VP Product, Engagement

The VP Product, Engagement leads product strategy for experiences that help customers discover relevant offerings, navigate the marketplace and return regularly. The role spans traffic distribution, discovery, ranking, recommendation and experimentation. It requires a strong product vision, quantitative judgement and an ability to align engineering, data science, design and commercial teams around engagement, conversion and long-term customer value.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product direction for discovery, navigation and traffic-allocation frameworks across key customer journeys.
• Partner with engineering and data science teams to improve recommendations, ranking, content relevance and platform navigation.
• Define measurement frameworks for customer engagement, conversion and the quality of discovery experiences.
• Establish experimentation practices that test product hypotheses and scale changes supported by reliable evidence.
• Lead product managers and cross-functional partners, communicating priorities, trade-offs and long-term product outcomes.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bring substantial product leadership experience in consumer digital products, marketplaces, search, recommendations or engagement systems.
• Demonstrate success aligning product strategy with measurable customer and commercial results.
• Understand analytics and experimentation and be able to work closely with technical and data-science teams.
• Show strong leadership, stakeholder-management and communication skills across complex workstreams.

Skills and Competencies

• Product strategy, customer journey design, ranking and discovery concepts, experimentation, metrics and executive leadership.
• Customer empathy, analytical judgement, prioritisation, collaboration and clear strategic communication.

Employment Details

The role requires a long-term view of customer value as well as the ability to make focused delivery decisions. The leader should promote learning through testing, ensure that metrics reflect genuine user benefit and keep teams aligned on outcomes. Exact organisational scope, team size and product ownership boundaries should be confirmed with the employer.

Priority decisions should be supported by measurable objectives, clear ownership and consistent follow-up. The role holder should communicate assumptions early, adapt when evidence changes and keep partners aligned on intended outcomes.