[Hiring] Vice President, Product @Patch

Role Description

We are looking for a hands-on Vice President, Product to lead AI innovation, own Patch’s product roadmap and lead our Product and Engineering organizations. The portfolio includes:

• Patch’s core platform
• Web and mobile apps
• Owned-and-operated digital products
• Advertising products developed in close partnership with Revenue

You will also spearhead Patch’s efforts to expand the impact of AI across every facet of the organization—from how our teams work to the products, services and experiences we create for customers and users.

This role is for a product builder who is obsessed with business outcomes—not output—and who can connect customer jobs, company priorities and technical reality. You will set direction, make hard trade-offs, stay close to the work and help strong teams ship products that matter to local users, businesses and event marketers.

What You Will Lead

• AI initiatives and development
• Lead AI products for end users, customers and internal workflows
• Product strategy and roadmap
• Jobs to Be Done product development
• Patch’s digital portfolio
• Revenue product partnership
• Product and Engineering leadership

Qualifications

• A record of building, shipping and scaling successful digital products, with clear evidence of business impact—not simply roadmap completion
• Meaningful technical credibility: experience as an engineer and/or managing engineering teams, and the ability to reason directly about architecture, data, feasibility and trade-offs
• Deep fluency in Jobs to Be Done product development and the judgment to apply it pragmatically
• Experience with scaled digital products for small and midsize businesses is a significant plus
• Exceptional prioritization: the ability to say no, concentrate resources on the few bets that matter and change course when evidence demands it
• A hands-on operating style
• A track record of developing talent, creating followership and leading with curiosity, candor, self-awareness and low ego

Requirements

• Patch’s products span consumer web and mobile, email, publishing, user-generated content, payments, data, search and advertising integrations
• The technology environment includes JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Drupal/PHP, AWS, Heroku, Pantheon, GCP/BigQuery/GA4, Stripe, Auth0/Okta, Typesense/OpenSearch, GitHub/Jira and modern AI tools
• You need not master the stack, but you must be technically fluent and able to earn the trust of engineers

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Ancillary benefits
• 401(k)
• Unlimited discretionary time off (DTO)
• 10 paid holidays a year
• Paid parental leave