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title: 'Head of Product at Tread'
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# Head of Product at Tread

- **Company:** Tread
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tread/4f9049e0-ccc9-4c2e-a7e8-07e7e2e2649a

## Job description

Company Tread is the AI-native operating system for the $660B construction materials logistics market: the aggregate, asphalt, and concrete behind every road, bridge, and building in the country. Our customers run the gamut: enterprise producers and contractors that supply the world's largest infrastructure projects, alongside the family-owned hauling fleets that have moved the material this work depends on for generations. They're the operators who actually build the roads, bridges, and buildings around us. Most of the work still happens on paper tickets, phone calls, and disconnected scale houses. We're building the software they run on. We crossed $2Bn in monthly delivered load value on the platform in July 2026. We’re at ~$XM ARR, and growing fast. Our enterprise customers reconcile real money, real freight, and real P&L against our data every day. Tread is the most important software they use. We’re a Series A company backed by Mucker Capital. We’re in growth mode. If you are fulfilled by ownership and a life-changing outcome, let’s connect.

## Role

We are hiring a hands-on product leader invigorated by how agents change the SDLC and product development. You will serve as the primary product partner for the CEO, taking full ownership of the product cycle and execution of critical roadmap areas, like payments and agentic scheduling optimization. You will spend significant time with our customers, like being onsite at construction sites to uncover critical user journeys and key value drivers. You will be responsible in building the system that allows our small team to ship software at high speeds. You will inherit a culture where everyone across the company is utilizing Claude Code in Terminal, and where majority of non-engineers are shipping PRs. Your job is to professionalize the cadence without slowing it down, and create the leverage needed for the company to scale. We have zero patience for corporate fluff; we care about what you shipped this week and the quality of the feedback loop you've built.

In This Role, You Will

- Own the product loop: Convert field-level customer pain into shipped solutions by noon the next day.
- Be the CEO's primary thought partner on platform strategy, technical architecture, and prioritization.
- Drive the AI-native SDLC: Treat our development process as a product in itself, optimizing for speed through coding agents and automated workflows.
- Hire and scale the FDE function: You will lead the Forward Deployed Engineering team, ensuring they act as "founders-in-training" who ship customizations directly with customers.
- Eliminate layers: Maintain a culture of high agency where there is no committee between a good idea and production.

## Requirements

AI-Native Builder The SDLC is the product. You must be obsessed with using agent-based workflows, rapid prototyping, and coding agents to ship faster. If you aren't using AI to research, write specs, and prototype daily, you aren't the right fit.

Leading the FDE Function You will hire, manage, and scale our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team. You'll ensure the FDE feedback loop—field pain to shipped feature—is tight, immediate, and high-velocity.

Operator DNA 7–12+ years shipping software in high-growth, high-stakes environments. You should have a track record of owning product strategy and technical decision-making without needing hand-holding.

## Why Tread

We're building software for the operators who build America. Construction materials logistics is one of the largest essential industries in the world, and the software powering it remains decades behind. You'll receive meaningful Series A equity in a business with strong product-market fit, rapidly growing enterprise customers, and more than $1B in monthly platform volume. You'll work directly with the CEO while helping define the future of one of the industry's most important technology platforms. You'll have enormous ownership. There are no layers between you and meaningful decisions. You'll work alongside a small team of exceptional builders who care deeply about speed, quality, and customer outcomes. We offer competitive compensation, meaningful equity, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), unlimited PTO, and a transportation stipend.

## Why You Shouldn't Work With Us

- You prefer highly structured environments with clearly defined responsibilities.
- You want multiple management layers between yourself and decision-making.
- You aren't excited about working in person.
- You see product management primarily as roadmap administration rather than problem solving.
- You aren't deeply integrating AI into how you work every day.
- You prefer consensus over decisive prioritization.
- You struggle to make difficult tradeoffs with incomplete information.
- You want to own meetings more than outcomes.

Interview Process

- Recruiter Interview
- CEO Interview
- Product Leadership + Technical Product Thinking Interview
- Product Case Study & Cross-Functional Onsite Panel
- Reference Conversations
- Offer

## Compensation & Location

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $200,000–$250,000 + equity. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, and overall qualifications. This is an in-person position based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Regular collaboration with teammates across product, engineering, and leadership is a core part of how we work.

