VP, Product & Engineering

Agency:

Flywheel

Job Function:

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction:

Data Engineering

Job Description:

VP Product and Engineering Perpetua

About Flywheel
Flywheels suite of digital commerce solutionsaccelerategrowth across all major digital marketplaces for the worlds leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performancemeasurementand improve sales share and profit. With teams across the AmericasEuropeandAPACwe offer a career with real impact endless growthopportunitiesand the support you need to be the best you can be.

The Opportunity
Perpetua is the Challenger brand retail media platform within the Flywheel Commerce Network andwe are looking for a VP of Product and Engineering to own it end to end. Reporting to the General Manager of Perpetua you will be the definitive product and engineering leader for the businessaccountable for the roadmap the architecture the team and the outcomes. This is not a role that inherits a strategy and executes it. You will set the technical and product direction for a focused high-leverage teamand have the autonomy to move quickly the backing of a global commerce network behind you and a direct line to the GM to clear the path.
Retail media is the fastest-growing corner of digital advertising and the ground is shifting fast. Amazon and the other large retailers are now shipping their own AI agents that plan build andoptimizecampaigns natively inside their consoles. That raises the bar for what an independent platformhas todo to stay essentialand it is exactly where Perpetua wins. Perpetua is built for the challenger brandand the agencies who serve them: the operatorswho cannot out-spend the category leader andhavetoout-execute instead. Perpetua works across Amazon Walmart Instacartand more within the retail media landscape.

What Youll Do:
Own the complete product and engineering strategy for Perpetua including roadmap prioritization resource allocation and business outcomes aligned to companyKPIs.

Build and scale high-performing product and engineering teams including hiring mentoring and developing leaders who drive innovation and operational excellence.

Partner with executive leadership to define business strategy manage P&L and drive GTM initiatives.

Own the product end to endfrom discovery through deliveryacross Amazon Walmart Instacart and emerging retail media networks.

Own system design and architecture for the platform;the GCP-hosted services and data pipelines that ingest and act on retail media data at scale and the newer layer of AI inference evaluation and agent orchestration that increasingly sits on top of it.

Own Perpetuas AI strategy across its different formsfrom the machine-learning systems that already optimize and execute campaign decisions autonomously to the generative and agentic layer that plans reasons and explains in natural languagewith a clear point of view on which approach is right for which problem.

Shape Perpetuas platform strategy around the Model Context Protocol (MCP): both consuming external MCP servers (including retailers own) and exposing Perpetuas capabilities as an MCP server so that AI agentsours and our customerscan plan and transact against the platform directly.

Championan AI-native engineering culture equipping the team with modern AI development toolingClaude Code among themandestablishingthe practices that let a focused team ship at a pace well above its headcount.

Set the bar for engineering qualityoncode review security testing and deploymentand keep it high as the team adopts AI-assisted development so that velocity and rigor rise together.

Identifyand execute key technology initiatives architectural improvements and infrastructure investments that reduce technical debt and improve platform scalability.

Drive product-market fit expansion and feature development through deep customer insights competitive analysis and market research.

Foster a culture of innovation ownership and collaboration across product engineering design and go-to-market teams.

Manage vendor relationships third-party integrations and platform partnerships critical to Perpetuas growth.

Drive metrics-driven decision making by establishing KPIsmonitoringperformance anditerating onproduct and operational strategies.


Who You Are:
A track recordof leading both product and engineering including 5 years in senior leadership (VP Director or equivalent) owning a product line or business unit not just a function.

Deep technical credibility in full-stack development;comfortable making architecture calls and earning the trust of senior engineers. Direct experience with our stack (Python/Django React/TypeScript) is an asset; the ability to go deep in any modern stack matters more.

Demonstrated ability to define and execute product strategy that drives revenue growth market expansion and competitive differentiation.

Expert-level knowledge of distributed systems design cloud architecture (GCP/AWS) microservices and data infrastructure at scale.

Genuine fluency in building with AI;LLM-based product features agentic workflows and protocols like MCP. Youshould be opinionated about where AI creates real leverage and where it does not.

Background in retail media digital advertising ecommerce or a comparable data-and-API-intensive B2B SaaS domain.

Proven ability to recruit develop andretaintop engineering and product talent in competitive markets.

Experience with cross-functional leadership spanningsales customer success marketingfinanceand operations.

Track recordof successful product launches go-to-market strategies and market expansion in competitive segments.

Exceptional communication skills (both strategic and tactical) withabilityto influence stakeholders at all levels.

Strong emphasis on customer obsession and user-centric design withdemonstratedability to translate customer insights into product strategy.

Solid understanding of security compliance and data privacy requirements in regulated environments.

Experience with agile methodologies continuous delivery and rapid iteration cycles.




$180000 CAD - $200000 CAD

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