VP Product

The company

Vizzia is the leading Video-Surveillance-as-a-Service (VSaaS) platform in Europe, equipping cities with intelligent cameras to address two specific problems: illegal waste dumping and public safety .

We replaced an industry that had not moved in twenty years. The legacy approach — on-prem servers, multi-month installations, €30k per camera — could not scale. Our quick-deploy 4G/5G cameras install in five minutes on a lamp post, stream continuously, run frugal edge AI, and feed two verticalized SaaS platforms used by local police, waste services, and city operations teams.

We were founded in 2022. Today: 160 cities equipped in France and expanding in Europe, €8.8M TCV signed in 2025, 130% NRR,
- VP Engineering (arriving shortly) — software, cloud, AI engineering, device lifecycle management
- Head of Hardware — leading hardware design and engineering
- VP Product (you) — Product and Design across the whole stack: Devices, Waste SaaS, Safety SaaS, AI products

The three Tech & Product leaders operate as peers. The product strategy you write is what aligns them.

The CTPO partnership. You report to the CTPO co-founder. Day to day, it works as a close collaboration. He owns the long-term vision, the market and technology depth he has built over years. You own the strategy execution, the operating model, the teams, the culture. He gives the direction, you give the structure.

The executive committee. While you do not sit in the ExCo (Comex), you have direct, standing access to every member (CEO, CSO, CMO, COO, CFO). You lead the Quarterly Product Strategy Review presented to the committee. The committee expects you to operate as a peer, not as a function head who needs to be filtered.

What we will look for in you

You have been a Head of Product or VP of Product before, in a company that went through a similar stage of growth.

On the Hardware dimension. Experience shipping an IoT or Hardware-enabled product would be ideal — it would make your first six months substantially easier (arbitrating roadmap trade-offs where a SaaS feature depends on a hardware release that ships every nine to twelve months, holding a coherent product strategy across a slower Hardware cycle and a fast SaaS cycle, speaking honestly with hardware, mechatronics, firmware, and AI engineers). What is non-negotiable is a deep, demonstrable appetite for Hardware. If “BOM”, “firmware OTA”, and "device life-cycle management" make you want to ask more questions rather than change the topic, you have the right instinct. If you have only worked on pure SaaS and you intend to keep it that way, this is not the right company for you.

You did not inherit a working product organization, you built one.

You can describe, in detail, a product strategy you have written. Not because you read about strategy. Because you wrote one and the company used it.

You have killed features and product bets on evidence from discovery. You can name them.

You have coached PMs from junior to senior, and from senior to manager. They are still in the field, still doing the work, and they will take your reference call.

You can hold a room of executives, in a language they understand. You disagree before decisions, commit after them, and you do not undermine the decision afterwards.

What we offer

A product scope you will not find elsewhere in France. Hardware, embedded AI, cloud platform, two vertical SaaS, owned end-to-end by a single product organization. The depth of the system is the prize.

- A company at the stage where building the product function from the ground up still matters and where the work is still small enough that one person can shape it.
- A real product solving real public-space problems in real cities, not another B2B SaaS dashboard.
- Founders (CEO and CTPO) who understand the importance of this hire.
- A compensation package that reflects the seniority of the role, with meaningful equity.
- A team of PMs, Designers, and engineers who want a real product leader, and who will know within a week if you are one.

Paris-based (Grands Boulevards). Three days a week onsite minimum.

If you've read this far, you're probably very interested in the role and/or Vizzia. We'd like to hear from you even if you feel you don't check every box.