Product Manager (Marketplace)

Traba•San Francisco, CA

8d•$150,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

Traba is building an AI operating layer for the light industrial supply chain. Its staffing platform connects enterprise customers, including distribution centers and manufacturing facilities, with workers, and the company is expanding into broader operational workflows. Traba is backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst. The Product Manager will own and evolve the staffing product at the center of Traba’s marketplace. The role spans both enterprise customers and workers, with product decisions affecting supply, demand, fulfillment, customer outcomes, and marketplace health. The Product Manager will collaborate with software engineers, product designers, data analysts, other product managers, operations teams, and field teams to design, build, and ship practical solutions for industrial facilities. This position reports directly to the VP of Product. The role is based onsite in New York City or San Francisco five days per week. Compensation is $150,000–$190,000, with potential exceptions based on qualifications, plus equity. Listed benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, commuter benefits, flexible PTO, and other programs.

Requirements

3–5 years of experience as a Product Manager.
Evidence of shipping products that materially improved business outcomes.
Strong experience with two-sided marketplaces and real supply-and-demand dynamics.
Experience building enterprise products for multi-stakeholder customers and complex operational environments.
Experience building internal operational tools or systems that support business execution.
Strong technical fluency and ability to work closely with engineering teams.
Experience working in startup environments where speed and ownership matter.
Desire to work at a startup and take on a broad scope of work.
Strong work ethic and desire to build a category-defining company.
Customer-focused approach, including spending time with product users on both sides of the marketplace.
Ability to work across product, design, engineering, data, operations, sales, customer teams, and leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience using AI to change work practices, including prototyping, coding in a production repository, or building internal agents.
Experience building products involving marketplace liquidity, matching systems, incentives, fulfillment, trust, and marketplace health.
Experience with operational products or internal tools that improve how teams execute.
Experience in enterprise B2B environments with long sales cycles, operational rollouts, regional operators, warehouse leadership, and procurement processes.
Ability to work from first principles, navigate ambiguity, and deliver outcomes with lean teams.

Responsibilities

Architect and steward product strategy across critical staffing and marketplace workflows.
Solve marketplace problems by balancing customer needs, operational realities, and business outcomes.
Write detailed product requirements and partner with engineering teams to execute solutions.
Build systems that improve marketplace liquidity, fulfillment, matching quality, and operational efficiency.
Use data to identify patterns and answer marketplace and customer questions.
Translate operational complexity into scalable product systems.
Scale operations by designing internal tools and technical solutions.
Launch and iterate products across customers, regions, and operational environments.
Visualize and communicate complex systems, workflows, operational models, and product strategy.
Share work across departments and levels, and synthesize feedback from diverse stakeholders.
Work with customers and workers on-site to understand their needs.
Prototype, contribute code to the production repository, and build internal AI agents for research and analysis.