Vice President, Product

What You Will Lead

AI initiatives and development. Lead AI products for end users, customers and internal workflows.
Product strategy and roadmap. Turn company goals and customer needs into a focused roadmap with clear outcomes, sequencing and trade-offs.
Jobs to Be Done product development. Build a rigorous practice around customer jobs, evidence, prototyping, validation and post-launch learning—without creating process for its own sake.
Patch’s digital portfolio. Advance the core platform, apps and owned-and-operated products while improving the shared capabilities that let Patch move faster.
Revenue product partnership. Work closely with Revenue to develop advertising and commercial products that solve real customer problems and produce measurable growth.
Product and Engineering leadership. Create strong operating alignment across the two functions, develop talent, raise the quality of decisions and delivery, and build genuine followership.

What You Bring

• 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, as is exposure to programmatic advertising, marketplaces, subscriptions, local commerce or audience products.
• 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. You prototype, inspect the data, talk with customers and work through details with the team; you do not delegate the substance of product leadership.
• A track record of developing talent, creating followership and leading with curiosity, candor, self-awareness and low ego.

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.

Working at Patch

Patch is remote-first, with employees and contractors across countries and time zones. The ideal candidate feels a real connection to our mission: keeping people informed about their communities and helping local businesses and event marketers get the word out to the audiences that matter most.