insights
* Maintain a strong presence across the aviation ecosystem, and own the voice of the customer internally – through attendance at industry events, customer forums, startup networks
* Embed data ontology literacy across product teams, ensuring consistent definitions, metadata standards, and semantic structures that enable trusted, high‑quality data products
* Evaluate and guide AI‑powered product opportunities, ensuring thoughtful application of machine learning, generative AI, and automation consistent with customer value and responsible AI principles
* Lead, coach, and develop a world‑class product organization of Product Managers, User Experience designers, and Product Operations, entailing organisation design, career pathing and clear roles / responsibilities
* Partner with Technology to accelerate delivery via agile, empowered squads, ensuring clear prioritization, effective governance, and measurable customer and commercial outcomes.
* Partner with Innovation Team to bring transformational offerings to market
* Collaborate with commercial teams to build value propositions, packaging, and pricing; support strategic deals and renewals with data driven product narratives.
* Establish robust product governance mechanisms for prioritization, investment, and management of trade‑offs
* Oversee product lifecycle management, from discovery to landing in the market, ensuring repeatable, customer‑validated innovation and continuous improvement
* Ownership of organisation design, continuous review and development of critical capabilities, and role‑modeling world‑class customer‑led product practices
About You
Product Management & Industry Expertise
* Significant experience (5+ years) in senior product management roles within data, technology, aviation, analytics, or related B2B information industries
* Data, Ontology and AI‑fluency – proven understanding of data analytics, AI, ML and GenAI use cases in Product Development
* Demonstrated experience of scaling data or AI‑powered products, and data / analytics product capabilities
* Deep experience in customer‑obsessed product leadership. Spending time with customers, assessing quantitative and qualitative value creation, and grounding decisions in real workflows and needs
* Obsession with data‑driven and commercial decision‑making, with customer at the heart
* Strong commercial lens on P&L levers, pricing strategy, value‑based positioning and commercial implications of product decisions leading to profitable growth
Enterprise Leadership & Influence
* Proven experience operating in a global, matrixed environment, and developing product leaders to do the same
* Demonstrated ability to influence and align senior stakeholders, driving coherent decisions at scale
* Strong storytelling, narrative, and external communication skills
Why Join Cirium?
* Impact at Scale: Shape the strategy of a business whose insights power decisions across airlines, airports, financial institutions, technology innovators, and governments worldwide
* A Moment That Matters: Join at a pivotal time of investment, transformation, and bold ambition, backed by parent company RELX, a FTSE Top 20 business
* A Global Mission: Lead our purpose to “Power Every Decision Connected to Aviation.”
* Strong Values‑driven culture: Global team with high standards to achieve the best for our customers, backed by core ethos and values
Benefits
Base pay ranges:
New York: $130,200 - $241,800
New York City: $142,000 - $263,800
Rochester, NY: $118,300 - $219,800
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800
We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know.
Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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