Staff Product Manager (Marketplace)

Traba•San Francisco, CA

5d•$210,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

Traba is hiring an entrepreneurial and experienced Product Manager to own and evolve the staffing product at the center of its marketplace. The product connects enterprise customers operating distribution centers and manufacturing facilities with workers, and product decisions affect supply, demand, fulfillment, customer outcomes, and marketplace health. The role works with software engineers, product designers, data analysts, and other product managers, as well as operations and field teams, to design, build, and ship practical solutions in industrial facilities. It reports directly to the VP of Product. The role is based onsite in New York City or San Francisco five days per week. The listed salary range is $210,000–$250,000, and the company also offers equity. Traba describes itself as building an AI operating layer for the industrial supply chain, and says it is backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

Requirements

7–10 years of experience as a Product Manager.
Evidence of shipping products that materially improved business outcomes.
Strong experience building products in two-sided marketplaces with 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 supported business execution.
Strong technical fluency and ability to work closely with engineering teams.
Experience in startup environments where speed and ownership matter.
Desire to work at a startup and cover a wide range of responsibilities.
Strong work ethic and desire to build a category-defining company.
Customer-focused approach, with a willingness to engage directly with customers and workers.
Ability to prototype with AI, contribute code to production repositories, and build internal agents for research and analysis.
Understanding of marketplace liquidity, matching systems, incentives, fulfillment, trust, and marketplace-health tradeoffs.
Ability to navigate enterprise environments with regional operators, warehouse leadership, procurement processes, and layered customer organizations.
Ability to reason from first principles, understand systems and constraints, and build operational products and internal tools.
Ability to move quickly through ambiguity, solve problems inventively, and collaborate across product, design, engineering, data, operations, sales, customer teams, and leadership.

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 uncover patterns and answer marketplace and customer questions.
Translate operational complexity into scalable product systems.
Scale operations by designing internal tooling 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, incorporating feedback from diverse stakeholders.
Work closely with customers and workers, including spending time onsite with product users on both sides of the marketplace.