VP of Product - Commerce Infrastructure

Demand.io; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid maternity leave

Paid paternity leave

Daily catered lunches

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a VP of Product to redefine the product strategy for SimplyCodes and pave the way for Product.ai. You will be responsible for leading R&D efforts to innovate the mobile app into a Digital Wallet and managing a high-performing product team. The ideal candidate has strategic leadership experience, a strong tech background, and a proven record in pivoting legacy products while driving user value. This role offers competitive compensation and substantial benefits, including profit sharing.

Qualifications

• Experience as a strategic partner to a CEO or founder in a tech environment.
• Proven ability to pivot legacy products while maintaining core value.
• Deep understanding of data architecture and its application.

Responsibilities

• Drive product and ecosystem strategy for SimplyCodes.
• Lead R&D to transform the mobile app into a Digital Wallet Pass Manager.
• Architect and manage the Consumer Intelligence Agent within Product.ai.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Technical expertise

Leadership

Innovative thinking

Job description

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Base pay range

$300,000.00/yr - $500,000.00/yr

Additional compensation types

Stock options

Executive Summary

The internet is drowning in noise. Generative AI has made content free, but truth expensive. The next decade belongs to the companies that build the Infrastructure of Truth.

We are Demand.io. We are not a pre-revenue startup selling a vision. We are a profitable, founder-led team of ~30 builders processing $1B+ in transaction volume annually.

We are pivoting our entire ecosystem to build Product.ai—an intelligence engine that replaces "probabilistic guessing" (chatbots) with verifiable adjudication. We need a VP of Product to serve as a strategic partner to the CEO. Your mandate is to take our existing high-volume utility (SimplyCodes) and reinvent it as the data infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI commerce.

The Bottom Line: Drive the success of SimplyCodes. Build products that dominate in today’s reality while innovating the foundation of a future-winning vision. Reinforce the constant goal: creating undeniable value for the user.

Mandate

You are not starting with a blank whiteboard. You are starting with a massive, live ecosystem that needs a hard pivot. We are thinking 3 years ahead, but you must build for the now.

1. The "Agent-Native" Pivot (SimplyCodes Desktop)

2. The "Wallet" Infrastructure (SimplyCodes Mobile)

The Reality: Promo codes are dying; Digital Wallets are rising.

The Mission: You will lead the R&D to transform our mobile app into a Digital Wallet Pass Manager. You will build the system where verified offers live natively in the user's OS Wallet and trigger physically via geo‑fencing when they walk into a store. This is 0-to-1 innovation.

3. The Convergence (Product.ai)

The Future: SimplyCodes is the wedge; Product.ai is the endgame. Once the data infrastructure is set, you will architect the Consumer Intelligence Agent—the advisor that protects users from regret by "litigating" products rather than just listing them.

Architecture

• The Stack: You will work directly with ShopGraph (our proprietary graph of 1B+ e-commerce facts) and ARC (our adversarial verification engine). You need to understand data schema, not just UI flows.
• The Leverage: We do not solve problems with headcount. We solve them with Code. We use our internal AI tools to operate with extreme leverage. You won't hire 20 PMs; you will build the systems that allow 3 PMs to do the work of 20.
• The Leadership: You will mentor a high-performing product team. You will set the standard for "Founder Mode" execution across the org.

Who You Are

• A Strategic Partner: You can spar with a Founder on unit economics one hour and deep‑dive into graph topology the next.
• A "Real Tech" Operator: You value durability and verified truth over "AI Hype." You understand the difference between a demo and production infrastructure.
• A Pivot Architect: You have taken a successful legacy product and successfully pivoted it into a new era without killing the golden goose.

Contract

We are a Sovereign Entity. We answer to our customers, not VCs.

• Profit Sharing (PSB): A cash bonus pool that aligns your wealth with the company's durability.
• Benefits: 100% Premium Coverage for you and your family. Daily catered lunches. Unlimited PTO.

Gateway (How to Engage)

Standard recruiting is broken. It optimizes for "politeness" and "process," resulting in weeks of scheduling ping‑pong just to speak with a non‑technical screener. We optimized for Velocity.

In place of resume‑eating machines, we built The Gauntlet—a high‑bandwidth mechanism designed to respect your time by accelerating the "No" and the "Yes."

Application Compact

• You give us Conviction: A 12‑minute, unscripted video response. We don't want polished essays; we want to see how your mind deconstructs ambiguity in real‑time.
• We give you Access: Your submission bypasses the sourcing layer and is reviewed directly by a Hiring Lead or the Founder.

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Seniority Level

Executive

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Product Management, Strategy/Planning, and Engineering

Industries

Software Development and Consumer Services

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid maternity leave
• Paid paternity leave