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Director of Product, Maps
role at Mapbox.
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.
What We Do The Maps team at Mapbox sets the standard for dynamic, interactive mapping and real‑time location data visualization on web and mobile. We manage the development of SDKs for web, Android, and iOS, 3D mapping experiences, and API services that help thousands of customers build world‑class location‑based experiences for 300 million daily users. For years, the Mapbox Maps team has pushed boundaries and led the location space with advancements like new performant tile formats, advanced methods of bringing real‑time custom data to your maps, elegant 3D map rendering, and now AI tools where beautiful basemaps, functional map interactivity, and location‑aware conversations converge. Our customers, including global leaders such as The Weather Company, AllTrails, DoorDash, BMW, TripAdvisor, Yahoo Japan and Tableau, rely on us to continuously improve their products and revolutionize how people engage with location experiences.
What You’ll Do As the Director of Product for Maps, you will drive the vision and strategy for the Maps product portfolio that enables developers to serve over 650 M global MAUs through high‑performance APIs and client libraries providing dynamic maps, customizable styles, and interactive interfaces. You will envision, coordinate, and align the roadmap across multiple products and teams to deliver a consistent map rendering, design, and customization experience for users ranging from novice to power users. You will dive deep into digital mapping nuances, simplify geospatial development, abstract unnecessary complexity, and invent end‑user experiences that delight customers. You will obsess over both quantitative and qualitative metrics that define success. You will lead a collaborative team, partner in thinking big, validate growth opportunities, and execute with conviction. Prior technical experience is not required, but the ability to stretch technically and understand complex systems is helpful.
What’s Important For This Role
10+ years of product leadership experience.
Conceptualized and delivered consumer‑oriented or consumer‑facing products.
Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to establish an ambitious yet realistic product roadmap and effectively communicate this vision to customers and the organization.
Experience in a high‑accountability environment, with the ability to build, operationalize, and scale technically distributed organizations (engineering, product, design, data scientists, etc.).
Ability to think strategically in a high‑growth and fast‑paced business, building conviction through data, analysis, reasoning, and experimentation.
Demonstrated ability to drive go‑to‑market strategies that have resulted in successful product adoption and revenue generation.
Experience with profit and loss responsibility for a business unit.
Nice To Have
Experience with the development of generative AI applications.
5+ years as a PM, having led a product through a full lifecycle of discovery, development, launch, and adoption. Experience with deprecating or failing a product is a plus, but potential is most important.
Experience working with design tools and/or frontend applications, cross‑functional collaboration to deliver frontend products.
What We Value
We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work and commit to supportive health care, parental leave, life‑flexibility, and innovative support.
We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with tools needed for success.
We strongly believe in growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $262,225 to $344,775 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 based on qualifications, market demands, and location.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you agree to the Mapbox Privacy Policy. Mapbox participates in E‑Verify to confirm employee work authorization. Please refer to the Notice of E‑Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information. We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process and do not discriminate against any protected class.
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Product Management and Marketing
Software Development
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Director of Product, Maps
role at Mapbox.
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.
What We Do The Maps team at Mapbox sets the standard for dynamic, interactive mapping and real‑time location data visualization on web and mobile. We manage the development of SDKs for web, Android, and iOS, 3D mapping experiences, and API services that help thousands of customers build world‑class location‑based experiences for 300 million daily users. For years, the Mapbox Maps team has pushed boundaries and led the location space with advancements like new performant tile formats, advanced methods of bringing real‑time custom data to your maps, elegant 3D map rendering, and now AI tools where beautiful basemaps, functional map interactivity, and location‑aware conversations converge. Our customers, including global leaders such as The Weather Company, AllTrails, DoorDash, BMW, TripAdvisor, Yahoo Japan and Tableau, rely on us to continuously improve their products and revolutionize how people engage with location experiences.
What You’ll Do As the Director of Product for Maps, you will drive the vision and strategy for the Maps product portfolio that enables developers to serve over 650 M global MAUs through high‑performance APIs and client libraries providing dynamic maps, customizable styles, and interactive interfaces. You will envision, coordinate, and align the roadmap across multiple products and teams to deliver a consistent map rendering, design, and customization experience for users ranging from novice to power users. You will dive deep into digital mapping nuances, simplify geospatial development, abstract unnecessary complexity, and invent end‑user experiences that delight customers. You will obsess over both quantitative and qualitative metrics that define success. You will lead a collaborative team, partner in thinking big, validate growth opportunities, and execute with conviction. Prior technical experience is not required, but the ability to stretch technically and understand complex systems is helpful.
What’s Important For This Role
10+ years of product leadership experience.
Conceptualized and delivered consumer‑oriented or consumer‑facing products.
Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to establish an ambitious yet realistic product roadmap and effectively communicate this vision to customers and the organization.
Experience in a high‑accountability environment, with the ability to build, operationalize, and scale technically distributed organizations (engineering, product, design, data scientists, etc.).
Ability to think strategically in a high‑growth and fast‑paced business, building conviction through data, analysis, reasoning, and experimentation.
Demonstrated ability to drive go‑to‑market strategies that have resulted in successful product adoption and revenue generation.
Experience with profit and loss responsibility for a business unit.
Nice To Have
Experience with the development of generative AI applications.
5+ years as a PM, having led a product through a full lifecycle of discovery, development, launch, and adoption. Experience with deprecating or failing a product is a plus, but potential is most important.
Experience working with design tools and/or frontend applications, cross‑functional collaboration to deliver frontend products.
What We Value
We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work and commit to supportive health care, parental leave, life‑flexibility, and innovative support.
We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with tools needed for success.
We strongly believe in growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $262,225 to $344,775 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 based on qualifications, market demands, and location.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you agree to the Mapbox Privacy Policy. Mapbox participates in E‑Verify to confirm employee work authorization. Please refer to the Notice of E‑Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information. We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process and do not discriminate against any protected class.
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Product Management and Marketing
Software Development
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