General Manager – Domains Business & Vice President Product Management

Location:

South Germany (Munich area)

We are searching for a senior executive with both business leadership and group-level product responsibility.

This is a dual mandate role: full general management responsibility for an established domains-focused business, combined with group-level ownership of product management across the wider domains portfolio, including domains, DNS, SSL, and adjacent solutions.

The role offers significant commercial accountability, strategic visibility, and direct exposure to executive leadership within an international organization. The successful candidate will lead an organization of approximately 120 employees across product management, B2B sales, and growth marketing.

The opportunity

This executive will take ownership of a strategically important business at a time of growth, transformation, and portfolio development. The mandate is to drive performance today while shaping the future product and commercial direction of the broader domains business across the group.

Key responsibilities

Own full operational and commercial responsibility for the domains-focused business unit
Drive growth, profitability, and long-term value creation
Define and execute go-to-market and growth strategies
Ensure strong alignment across product, sales, and marketing
Capture synergies within a broader group structure
Own the commercial product strategy for domain-related offerings across the group
Define and execute a unified product roadmap across regions and customer segments
Drive portfolio standardization, scalability, and operational efficiency
Identify market trends, customer needs, and innovation opportunities

Functional Leadership

Direct leadership of three core areas:

Product Management

Own product strategy, roadmap, lifecycle management, and commercial performance
Lead platform evolution and partner/vendor strategy
Ensure strong cross-functional execution
Grow market share across B2B and B2B2C channels
Develop data-driven sales strategies and optimize performance
Build senior customer and partner relationships
Strengthen sales structures, processes, and execution

Growth Marketing

Build and scale a modern, AI-enabled B2B marketing organization
Drive automation, data integration, and demand generation effectiveness
Own pipeline generation and marketing-attributed revenue
Scale high-impact growth initiatives from pilot to operational maturity

Leadership

Lead, develop, and inspire high-performing teams across multiple functions
Manage a diverse organization including senior managers and direct reports
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and execution
Establish clear goals, ROI discipline, and end-to-end performance transparency

Candidate profile

Must-have

Senior leadership experience in technology, digital infrastructure, cloud, hosting, domains, DNS, SSL, SaaS, or related B2B environments
Strong commercial leadership background with P&L responsibility
Proven success leading cross-functional teams across product, sales, and/or marketing
Strong technical understanding and ability to operate credibly in product-led environments
Track record of driving growth, transformation, and organizational scale

Highly desirable

Experience in internet domains and adjacent services
Strong B2B sales and partner ecosystem leadership experience
Product management leadership including roadmap ownership and commercialization
Exposure to AI-enabled marketing, automation, and data-driven growth
Experience in international and matrixed organizations

Background

Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Business, or a related field
MBA or postgraduate qualification is a plus

Additional context

Highly confidential search; company and brand will be disclosed later in the process
Combination of operational business leadership and strategic group-level influence
Direct exposure to C-level leadership in an international environment

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