About Patch Patch is the hyperlocal news and information platform for 15000 U.S. communities reaching 25 million monthly users and 3 million active email subscribers. We use AI throughout our business from gathering and delivering the news to helping local partners connect with customers. Our 85-person newsroom helps people understand what is happening where they live our events classifieds business listings and advertising products help local organizations reach them. Patch spans a high-traffic website iOS and Android apps email a custom CMS user-generated content payments data and advertising systems. We’ve used AI to expand our platform nationwide to offer new digital products for our customers and to improve workflow and capabilities for local journalists. The Role We are looking for a hands-on Vice President Product to lead AI innovation own Patch’s product roadmap and lead our Product and Engineering organizations. The portfolio includes Patch’s core platform web and mobile apps owned-and-operated digital products and advertising products developed in close partnership with Revenue. You will also spearhead Patch’s efforts to expand the impact of AI across every facet of the organization—from how our teams work to the products services and experiences we create for customers and users. This role is for a product builder who is obsessed with business outcomes—not output—and who can connect customer jobs company priorities and technical reality. You will set direction make hard trade-offs stay close to the work and help strong teams ship products that matter to local users businesses and event marketers. 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. Compensation The annual base salary range for this position is $225000 - $275000 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. Benefits Competitive medical dental and vision coverage Ancillary benefits 401(k) Unlimited discretionary time off (DTO) 10 paid holidays a year Paid parental leave Patch Media is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion national origin citizenship age disability sex marital status veteran status sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our commitment to equality extends to all aspects of employment including recruitment hiring placement promotion training compensation benefits and general treatment.