[Hiring] VP of Product and Engineering @Mews

Role Description

The hospitality industry is uniquely human, and it deserves technology that’s just as inspiring as the people behind it. At Mews, we’re transforming the industry with a platform that helps hotels run smarter, move faster and create better guest experiences.

You’ll work with smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. You’ll have autonomy and the trust to make good decisions and move quickly. And you’ll enjoy a real sense of purpose as you see the impact of what we’re building.

If you’re motivated by ownership, curiosity and meaningful impact, and are driven to deliver consistent high performance, you’ll feel at home here.

This role owns Product and Engineering for Back of House, one of the most complex, multi-service domains on the Mews platform. Back of House covers the operational core that hotel teams rely on every day, and it needs someone who can set the product direction and run the engineering behind it, together.

You'll own the full domain: strategy, roadmap, and the engineering org that builds it, working closely and collaboratively with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones, and reporting into senior leadership.

This isn't a narrow platform mandate. It spans product and engineering together, with the scope to make real calls on both, and the trust to run it as one connected domain.

Back of House software has to stay reliable at all times and keep improving, without ever pausing customer delivery to get there. The next phase of this role is about applying AI directly to the systems that support hotel teams, not just internal tooling, at a scale most engineering leaders never get to work at.

What You Would Do

• Own product and engineering strategy for Back of House end to end, across a genuinely multi-service architecture.
• Run globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones, building the structures that let them ship together.
• Build out a management team and develop senior ICs, growing a culture that holds up at scale.
• Improve reliability, performance and technical debt as ongoing disciplines, without stopping delivery to do it.
• Decide where AI genuinely belongs in the Back of House product, and ship AI-driven improvements that change how hotel teams work day to day.

AI Fluency Level 4: in this role that means going beyond using AI to move faster yourself. You'll decide where AI belongs in the Back of House product, understand the underlying models and infrastructure well enough to make real engineering calls about them, and have already shipped something where AI was a core part of the product, not a feature added on afterwards.

What You Would Bring

• Combined Product and Engineering ownership at VP level, with clear, end-to-end ownership of a complex, multi-service product domain.
• A track record running globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
• Experience operating inside a scaling SaaS business, ideally Series C through pre-IPO or recently public, as an operator rather than an adviser.
• Effective people leadership: managing managers, developing senior ICs, and building healthy team cultures at scale, plus a track record of improving reliability, performance and technical debt without stopping delivery.
• AI Fluency Level 4 or the equivalent hands-on experience: you've shipped AI as a genuine part of a product, not just used it to speed up your own workflow.

Nice To Have

• Hands-on experience in hospitality technology: PMS, POS, channel management, revenue management, or closely adjacent systems.
• Travel tech experience (airlines, GDS, travel management companies), or comparable operationally critical, high-availability B2B platforms.
• Founder or early-stage builder experience, having built products from zero to scale.

Salary Range

• Spain: €220.000 — €280.000 EUR
• UK: £140,000 — £260,000 GBP
• Netherlands: €220.000 — €280.000 EUR
• France: €220.000 — €280.000 EUR
• Germany: €220.000 — €280.000 EUR
• Sweden: 1 367 500 kr — 2 330 500 kr SEK
• United States: $280,000 — $350,000 USD
• Ireland: €220.000 — €280.000 EUR

Benefits

• Unlimited paid holiday (yes, really)
• Participation in our company share program
• Paid parental leave (6 months fully paid for primary caregivers, 2 months for secondary, available after one year of service)
• An annual Learning budget of €300 (and more for high performers) to support your development
• Monthly "EDGE" time to Explore, Develop, Grow, and Elevate yourself
• A work from anywhere policy with flexibility to work abroad for a few weeks each year
• Relocation options, available after one year
• Flexible, hybrid working options
• A home office setup budget to make your workspace your own and a monthly work-from-home allowance
• Claude tokens, so you can automate workflows and build smarter, more efficient ways of working

Life at Mews

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We value teams that reflect the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Different perspectives make better ideas, stronger products and a more welcoming company.

We also believe transparency is important when deciding if you're the right fit. Mews is an ambitious, high-pressure environment of continuous learning and high standards. Success here requires resilience, adaptability and a willingness to solve difficult problems.

• High autonomy means high responsibility. People are expected to take ownership and drive outcomes.
• Change is constant. We’re growing quickly and adapting as we scale.
• We’re remote-first, not relationship-free. Flexibility is core to how we work, but strong relationships still matter.
• AI is an integral part of our processes. It’s not here to steal people’s jobs, but to amplify efficiency and productivity.

If there's anything we can do to support you during the application process, let us know.

We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other protected characteristic.

If Mews sounds like the kind of environment where you'd thrive, we'd love to hear from you.