Vice President, AI Product & Engineering
About You
- You have clear and proven attribution of commercial success and business outcomes in new B2C self-serve platform products (i.e. products similar to Patch's promoted events and featured business listings: self-serve, low price point, recurring).
- You are fluent in Clay Christensen's JTBD framework.
- You have 5+ years of leading leaders in technical and product roles in entrepreneurial environments.
- You have technical credibility: 10+ years of experience as an engineer and/or managing engineering teams, and the ability to reason directly about architecture, data, feasibility, and trade-offs.
- You are hands-on: You prototype, inspect the data, talk with customers and work through details with the team; you do not delegate the substance of product leadership.
- You lead with curiosity, candor, self-awareness, low ego, and a sense of humor.
What We Offer / Why Patch
Patch — the largest, and one of the few thriving local media businesses — has been on the cutting edge of AI since 2022. We have approximately 15,000 communities with AI newsletters that have a 94+ NPS. Our moderation for 160M active users (and many other parts of the business) are AI-native. Our work connecting people with their communities matters. We are Patchy: we have fun and take our mission seriously but not ourselves.
Product and Technology Environment
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.
What You Will Lead
- Commercial success for platform products, leading with force, courage, and velocity. If you are doing something common in media, it is not bold enough.
- Helping sales make more money, especially through applying our AI work with large brands (separate from platform products).
- Finding ways to make our journalists' careers more rewarding financially and operationally.
Pay
The annual base salary range for this position is $225,000 - $275,000 USD. The actual salary will be determined based on skills, experience and other job-related factors, consistent with applicable law. This position is also eligible for a performance-based discretionary bonus and equity.