Work Authorization: Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship now or at any point in the future. Tread is unable to provide visa sponsorship or future sponsorship support.

## About Tread

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tread is an AI-native vertical SaaS platform that digitizes and optimizes bulk materials logistics for the construction industry.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Not publicly confirmed (CEO Sameer Bhalla is often associated with the company’s founding team)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Construction materials logistics, supply chain software, construction technology (ConTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B – construction materials producers (e.g., aggregates, asphalt, concrete), haulers/fleets, and contractors; serves both global enterprises and family-run businesses
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Help producers, haulers, and contractors save time and money by digitizing the end-to-end process of buying and moving construction materials.” [tread.ai]

## Products & Services
- **[Tread Platform]**: A unified, cloud‑based system for order management, dispatch, billing, and payments. Includes a mobile app for drivers and field staff, AI‑powered truck routing and loaded‑mile optimization, and personalized AI agents for customer service. Integrates with scale houses, ERPs, and other third‑party systems. [tread.ai][tracxn.com]
- **[Tread Materials Intelligence]**: An analytics layer providing insights on hauling performance, compliance, and payroll automation. The platform is SOC2 compliant. [LinkedIn post]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Crossed **$1 billion in monthly delivered load value** on the platform as of March 2026 (at ~$XM ARR, not disclosed) [fwddeploy.com]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Crosslink Capital (led Series A in 2022), Real Ventures (led Seed round), Mucker Capital (Series A round in 2026), Techstars. [tracxn.com][fwddeploy.com]
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 32.4% headcount growth year‑over‑year (22 employees as of mid‑2026) [LinkedIn]
  - 7 active job postings across engineering, sales, and marketing roles [LinkedIn]
  - Expanded from a single office in San Francisco to a second office in Toronto, Canada [LinkedIn]
  - Customers include **Cemex, Tomlinson, Martin Marietta, R&R Transport, John Aarts Group, Gulfshore Trucking** [tread.ai]

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI‑native vertical SaaS**: Deeply embedded AI (routing, planning, customer agents) tailored specifically to the construction materials supply chain, creating a data‑driven moat.
- **End‑to‑end unification**: Replaces fragmented legacy tools (order management, dispatch, billing) with a single, modern platform, reducing manual work and errors.
- **Field‑driven product development**: Engineers work directly with customers in the field, enabling rapid, context‑aware feature development (feedback loop measured in hours) [fwddeploy.com].
- **Strong customer validation**: Serves both large public companies and small family‑run operations, demonstrating broad market fit.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale ARR**: The top priority is growing from current ($XM) to $XXM+ ARR [fwddeploy.com].
- **Hire field‑facing engineers**: “Forward Deployed Engineers” who combine engineering skills with customer‑facing roles to bridge product and operations.
- **Deepen AI capabilities**: Continue to build AI agents, intelligent routing, and predictive analytics that make the platform stickier and more valuable.
- **Expand geographic footprint**: Grow the dual‑office (San Francisco / Toronto) team and increase presence at industry events.

## Why Work Here
- **Early‑stage growth**: Series A company with proven product‑market fit and rapid expansion – opportunity to have high ownership and impact.
- **Culture of autonomy and ownership**: Engineers are expected to ship features the same day they identify customer problems; low‑ego, high‑ownership environment [fwddeploy.com].
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Team is distributed across North America (including one team member on a Caribbean island); bi‑annual offsites bring the whole company together [LinkedIn].
- **Engineering focus**: Modern tech stack (Rails, GraphQL, React, Intercom, PostHog) and a commitment to building with AI. The company values builder‑minded engineers who enjoy being on customer sites.
- **Perks**: SOC2 compliance shows seriousness about security; opportunities to travel and work directly with construction logistics operations.

## Sources
1. [tread.ai](https://tread.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/treadai)
3. [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/tread/__f1TTZCnbB-f4xSSPeTGTa4PaO1fUqC-KaJggmL3Q_lI)
4. [SignalHire](https://www.signalhire.com/companies/tread-inc)
5. [Forward Deployed Engineer Job Posting](https://www.fwddeploy.com/jobs/ai-native-forward-deployed-engineer-93cab6f3)

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