Vice President of Product, Patch
$225-275k
This position is also eligible for a performance-based discretionary bonus and equity
Climate action platform
Be an early applicant
Climate action platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$225-275k
This position is also eligible for a performance-based discretionary bonus and equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
Patch's mission is to rebalance the planet.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- You need not master the stack, but you must be technically fluent and able to earn the trust of engineers
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Offsetting climate emissions is a huge priority for businesses, with motives including conducting sustainable business, meeting government regulations, improving brand image, and saving finances. However, the discovery and logistic process of getting involved with climate action projects can be difficult to navigate.
Patch provides a climate action platform that aims to help businesses meet their carbon footprint goals through a carbon removal project marketplace. In addition to being able to financially contribute to such services, companies can also use Patch's API to embed carbon footprint estimation and removal tools in their product, facilitating climate action through every transaction.
There are many climate action projects that businesses can contribute to financially, but it can be difficult to discover them, and Patch has been smart to make this process simpler. The company is also expanding outside of carbon removal projects, offering projects on its marketplace concerning regenerative agriculture, solar farms, enhanced weathering, and kelp farming. Funds raised by Patch are cited to support hiring and growth, as well as helping to accelerate the development of its technology.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2022
$55m
SERIES B
Sep 2021
$20.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $81.5m
Company benefits
- Work with the most talented team in climate tech
- Meaningful equity
- Monthly wellness stipend for mental and physical health
- Remote-first, asynchronous work culture
- Time-off as needed vacation policy
- Generous parental leave policy
Company HQ
Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brennan Spellacy
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as a Web Developer for McGill University. Senior Product Manager and Software Engineer for Sonder Inc. from 2016 to 2020.
Aaron Grunfeld
(Co-Founder)Experience as Team Leade of Revenue, Operations, and Growth for Sonder Inc. from 2014 to 2020.
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