Higher PeoplePosted 4 weeks ago

Head of Product

Higher PeoplePosted 4 weeks ago

$200,000–$250,000 year

On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$200,000–$250,000 yearSenior Level

Full TimeSenior Level

Job Summary

Own the product loop by converting field-level customer pain into shipped solutions by noon the next day. Serve as the CEO's primary thought partner on platform strategy, technical architecture, and prioritization, specifically driving AI-native SDLC optimization through coding agents and automated workflows. Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, hiring and scaling the team to act as founders-in-training who ship customizations directly with customers while eliminating decision-making layers. Spend significant time onsite at construction sites uncovering critical user journeys and key value drivers to accelerate high-velocity delivery.

Required Qualifications

7–12+ years shipping software in high-growth, high-stakes environments
Track record of owning product strategy and technical decision-making without needing hand-holding
Must be obsessed with using agent-based workflows, Bird rapid prototyping, and coding agents to ship faster
Must be using AI to research, write specs, and prototype daily
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future
Must be able to work in person
Must be excited about working in person
Must not prefer highly structured environments with clearly defined responsibilities
Must not want multiple management layers between yourself and decision-making
Must not see product management primarily as roadmap administration rather than problem solving
Must not prefer consensus over decisive prioritization
Must not struggle to make difficult tradeoffs with incomplete information
Must not want to own meetings more than outcomes

Desired Qualifications

Experience with payments and agentic scheduling optimization
Experience with the construction materials logistics market
Experience with enterprise producers and contractors
Experience with family-owned hauling fleets
Experience with onsite work at construction sites
Experience with uncovering critical user journeys and key value drivers
Experience with building systems to ship software at high speeds
Experience with utilizing Claude Code in Terminal
Experience with shipping PRs
Experience with professionalizing cadence
Experience with building feedback loops
Experience with hiring, managing, and scaling a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team
Experience with ensuring tight, immediate, and high-velocity feedback loops from field pain to shipped feature
Experience with maintaining a culture of high agency
Experience with eliminating layers between ideas and production
Experience with leading the Forward Deployed Engineering function
Experience with acting as founders-in-training
Experience with customizations directly with customers
Experience with serving as the primary product partner for the CEO
Experience with taking full ownership of the product cycle and execution of critical roadmap areas
Experience with platform strategy, technical architecture, and prioritization
Experience with driving the AI-native SDLC
Experience with optimizing for speed through coding agents and automated workflows
Experience with treating the development process as a product
Experience with optimizing the development process
Experience with building the system that allows a small team to ship software at high speeds
Experience with converting field-level customer pain into shipped solutions
Experience with shipping solutions by noon the next day
Experience with being the CEO's primary thought partner
Experience with working directly with the CEO
Experience with helping define the future of one of the industry's most important technology platforms
Experience with enormous ownership
Experience with working alongside a small team of exceptional builders
Experience with caring deeply about speed, quality, and customer outcomes
Experience with receiving meaningful Series A equity
Experience with a business with strong product-market fit
Experience with rapidly growing enterprise customers
Experience with more than $1B in monthly platform volume
Experience with the aggregate, asphalt, and concrete behind every road, bridge, and building
Experience with the $660B construction materials logistics market
Experience with enterprise producers and contractors that supply the world's largest infrastructure projects
Experience with family-owned hauling fleets that have moved the material for generations
Experience with operators who actually build the roads, bridges, and buildings
Experience with most of the work happening on paper tickets, phone calls, and disconnected scale houses
Experience with building the software they run on
Experience with crossing $2Bn in monthly delivered load value
Experience with $XM ARR
Experience with growing fast
Experience with enterprise customers reconciling real money, real freight, and real P&L
Experience with Tread being the most important software they use
Experience with being a Series A company backed by Mucker Capital
Experience with being in growth mode
Experience with being fulfilled by ownership and a life-changing outcome
Experience with hands-on product leadership
Experience with being invigorated by how agents change the SDLC and product development
Experience with spending significant time with customers
Experience with being onsite at construction sites
Experience with uncovering critical user journeys and key value drivers
Experience with building the system that allows a small team to ship software at high speeds
Experience with inheriting a culture where everyone across the company is utilizing Claude Code in Terminal
Experience with majority of non-engineers shipping PRs
Experience with professionalizing the cadence without slowing it down
Experience with creating the leverage needed for the company to scale
Experience with having zero patience for corporate fluff
Experience with caring about what you shipped this week
Experience with the quality of the feedback loop you've built
Experience with owning the product loop
Experience with converting field-level customer pain into shipped solutions by noon the next day
Experience with being the CEO's primary thought partner on platform strategy, technical architecture, and prioritization
Experience with driving the AI-native SDLC
Experience with treating the development process as a product
Experience with optimizing for speed through coding agents and automated workflows
Experience with hiring, managing, and scaling the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team
Experience with ensuring the FDE feedback loop—field pain to shipped feature—is tight, immediate, and high-velocity
Experience with maintaining a culture of high agency where there is no committee between a good idea and production
Experience with being obsessed with using agent-based workflows, Bird rapid prototyping, and coding agents to ship faster
Experience with using AI to research, write specs, and prototype daily
Experience with not being the right fit if not using AI to research, write specs, and prototype daily
Experience with leading the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) function
Experience with ensuring the FDE feedback loop—field pain to shipped feature—is tight, immediate, and high-velocity
Experience with 7–12+ years shipping software in high-growth, high-stakes environments
Experience with a track record of owning product strategy and technical decision-making without needing hand-holding
Experience with being fulfilled by ownership and a life-changing outcome
Experience with building software for the operators who build America
Experience with construction materials logistics being one of the largest essential industries in the world
Experience with the software powering construction materials logistics remaining decades behind
Experience with receiving meaningful Series A equity in a business with strong product-market fit
Experience with rapidly growing enterprise customers
Experience with more than $1B in monthly platform volume
Experience with working directly with the CEO while helping define the future of one of the industry's most important technology platforms
Experience with enormous ownership
Experience with no layers between you and meaningful decisions
Experience with working alongside a small team of exceptional builders who care deeply about speed, quality, and customer outcomes
Experience with competitive compensation, meaningful equity, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), unlimited PTO, and a transportation stipend
Experience with an in-person position based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Experience with regular collaboration with teammates across product, engineering, and leadership
Experience with being a core part of how we work
Experience with not preferring highly structured environments with clearly defined responsibilities
Experience with not wanting multiple management layers between yourself and decision-making
Experience with not being excited about working in person
Experience with not seeing product management primarily as roadmap administration rather than problem solving
Experience with not being deeply integrating AI into how you work every day
Experience with not preferring consensus over decisive prioritization
Experience with not struggling to make difficult tradeoffs with incomplete information
Experience with not wanting to own meetings more than outcomes
Experience with the anticipated base salary range for this role being $200,000–$250,000 + equity
Experience with final compensation being determined based on factors including experience, skills, and overall qualifications
Experience with being unable to provide visa sponsorship or future sponsorship support
Experience with candidates being currently authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future
Experience with Tread being unable to provide visa sponsorship or future sponsorship support

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