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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Hybrid
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Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
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.
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. Operating in a rapidly evolving environment, you will partner closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and data scientists to deliver a best-in-class developer experience, pioneer AI-powered location features, and build robust merchant and business ecosystems.
Shape the Vision: Develop and communicate a clear product vision for our external-facing services in alignment with overall company goals. You will operate in "founder mode" by thinking highly entrepreneurially not just to ship features, but to actively build and scale the business.
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.
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.
Demonstrate Organizational Leadership: You understand the 10X difference between good and great product organizations. As our customer needs, technologies, and product strategy evolve, you will evolve our product organization with it while maintaining rigorous product management fundamentals.
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.
B2B2C & Consumer Ecosystem Expertise: Strong preference for leaders who have built for large consumer or B2B2C ecosystems with a track record of successfully onboarding merchants and businesses onto platforms.
Zero-to-One Track Record: You operate with extreme agency as a business builder; a proven founder, a new service owner, or have bootstrapped a business from scratch.
Go-To-Market (GTM) Execution: Proven track record of developing and driving comprehensive GTM strategies. You know how to successfully align product, marketing, and sales teams to launch new capabilities, drive rapid adoption, and scale revenue across both developer platforms and consumer ecosystems.
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.
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.
Customer Focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
Data-driven Decisions: You believe in the value of data-informed decision-making and strive to measure things that are not straightforward but essential. You also have the right instincts to make speedy decisions in the absence of perfect & comprehensive data.
Strong written and vocal communication skills: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience.
Operational Excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in your organization.
Hire & Elevate: Great leaders understand the importance of hiring the best talent and creating a culture where team members can learn & grow with the organization. You demonstrate investment in coaching and stretching peers across all levels
Prior experience in Search, Maps, or Navigation. 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.
In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. 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.
We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
Hybrid/Remote Options: Enjoy flexibility to work comfortably from home or periodically from an office where applicable.
Comprehensive Healthcare: Private medical coverage for you and your dependents.
Family-First Support: Generous maternity and paternity leave policies to support your growing family.
Fertility & Family Building: Inclusive fertility support. Grow your family on your terms.
Lifestyle Spending Account: Contributions to support your health, wellness, and personal growth.
Balance & Brainpower: Mental health support for you and your dependents.
Rest & Recharge: Flexible paid time away, company holidays, and generous absence policies.
Time Off to Give Back: Dedicated paid volunteering time in addition to your standard PTO.
Invest & Grow: Retirement plans with competitive matching.
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. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
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