Chief Product & Technology Officer | Product & Technology Leadership - Ongoing & Future Opportunities

Banyan Software is seeking a Chief Product and Technology Officer for one of its portfolio companies, a vertical SaaS business serving a specific industry with mission-critical software. The role joins the leadership team, often reporting to the CEO, and owns product direction, technology strategy, engineering and product organizations, and platform architecture. This is a talent community for ongoing and future opportunities in the Banyan portfolio and is not an active requisition. Candidates whose background aligns will be contacted by an Executive Talent Acquisition Partner.

Responsibilities

Own product direction; Own the technology strategy; Own the engineering and product organizations; Own the platform architecture for a vertical SaaS business; Set product direction from customer and market insight; Own the technical foundation; Lead the shift to AI-native product and engineering; Build an organization that scales while remaining agile

Requirements

Hands-on experience leading product-led growth (PLG) in a B2B SaaS business, owning self-serve or product-qualified funnels, in-product onboarding and activation, usage-based expansion, or freemium/trial motions, with measurable outcomes on adoption, conversion, retention, or expansion revenue; Held accountability for both product management and engineering under one leadership seat; Shipped AI-embedded product capabilities with measurable customer outcomes and personally uses AI tools in daily work; Led a product and technology transformation (replatforming, modernization, AI integration, or product repositioning) while maintaining delivery momentum and customer trust; Built product analytics and experimentation into how the team works, using usage data to drive activation, conversion, and expansion decisions; Connected product and architecture decisions to revenue, retention, margin, and competitive positioning, including build vs. buy cases a CFO would accept; Designed or redesigned a data architecture that serves product analytics, BI, and AI as a unified asset; Owned a SaaS platform's security posture and compliance requirements (SOC 2, industry-specific standards), including managing a real incident; Built and scaled product and engineering teams, developed people into leaders, and created a culture where teams make decisions without escalating every call; Served as the CEO's primary product and technology partner, representing the product vision in executive, board, customer, and sales conversations

Benefits

A permanent home (buy, hold, and grow software companies for life); Autonomy with backing (product strategy, stack choices, team structure, delivery practices, and AI strategy remain with the leader; capital, shared services, and operating partners provided); A personal approach (family-office style operation); Legacy and continuity (brand, identity, and culture preserved); A peer network of portfolio company product and technology leaders