Vice President, AI Product & Engineering

Patch is hiring a Vice President, AI Product & Engineering to lead commercial success for its platform products and apply its AI capabilities to help sales generate more revenue. The role also focuses on improving journalists’ financial and operational opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Commercial success for platform products, leading with 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

Requirements:

• You have clear and proven attribution of commercial success and business outcomes in self-serve SMB products (i.e. products similiar 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
• You need not master the stack, but you must be technically fluent and able to earn the trust of engineers