Senior Product Manager, Traba
$170-200k
Offers equity
5 days a week in office
Marketplace for matching industrial workers with open shifts
Open for applications
Marketplace for matching industrial workers with open shifts
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$170-200k
Offers equity
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a unicorn—a rare blend of technical expertise, operational savvy, and human-centered thinking
- You thrive in building and scaling complex systems, championing users, code, and business outcomes, and excel in navigating multi-sided marketplace dynamics
- Marketplace Mastery: You’re fluent in network effects, incentives, system architecture, and marketplace growth strategies
- Strategic Thinker: You balance the "why," "how," and "what" with exceptional judgment on product strategy, platform design, and economics
- Holistic Problem Solver: You think big, solve scrappily, and dive deep into technical and business challenges—bonus if you can code
- Collaborative by Nature: You work seamlessly across teams to align sales, marketing, product, engineering, design, and more
- Adaptable and Humble: You thrive in ambiguity, iterate quickly, and stay open to feedback and learning
- 5–10+ years in Product Management: Proven track record of shipping business-defining products
- Marketplace Expertise: Experience with liquidity, matching algorithms, pricing, and trust & safety mechanisms
- Technical Proficiency: Strong understanding of software development (bonus if you code) and familiarity with AI
- Strategic Leadership: Built and executed product strategies and roadmaps that deliver measurable results
- Startup Spirit: Ambitious, proactive, and ready to take on wide-ranging challenges
- Positive Presence: Optimistic, curious, and a collaborative team player
What the job involves
- We are looking for an entrepreneurial and experienced product manager to help us reimagine the antiquated staffing industry
- Our product isn’t an app; it’s the labor we deploy into warehouses and manufacturing facilities throughout the country (and eventually, the world)
- In addition to collaborating with software engineers, you’ll also work closely with our field teams to design practical on-the-floor solutions for our light industrial customers
- You will also partner closely with our founders and leadership team to bring our product vision to life
- Define the Vision: Shape and own our product strategy and marketplace vision, ensuring alignment with user and business needs
- Solve Holistically: Tackle complex challenges by balancing desirability, feasibility, and viability
- Drive Development: Write detailed product requirements and partner with engineering to execute technical solutions
- Prototype and Validate: Rapidly develop proofs-of-concept to test and iterate ideas
- Scale Systems: Design smart, scalable solutions that optimize marketplace operations
- Leverage Data: Use insights to uncover opportunities, guide decisions, and inform strategy
- Communicate Effectively: Visualize and simplify complex ideas to engage stakeholders across the company
- Spot Opportunities: Identify emerging trends and integrate them into the product roadmap
Our take
Traba aims to revolutionize the gig economy within the warehousing and events sector by addressing current shortcomings. While the gig economy has provided flexibility elsewhere, it has struggled in these industries, often leading to disengaged workers and exploitative practices.
Trada distinguishes itself by verifying worker credentials and setting a minimum wage to ensure fair compensation, which helps mitigate issues seen in other short-term staffing solutions. The platform offers benefits like instant pay-outs and automation features for invoicing and reporting, enhancing efficiency for both workers and employers.
With significant funding secured in 2022 and 2023, Treaba is in the midst of expanding it operations across the US, prioritizing states like Texas with robust light industry sectors. Future developments include enhancing the platform with new apps and tools to streamline communication and further improve user experience.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2023
$22m
SERIES B
Jul 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $45.6m
Company benefits
- Early stage start-up equity
- Competitive salary
- 100% paid health, dental & vision coverage
- Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
- One Medical Membership
- Flexible PTO
- Parental leave
- Commuter benefit
- HSA via Optum
- Mental health benefits: Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
- Wellhub (Gympass) Membership
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Leadership
Mike Shebat
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to Traba, Mike spent 5 years at Uber as a Founding Team Member of UberEats, then he worked as an International Launch & Expansion Lead before finally moving into the role of Global Product Lead.
Akshay Buddiga
(Co-Founder & CTO)Akshay previously spent 5 years at Fanatics, joining as a Software Engineer before holding various roles including Senior Engineering Manager.
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