Head of Product

Title: Head of Product Reports to: CTO Location: NY How did Tracera come about? Tracera is an AI-first Sustainability Data Infrastructure Platform designed to automate the Sustainability / ESG data gathering process and provide real-time insights leading to ROI value creation. This software makes ESG reporting and decision making seamless by optimizing extraction, validation, and transformation of relevant data. It is built from the ground up with auditability in mind. Tracera aligns operations with global climate goals, promotes social responsibility, and enhances corporate governance practices. Their 5 values are: Truth, Trust, Transparency, Totality and Time. Tracera was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in New York. Tracera receives funding and support from Bain & Company as well as other highly respected VCs. Key Responsibilities: Set a multiyear product vision and translate it into clear strategies, multi-quarter roadmaps, and measurable outcomes. Hold yourself and the team accountable for top-line business KPIs. Drive end-to-end execution across multiple streams of work. Create clarity from ambiguity, sequence milestones, manage risks, and remove blockers to deliver reliably. Raise the bar for product craft and reliability, with an AI-first approach. Establish quality standards, review work rigorously, and ensure we ship intuitive, durable solutions that scale. Lead customer and prospect discovery. Pair qualitative insights with quantitative analysis to identify the highest leverage problems and validate solutions. Lead a small team of Product Managers. Coach product managers for outcomes, provide clear expectations, and develop talent through feedback, example-setting, and opportunity. Influence broadly without relying on authority. Align executives and cross-functional leaders through clear narratives, crisp decision docs, and transparent tradeoffs. Translate customer and customer success needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and technical specs (using and building Agentic AI, APIs, data models, etc.) Deeply partner with Engineering to balance speed, scope, and technical integrity. Make pragmatic decisions that provide long-term upsides. Stay on top of the changes in the AI space and how they bring radical changes to product and engineering teams’ approach and velocity. Orchestrate GTM with Sales, Marketing, Content and Customer Success. Define positioning, enablement, rollout plans, and feedback loops to drive adoption to market with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Institute operating rhythms that reinforce learning: postlaunch reviews, experiment cadences, KPIs, and decision logs. Operate with an owner/CXO mindset for your portfolio: know the figures, make focused bets, and pivot quickly based on customer feedback. Allocate resources, sunset low ROI work, and double down where impact is greatest. Qualifications 5 years in product management with 2 years managing PMs, ideally in B2B SaaS (manufacturing, supply chain, or sustainability would be preferred.). Track record of shipping successful products from 0 to 1 and at scale, with clear business and user impact. Strong product judgement, customer empathy, and the ability to simplify complex problem spaces. High growth mindset to lead our AI-first platform. Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and cross-functional leadership skills. Bonus: Experience in Sustainability, Supply Chain, Manufacturing (all in AI-powered) products. BONUS if you have a software engineering background, and are comfortable using AI tools (Cursor, Claude, etc.) to quickly prototype or have prior experience coding. That sounds just right to me. Who are we looking for? Tracera is in search of a passionate Head of Product with 5 years of experience in Sustainability or product management in a leadership role. In this role, you will own Tracera’ AI-native product roadmap and vision; act as an organizational glue between prospects, customers, and engineering teams to evangelize, plan and execute on AI‑first features related to our Sustainability Platform that includes GHG, Compliance Reporting and Supplier Engagement modules. This includes managing and growing a team of smart, scrappy and missionary product managers. Our goal is to make operational (structured or semi-structured) data collection, extraction, and reporting easy, efficient, and enjoyable. We help sustainability teams focus on driving meaningful impact in the Sustainability (Environmental, Social, and Governance) domain rather than getting bogged down with reporting tasks. #J-18808-Ljbffr Tracera