Traba · 2 months ago
VP of Product
New York City, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveTraba is a technology company that is revolutionizing the staffing industry through a marketplace connecting businesses with reliable talent. The VP of Product will lead the development of AI-powered products, focusing on innovative solutions to enhance operational processes and drive significant growth.
CRMLocalMarketplaceStaffing Agency
Responsibilities
Analytical + product instinct: Balances data with product judgment; asks 'why' before 'how.'
People leader: Attracts, develops, and uplevels a high-performance team; installs product rigor and data-driven practices
AI Fluent, AI First: Building AI products and agent-powered systems is the core of Traba’s product. They are at the cutting edge of applied AI, and constantly think about how new AI capabilities can transform a product, and look to use AI to drive leverage and velocity in everything their team does
Creative, First Principles Thinker: Building at the edge of applied AI means forging a path that hasn’t been built before, not implementing a playbook that worked somewhere else. They need to think creatively, be able to break a problem down to first principles and reimagine what a process or product should be. The role will require this person to rethink from first principles how our product can best solve our customer’s core problems
Proven 0 to 1 Builder: Obsessed with innovating a product in the 0 to 1 phase to delight customers, and have proven success in launching and scaling new products or businesses. Should be a thought leader on how to drive 10X growth through product at the company
Operations Expertise: Much of our product development is focused on automating operational processes and workflows. They should have experience working closely with operations teams to implement automation, improve tooling, and ensure adoption and impact of internal products
User empathy & simple UX: Turns complex operational needs into elegant, usable solutions
Exceptional communicator: Aligns execs and ICs; represents Traba well with customers and partners
Bias Towards Action / Willing To Put In Work: We work long hours in the office and are serious about building something incredible. It’s important this person is willing to get their hands dirty and go all in to win the respect of the team and senior leaders who have been here since the beginning
Growth Mindset: A growth mindset, with resilience, tenacity, and the intelligence typical of Silicon Valley's best. This person is a 'steep slope' operator: high-energy and relentless about hitting growth targets
Qualification
Required
Analytical + product instinct: Balances data with product judgment; asks 'why' before 'how.'
People leader: Attracts, develops, and uplevels a high-performance team; installs product rigor and data-driven practices
AI Fluent, AI First: Building AI products and agent-powered systems is the core of Traba's product. They are at the cutting edge of applied AI, and constantly think about how new AI capabilities can transform a product, and look to use AI to drive leverage and velocity in everything their team does
Creative, First Principles Thinker: Building at the edge of applied AI means forging a path that hasn't been built before, not implementing a playbook that worked somewhere else. They need to think creatively, be able to break a problem down to first principles and reimagine what a process or product should be. The role will require this person to rethink from first principles how our product can best solve our customer's core problems
Proven 0 to 1 Builder: Obsessed with innovating a product in the 0 to 1 phase to delight customers, and have proven success in launching and scaling new products or businesses. Should be a thought leader on how to drive 10X growth through product at the company
Operations Expertise: Much of our product development is focused on automating operational processes and workflows. They should have experience working closely with operations teams to implement automation, improve tooling, and ensure adoption and impact of internal products
User empathy & simple UX: Turns complex operational needs into elegant, usable solutions
Exceptional communicator: Aligns execs and ICs; represents Traba well with customers and partners
Bias Towards Action / Willing To Put In Work: We work long hours in the office and are serious about building something incredible. It's important this person is willing to get their hands dirty and go all in to win the respect of the team and senior leaders who have been here since the beginning
Growth Mindset: A growth mindset, with resilience, tenacity, and the intelligence typical of Silicon Valley's best. This person is a 'steep slope' operator: high-energy and relentless about hitting growth targets
Preferred
Partner to GTM: Strong experience working closely with GTM teams to understand customer needs to build products that resonate and help deliver faster sales cycles is a plus
Marketplace / Two-Sided Platform Experience: Building for multiple user personas is a different muscle than a standard SaaS product; having experience balancing priorities of building products for different users and ensuring platform health and success is a plus
Supply Chain / Antiquated Industry Exposure: Ideally, this person has previous experience building software products in industrials or another unsexy, ‘hard to sell into' antiquated industry with a reluctance to adopt technology
Benefits
📈 Start-up equity
💰 Competitive Salary
🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
🍽️ Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
🚍 Commuter benefit
🏋🏽 Gympass Benefit
✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
Company
Traba
Traba is a technology company that increases the productivity and potential of the industrial supply chain.
Founded in 2021
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$45.6MKey Investors
Founders FundKhosla Ventures
2023-10-26Series A· $22M
2022-07-07Series A· $20M
2021-07-22Seed· $3.6M
Leadership Team
Mike Shebat
CEO & Co-Founder
Recent News
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