VP, Technology and Product

Vice President, Technology and Product | Confidential SearchRemote (Eastern or Central time zone)$228K to $250K base + 15% bonus potentialBuild the platform physicians rely on to stay current.Carterwill Search is partnering with an established digital healthcare platform that helps physicians and healthcare professionals stay current with medical research, news, and continuing education. Backed by a well-capitalized global parent company, the business is now evolving from a content publisher into a data-driven physician engagement platform, and it needs a leader who can own that transformation end to end.This is a combined engineering and product leadership role.You will set the roadmap, make the architecture calls, and lead a lean, cross-functional team across engineering, product, and data science. You will have executive sponsorship, a direct line to the C-suite, and board-level visibility.What You'll DoOwn the technology and product roadmap, tying engineering priorities to specific growth targets and timelinesArchitect first-party data infrastructure, including CDP, identity resolution, and unified user profilesShip real-time personalization and recommendation features driven by behavioral signalsBuild the experimentation backbone: A/B testing, feature flags, and hypothesis-driven developmentLead AI/ML initiatives for content intelligence, summarization, tagging, and engagement predictionEvolve a legacy publishing stack incrementally while innovating on the platform roadmapEvaluate, select, and integrate best-of-breed MarTech and AI vendors against roadmap and budgetPartner with commercial leadership to keep sales commitments aligned with platform realityEstablish clear decision-making norms that help engineering, product, and data move fast togetherWhat You Bring10 to 15 years in technology, with 3 to 5+ years leading teams with direct architecture and roadmap ownershipProven leadership across both engineering and product, with shipped work you personally droveHands-on experience building or deeply integrating CDPs, identity resolution, and first-party data strategyProduction personalization or recommendation systems you owned from MVP to scaleExperimentation platform design, not just participation in experimentsDaily, embedded use of AI in your own work: LLMs, coding assistants, and agents as part of how you prototype, code, and researchComfort in a small-team, fast-shipping environmentWorking knowledge of healthcare data compliance (HIPAA and related standards)Nice to HaveBackground in digital health media, healthcare engagement platforms, life sciences MarTech, or community/content platformsExperience with data clean rooms, privacy-first targeting, or programmatic advertisingFamiliarity with AWS, event-driven architecture, and generative AI in productionWhy This RoleGreenfield ownership of a real platform transformationTrue authority to make decisions, not just facilitate themMission-driven work that touches physician decision-making and patient care at scaleThe agility of a growth-stage company with the stability of a global parentDetailsRemote, US-based (Eastern or Central time zone)Quarterly in-person offsites in the NortheastMust be authorized to work in the US without sponsorshipCarterWill is an equal opportunity employer...