[Hiring] VP of Product @Autura

Role Description

We are hiring a VP of Product to own our entire product portfolio and lead the next chapter of how Autura builds. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone as comfortable prototyping in the tools as they are setting strategy. You will unify a broad, multi-product surface into a coherent platform, install a modern discovery and delivery model, and build a product organization that ships faster than anyone in our category. You report directly to the CEO and partner as a peer with our CTO. Product and engineering are two pillars of the same house, and you own the product one.

What You Will Do

• Own the go-forward product strategy for the full Autura portfolio, making hard calls on what to unify, invest in, and retire.
• Set product direction from customer evidence and business outcomes, defending it under pressure.
• Take full ownership of discovery and prioritization so engineering leadership can focus on architecture and delivery.
• Partner with engineering in healthy, productive tension, owning tradeoffs that decide what gets built and in what order.
• Build and lead an AI-native product function, hiring, shaping, and coaching the team.
• Install a modern operating model: close to customers, evidence-driven prioritization, spec-driven and prototype-first development, and continuous shipping.
• Use AI to compress the path from idea to working software: rapid prototypes, working API specs with mock data, and agentic tooling.
• Drive growth bets that expand Autura beyond its core, including embedded payments and fintech opportunities in the towing vertical, and marketplace monetization.

Qualifications

• You build. This is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. You personally ship with AI: prototypes, working UI and flows, agents, internal tools.
• Senior product leadership experience, ideally including transforming a slow, legacy, or multi-product organization into a fast and focused one.
• Real fluency fusing product with design, UX, and frontend, and comfort operating through small, AI-accelerated pods.
• Sharp product judgment: challenge assumptions, follow the data (lost deals, churn, usage), and distinguish between product problems and execution problems.
• Strong customer instinct: get close to real end users and the sales floor, not just decision makers.
• Clear, direct communication with executives, the board, and your team.

Requirements

• Bonus points for experience in vehicle, mobility, logistics, dispatch, or marketplace software; payments or embedded-finance depth relevant to our monetization thesis.

Benefits

• Remote-first work environment in the US.
• Regular travel to spend time with customers and your team.
• Fast-paced work culture focused on user engagement and AI-driven product development.