Mapbox
VP of Product
Mapbox US · Vp
Sponsorship not specified$331k-$410kDetected 13 days ago
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About the role
- As our customer needs, technologies, and product strategy evolve, you will evolve our product organization with it while maintaining rigorous product management fundamentals.
- WHAT WE BELIEVE ARE IMPORTANT TRAITS FOR THIS ROLE - Product Leadership: 10+ years of leadership experience.
- Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Responsibilities
- As the VP of Product reporting directly to the CEO, you will oversee product teams across all Mapbox services to drive our strategic direction, product-market fit, and commercial adoption.
- This role entails both managing a complex, scaled product portfolio, and simultaneously driving zero-to-one initiatives to build and launch new lines of business.
- Grow the Merchant Ecosystem: Drive product strategies specifically designed for B2B2C environments, focusing on how we successfully onboard merchants, businesses, and rich external data sets onto our platform.
- Collaborate: Partner with engineering leads to balance feature development with operational excellence and platform scalability.
- Work closely with marketing, sales, and customer success teams to optimize go-to-market strategies, product messaging, and client support.
- Product Leadership: 10+ years of leadership experience. Deep, proven background in building, scaling, and driving strategic initiatives in diverse organizational settings.
- AI Transformation: Strong technical foundation in artificial intelligence, including experience developing, integrating, or scaling AI-powered features, and models such as MCP, agents, and toolkits.
- Operational Excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in your organization.
- You will operate in "founder mode" by thinking highly entrepreneurially not just to ship features, but to actively build and scale the business.
Requirements
- Prior experience in Search, Maps, or Navigation.
- Strong written and vocal communication skills: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience.
Skills
- You demonstrate investment in coaching and stretching peers across all levels
- Hybrid/Remote Options: Enjoy flexibility to work comfortably from home or periodically from an office where applicable.
Compensation
- Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $331,000 - $410,000 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor.
Benefits
- Shape the Vision: Develop and communicate a clear product vision for our external-facing services in alignment with overall company goals.
- Ownership & Execution: Own the technical product vision, lead the strategy, and work alongside engineering counterparts to guide the team in executing the plan.
- You treat failures as critical learning opportunities, actively seeking feedback and continuously adapting product strategy to evolving customer needs and market realities.
- We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
- We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
Company info
- Our core services-Maps, Search, and Navigation-serve as the foundational location infrastructure for the next generation of software, powering real-time spatial intelligence for millions of developers and leading AI platforms worldwide.
- We are revolutionizing how users interact with the physical world by equipping large language models, conversational agents, and consumer apps with advanced geographical reasoning.
- Today, our developer ecosystem builds everything from AI-powered location experiences and top-ranking mobile apps to advanced autonomous driving platforms across transportation, retail, and logistics.
- While we continue to empower developers to build highly customized location awareness into their applications, Mapbox is continuously pioneering Location AI.
- We have launched innovations like MapGPT, our Location AI platform, and native Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations that bring context-aware spatial discovery and routing directly to AI agents.
- From partnering with AI leaders like OpenAI and Perplexity, to working with global automotive giants-including BMW, Toyota, and GM-Mapbox is embedding beautiful 3D maps, intuitive natural language search, and optimal navigation into the fabric of the AI era.
- Build for the Customer: Engage directly and effectively with customers, external industry leaders, developers, and key partners to understand their needs, gather feedback, and evangelize the product.
- Technical Expertise: Our teams and customers are technical and value technical depth and critical thinking. Prior experience in developer focused products, delivering APIs, SDKs, AI integrations, and/or iOS/Android Apps is critical.
- While domain expertise is extremely valuable in this role and with our customers, at our core, we are individuals who are technical, customer-focused, genuinely curious, adaptive, and eager to transform customer experiences from what they are today.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization.
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