Vice President, Product
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Vice President, Product based in United States.
This is a hands-on executive product leadership role with responsibility for product strategy, innovation, and execution across a broad digital portfolio.
You will lead Product and Engineering while shaping a roadmap grounded in customer needs, business priorities, and measurable outcomes.
A major focus will be expanding the practical use of AI across products, customer experiences, and internal workflows.
You will guide the evolution of web and mobile experiences, digital products, and advertising solutions in close partnership with commercial teams.
The role calls for a technically fluent leader who stays close to customers, data, prototypes, and delivery rather than operating solely at a strategic level.
You will also develop high-performing teams, improve decision-making, and create strong alignment across product and engineering.
This remote-first opportunity offers significant influence over product direction in a mission-driven digital environment serving millions of users.
Accountabilities
Lead AI innovation: Drive the development and adoption of AI-powered products for users, customers, and internal teams, identifying opportunities to improve experiences, workflows, and business performance.
Own product strategy and roadmap: Translate company objectives and customer needs into a focused product strategy, defining priorities, sequencing, measurable outcomes, and trade-offs.
Drive customer-centered product development: Establish and advance a pragmatic Jobs to Be Done approach using customer evidence, prototyping, validation, experimentation, and post-launch learning.
Lead the digital product portfolio: Guide the evolution of core web and mobile experiences, email, publishing capabilities, user-generated content, payments, data, search, and other shared platform capabilities.
Partner on revenue products: Work closely with commercial leadership to develop advertising and other customer-facing products that address genuine market needs and contribute to measurable growth.
Lead Product and Engineering: Create strong operating alignment between the two functions, improve decision quality and execution, develop talent, and foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, and collaboration.
Stay close to execution: Engage directly with customers, inspect data, prototype solutions, evaluate technical trade-offs, and work with teams to ensure product decisions translate into meaningful outcomes.
Build organizational capability: Develop strong product and engineering leaders, establish effective ways of working, and create an environment where teams can perform at a high level.
Optimize for business impact: Prioritize investments based on customer value, company objectives, technical feasibility, and evidence, while being prepared to change direction when new information warrants it.
Product leadership experience: Demonstrated success building, launching, and scaling digital products with measurable business impact, rather than focusing solely on roadmap delivery.
Technical credibility: Experience as an engineer and/or engineering leader, with the ability to engage meaningfully in discussions around architecture, data, feasibility, technology, and trade-offs.
Jobs to Be Done expertise: Strong knowledge of Jobs to Be Done product development and the judgment to apply the methodology pragmatically without introducing unnecessary process.
Digital product experience: Experience with scaled digital products is important; experience serving small and midsize businesses, marketplaces, subscriptions, local commerce, audience products, or programmatic advertising is particularly valuable.
AI product experience: Ability to identify and lead practical applications of AI across customer-facing products and organizational workflows.
Strategic prioritization: Exceptional ability to focus resources on the highest-impact opportunities, make difficult trade-offs, and adjust priorities based on evidence.
Hands-on leadership style: Comfortable engaging directly with customers, data, prototypes, product details, and technical teams rather than delegating core product thinking.
People leadership: Proven ability to develop talent, build strong teams, create followership, and lead with curiosity, candor, self-awareness, and low ego.
Communication and collaboration: Strong ability to align product, engineering, revenue, and other stakeholders around shared objectives and clear decisions.
Technical environment: Familiarity with modern digital technology environments is expected. Relevant exposure includes JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Drupal/PHP, AWS, GCP/BigQuery, Stripe, authentication platforms, search technologies, GitHub/Jira, and modern AI tools.
Remote leadership: Ability to operate effectively in a remote-first organization spanning multiple countries and time zones.
Base salary of $225,000-$275,000 USD annually, with actual compensation based on skills, experience, and other job-related factors.
Performance-based discretionary bonus eligibility.
Equity participation.
Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Ancillary benefits.
401(k) plan.
Unlimited discretionary time off (DTO).
10 paid holidays per year.
Paid parental leave.
Remote-first working environment with distributed teams across countries and time zones.
Opportunity to shape AI innovation and product strategy across a large-scale digital platform.