Chief Product & Technology Officer · Weedmaps
Leading technology, product and design for the AI era.
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Weedmaps (WM Technology, Nasdaq: MAPS), where I lead product, engineering, design, AI and data and am putting AI agents to work across the business. My 15+ year career has been in regulated, stigmatized markets — such as healthcare and cannabis — where good technology changes what people can access.
Independent board seats & select advisory roles
I'm looking to join a board as an independent director, and I advise a small number of founders and leadership teams on AI strategy, product and engineering organizations, and technology risk. I help boards move beyond AI hype to practical execution and risk-aware deployment.
Start a conversation- Public-company technology leadershipChief Product and Technology Officer of a Nasdaq-listed company; engineering advisor to ICON plc after its acquisition of HumanFirst; helped lead engineering at GoodRx through its 2020 IPO.
- Regulated and high-trust industriesHealthcare (tele-mental health, fertility, prescriptions), fintech and cannabis — privacy, compliance and trust built into the product.
- Product, design, engineering, AI and data under one roofI run the full product and technology organization, so strategy, experience, data and delivery are accountable to one leader.
- AI in production, not in slidesAutonomous agents shipping code and an AI brain that answers business questions from governed data. I bring the build-vs-buy and vendor decisions, model risk (accuracy, bias, privacy) and ROI measurement a board should ask about.
- Digital marketplacesTwo-sided marketplace dynamics, search, ranking and recommendations, and balancing advertising revenue and monetization with user trust.
- Zero to onePart of the team that launched Trade Coffee, founding engineering leader at Kindbody, and an advisor to a number of early-stage companies going from zero to one.
Where I add the most value
AI, in production
How I'm rebuilding a public company's technology, product and operations around AI.
Agents that ship real work
An autonomous coding agent picks up tickets, opens pull requests, fixes its own failing builds and responds to code review — alongside engineers, across the codebase.
One trusted source of truth
An AI brain built on a governed semantic layer, so people and agents answer business questions from certified metric definitions — scored for accuracy every night.
Shared skills, safe by design
A common platform of skills and tools every team's agents can use, with least-privilege access, audit trails and defenses against prompt injection.
Selected full-time roles
Recent highlights. Full history on LinkedIn.
Weedmaps
Cerebral
GoodRx
KindbodyAdvisory & consulting
Companies I've advised, consulted for or invested in.
ICON plc
HumanFirst
Hey Jane
Opus
Two Front
Animo AIAbout
The common thread in my career is stigmatized industries. Healthcare hasn't been very tech-enabled in the places that need it most, and cannabis is the same. In both, the work is to build products people can trust with sensitive parts of their lives, inside real regulatory constraints.
Today I lead product, engineering, design, AI and data at Weedmaps, the largest online cannabis marketplace, where we're rebuilding how the company works around AI: agents that ship code, and an AI brain that gives people and agents one trusted source of truth. Before that I was CTO of Cerebral, led engineering at GoodRx through its IPO, and was on the founding team at Kindbody. Earlier in my career I spent time at Harvard, Paperless Post, Slice and Trade Coffee.
Let's talk
For board seats, advisory roles or speaking, email is the best way to reach me.
sarah.d.griffis@gmail.com