About Patch Patch is the hyperlocal news and information platform for 15000 U.S. communities reaching 25 million monthly users and roughly 3 million active email subscribers. 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 custom digital products 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 of Engineering to lead software engineering ad technology Data and Site Quality. You will be Patch’s senior technology executive report to the CEO participate in executive-team and Board discussions and own engineering delivery. You will work closely with the Head of Product and the leaders of Growth Revenue and Editorial—translating company priorities into sound technical plans without running the Product function. The opportunity is broad advance the platform modernize critical systems raise engineering velocity and reliability and help Patch use AI intelligently in both customer-facing products and internal workflows. This is a builder’s role not a layer of management between the business and the technology. What You Will Lead Engineering strategy and delivery. Set technical direction make capacity and risk visible and deliver against priorities agreed with the CEO and functional leaders. Architecture and operations. Guide modern and legacy systems across search content delivery publishing performance reliability security and platform migration lead when production incidents require senior judgment. AI-enabled development. Help engineers use AI to prototype and ship faster establish a practical company technology vision for AI and move the strongest ideas safely into production. The engineering organization. Hire coach and manage a distributed team while raising standards for code QA automated testing observability and release confidence. Data and technical stewardship. Lead data integrity access and platform cost oversee major technology vendors infrastructure and a multi-million-dollar operating portfolio. What You Bring Deep software-engineering experience including strong JavaScript/TypeScript React Next.js and Node.js expertise. A record of leading engineering teams that partner well with a strong separate Product function—and of personally prototyping shipping and operating high-traffic digital products. Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools rapid prototypes and agentic workflows with the judgment to productionize them safely. Strong SQL and data skills experience with AWS distributed or event-driven architectures and complex systems with meaningful legacy components. Demonstrated people leadership across hiring coaching performance and organizational decisions plus executive-level communication with CEOs Boards and cross-functional peers. A practical builder’s mindset curious direct low-ego and willing to inspect the code data or workflow before debating abstractions. Technology Environment JavaScript/TypeScript React Next.js Node.js Drupal/PHP AWS Heroku Fastly Pantheon GCP/BigQuery/GA4 Stripe Auth0/Okta Typesense/OpenSearch GitHub/Jira and AI development tools including Claude Bolt Replit and Google Stitch. You need not know every platform depth judgment and fast learning matter most. Working at Patch Patch is remote-first with employees and contractors across countries and time zones. The role requires flexibility across that distributed team and availability for significant production incidents. We are looking for someone who connects with Patch’s mission and wants to help a strong engineering team expand what the company can build next. 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.