Director of Product Strategy and Commercialization in Montréal

TandemLaunch is a Canadian venture studio. Since 2010 we have created 30+ deep-tech ventures with a combined portfolio value exceeding $700M. We commercialize innovations in consumer electronics, hardware-enabled technologies, machine learning, and embedded systems, working directly with researchers from major university labs. We are one of very few venture studios globally with 15+ years of track record in building successful companies on research-backed deep tech.

About the Role

We are hiring a Director of Product Strategy and Commercialization to be the product-and-market voice inside several of our ventures at once. These are companies with IP-backed technologies from cutting edge university research, a founding team, and on their first steps to commercial traction. Your job is to support our founders in identifying who would pay, get in front of them, carry the conversation through technical evaluation to a paid pilot or a design win, and feed what you learn back into what the venture builds next. This is a leadership-track role that hinges on your ability to mentor and influence growing leaders. You will join our venture development team to help our ventures reach the necessary commercial traction to secure their next stage of financing.

What You'll Do

• Own customer and partner engagements end-to-end — from first conversation, through technical evaluation, to a paid pilot or design win.
• Own product positioning and the customer-facing materials that support it — product sheets, decks, demo strategies — across multiple ventures simultaneously.
• Turn what customers tell you into product direction.
• Run customer discovery and find the next market — new applications and adjacent segments for ventures that are starting to get traction.
• Represent ventures externally at industry events, partner meetings, and customer conversations.
• Mentor and directly work alongside our venture leads as the commercial half of each venture team.

What We're Looking For

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in business development, product management, or strategy within a startup environment.
• PhD/M.Sc/M.Eng degree or equivalent research-level technical fluency.
• Professional French and English.
• You have worked in ambiguity — as a product lead, founding PM, co-founder, applications or solutions engineer, or the first commercial hire at an early-stage company.

Also true of the people who thrive at TandemLaunch:

• Genuine curiosity about novel technology.
• You are comfortable navigating low-information environments to develop a strategy.
• You are honest about what you do not know.

What We Offer

• A seat at one of very few venture studios globally with 15+ years of track record in deep tech.
• Cross-portfolio exposure — ventures spanning AI, sensors, hardware, materials and audio in your first year.
• Participation in fund economics through TandemLaunch's employee incentive pool — long-term upside that grows with the portfolio.
• Direct mentorship from operators — co-founders, product leads and CEOs across the portfolio.
• A supportive team that values curiosity, initiative and collaboration.

TandemLaunch is committed to building a community of excellence, equity, and diversity. We welcome applications from women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, and other candidates who will enrich our ideas and perspectives.