Vice President of Global Product Advocacy & Market Engagement | SaaS | Remote | 50% to 75% Travel

<div><br/><br/><strong>About the Opportunity</strong><br/><br/>Ellucian is on a mission to power higher education, so institutions can empower student success. Through cutting-edge technology, we enable institutions to transform the lives of students and the communities they serve.<br/><br/>We are seeking an inspirational and visionary<strong> Vice President of Global Product Advocacy & Market Engagement </strong>to lead how Ellucian shares its product story to the market by amplifying narratives crafted and curated through Solutions Marketing. This role translates product vision into advocacy and momentum by carrying those narratives consistently across regions and audiences, connecting innovation to real institutional outcomes, and reinforcing Ellucian's leadership in responsible, AI-powered transformation.<br/><br/>At Ellucian, we believe that higher education is the foundation for individual and societal progress. Product Evangelism is a force multiplier for that mission. It brings Ellucian's strongest storytellers into a cohesive, scalable motion that increases market understanding, strengthens executive credibility, and accelerates adoption of emerging solutions. This function also creates a disciplined feedback loop from the field back into Solutions Marketing and Product to refine message deployment, proof points, and readiness.<br/><br/><strong><strong>Where you will make an impact</strong></strong><br/><ul><li>Tell the product story across regions: Operationalize a global evangelism cadence that ensures Solutions Marketing narratives are delivered consistently across geographies, segments, and audiences, with appropriate regional adaptation.</li><li>Amplify Ellucian innovation and product vision: Lead thought leadership, executive presentations, keynotes, event strategy, and customer executive briefings that bring product strategy to life and build confidence in Ellucian's roadmap and outcomes.</li><li>Drive advocacy and momentum for emerging solutions: Build and scale advocacy motions including customer champions, practitioner communities, partner amplification, and outcome stories that validate product impact and accelerate adoption.</li><li>Build and orchestrate a bench of elite storytellers: Identify, develop, and coordinate product storytellers across Product, Engineering, Services, Customer Success, and regional GTM teams, improving narrative fluency, executive readiness, and delivery quality.</li><li>Activate Solutions Marketing messaging through market-ready assets: Partner with Solutions Marketing to translate messaging into high-impact evangelism content such as executive scripts, demo narratives, talk tracks, event programming, and reusable storytelling kits for regional teams.</li><li>Create a feedback loop to refine and validate key messages: Establish mechanisms to capture field insights such as objections, competitive signals, win and loss themes, and regional nuance, and return structured feedback to Solutions Marketing and Product to improve narrative deployment and readiness.</li><li>Extend reach into strategic growth regions: Partner with regional leaders to increase visibility and credibility in areas prioritized for global growth through targeted forums, communities, and institutional engagement.</li></ul><br/><strong>What you will bring</strong><br/><ul><li>Executive leadership and operating maturity</li><li>15+ years of progressive experience across product evangelism, product marketing, go-to-market, strategy, communications, developer relations, or related market-facing leadership in enterprise software or SaaS, including 7+ years leading teams and leaders.</li><li>Proven ability to operate at the executive leadership level in a matrixed organization, aligning senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success.</li><li>Demonstrated excellence in building operating cadences, planning rhythms, and measurable program execution across a global footprint.</li></ul><br/><strong>Market-facing evangelism and external presence</strong><br/><ul><li>Recognized executive presence and credibility as a public-facing spokesperson, comfortable in high-stakes forums including keynotes, customer executive briefings, analyst briefings, media opportunities, and partner events.</li><li>Track record of developing thought leadership programs that drive market awareness, category understanding, and adoption momentum.</li></ul><br/><strong>Narrative execution and message discipline (in partnership with Solutions Marketing)</strong><br/><ul><li>Demonstrated ability to activate and scale messaging owned by Solutions Marketing by translating it into compelling stories, presentations, demos, event programming, and executive scripts that land with specific audiences.</li><li>Strong editorial judgment and coaching capability to drive message discipline across a broad bench of storytellers and executives, ensuring consistency without owning the core messaging function.</li></ul><br/><strong>Advocacy systems and community-led growth</strong><br/><ul><li>Experience building advocacy engines, including customer champions, reference motions, practitioner communities, and scalable engagement programs that create authentic proof and amplification.</li><li>Ability to define and run metrics-driven programs that demonstrate impact, reach, engagement, and downstream influence on pipeline, adoption, and retention.</li></ul><br/><strong>GTM partnership, enablement, and feedback loops</strong><br/><ul><li>Demonstrated success partnering with Solutions Marketing, Sales Enablement, and regional GTM leaders to drive field readiness and adoption through repeatable processes, not one-off efforts.</li><li>Strong ability to synthesize market signals, win and loss insights, objections, and regional nuance into actionable feedback that improves messaging deployment, enablement effectiveness, and product-market fit.</li></ul><br/><strong>Team building and talent development</strong><br/><ul><li>Proven experience hiring, coaching, and scaling high-performing teams across geographies, including program leads and senior storytellers, with a culture of accountability and cross-functional collaboration.</li></ul><br/><strong>Travel</strong><br/><ul><li>Willingness to travel for major customer engagements, strategic events, and regional alignment.</li></ul> <br/><strong>What makes #Ellucianlife</strong><br/><br/><ul><li>Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision </li><li>Flexible time off </li><li>Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests</li><li>401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future</li><li>Parental Leave</li><li>5 charitable days to support the community that supports us</li><li>Telemedicine</li><li>Wellness<ul><li>Headspace Care (mental health)</li><li>Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)</li></ul></li><li>RethinkCare & Wellthy- caregiver support</li><li>Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups </li><li>Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team</li><li>We Foster a learning culture with:<ul><li>Education Assistance Program </li><li>Professional development opportunities</li><li>LinkedIn Learning </li></ul></li></ul><br/>#LI-JG1<br/><br/>#LI-Remote</div>

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