VP of Product
Traba’s mission is to empower businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. Traba is a technology company that is revolutionizing the broken staffing industry through a marketplace that connects light industrial businesses with reliable talent while providing workers with flexible and meaningful opportunities. By connecting both, new levels of productivity, earning potential, and avenues for growth are unlocked. We’re proud to be backed by the world’s best investors, such as Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.
Need to Have
10+ years of experience
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.
Nice to Have
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
Salary Range Details:
The compensation range for this position is set between $250,000 and $300,000, reflecting our market analysis and other relevant considerations. However, exceptions may be made for candidates with qualifications that significantly differ from those outlined in the job description. We also offer a highly competitive equity package designed to ensure you share meaningfully in the long-term success and upside of the business.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Traba is dedicated to promoting Equal Opportunity employment practices. We evaluate all applicants without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristics that are legally protected by local, state, or federal regulations. We encourage applicants from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.
Our Values
Dream Big - We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.
Olympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.
Growth Mindset - We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.
Customer Obsession - We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve these often overlooked communities’ problems.
What is light industrial labor?
Light industrial flexible staffing is a $50B labor market that encompasses entry-level jobs in warehouses & distribution centers. These workers pack boxes, load trucks, and manage warehouse operations to keep supply chains running at peak efficiency.