Chief Product Officer

Job description

About Matter

Matter is building the first nutrition platform that pairs personalized nutrition intelligence with precisely tailored meals. Think of Matter as a personal nutritionist in your pocket (the app) speaking directly to your private chef (the restaurants). Our app learns each user’s goals, preferences and health data to provide meal recommendations based on their exact nutritional needs. By closing the loop between digital health signals and healthy food preparation, Matter makes precision nutrition as easy as ordering a meal.

About Matter

Matter is building the first nutrition platform that pairs personalized nutrition intelligence with precisely tailored meals. Think of Matter as a personal nutritionist in your pocket (the app) speaking directly to your private chef (the restaurants). Our app learns each user’s goals, preferences and health data to provide meal recommendations based on their exact nutritional needs. By closing the loop between digital health signals and healthy food preparation, Matter makes precision nutrition as easy as ordering a meal.

Role Overview

We're looking for a Chief Product Officer to own the Matter app end to end. The app has to win on two fronts: as a standalone subscription product that competes with the best nutrition apps on the market, and as the ordering and tracking layer for our restaurants. Your job is to make each side best‑class on its own and more powerful together. You'll lead our engineering and design teams, own the roadmap, and ship quickly against business priorities while continuously improving based on data and user feedback. You'll work directly with the founding team and partner closely with marketing and operations.

Core Responsibilities

Own the full product lifecycle for the Matter app, from vision and discovery through build, launch, and iteration

Be a daily power user of the app and talk to users every week, with firsthand knowledge of where it delights and where it falls short

Know the competitive landscape inside and out, from nutrition and macro tracking apps to leading restaurant ordering experiences, and use it to sharpen where Matter wins

Balance the roadmap between the standalone subscription app and the restaurant ordering experience, making clear, data‑backed calls on where to invest

Define how the app serves users with no Matter location nearby while creating clear value for those who can order from us

Own the AI coaching experience and personalization model, including conversational and photo logging, adaptive plans, and wearable and lab integrations

Own the subscription funnel from onboarding through trial‑to‑paid conversion and retention

Own the product analytics stack and run a steady cadence of experiments, pairing behavioral data with direct user feedback to drive roadmap decisions

Prioritize across new features, core UX, and technical debt, and make clear calls on what not to build

Set product OKRs tied to activation, subscription conversion, retention, order frequency, and LTV

Execution & Team Leadership

Lead engineering and design day to day, with specs clear enough to ship from

Run a fast release cadence with tight scope and quick iteration

Hire and grow the product and design team as we scale

Partner with marketing on launches and lifecycle, and with operations to make sure what the app promises, the kitchen can deliver

Users & Market

Know the nutrition and macro tracking landscape and leading restaurant ordering experiences inside and out

Talk to users every week

What We're Looking For

5–8+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years leading product at an early‑stage startup or a small autonomous team

Personally passionate about health, wellness, and fitness; experience using macro tracking apps is a big plus

Deeply data‑driven and hands‑on with behavioral analytics platforms

Track record of shipping consumer mobile products that moved retention, engagement, or revenue

Experience growing a consumer subscription app, with a strong grasp of conversion and retention metrics

Experience shipping AI or LLM‑powered product features, and a clear view of where they help users and where they don't

Uses AI tools daily in their own work, from research and specs to prototyping and data analysis, and knows how to build workflows that make a small team move faster

Sound judgment on prioritization across competing business lines, with a track record of allocating limited engineering resources where they drive the most impact

Experience with health data integrations (Apple Health, Oura, Whoop, CGMs) or ML‑driven personalization is a plus

Experience with commerce or ordering flows is a plus

Technical enough to earn engineering's trust: you understand architecture tradeoffs, APIs, and mobile release cycles

Strong product taste and design instincts

Comfortable in ambiguity, with a bias toward shipping over planning

Founder‑level ownership mentality; this role will define the product

Why Matter

Build a category‑defining consumer product from the ground up

Direct impact on company direction and growth

Tight collaboration with the founding team

Competitive compensation + meaningful equity

Build a product that helps people eat better, feel better, and reach their health goals every day

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000–$250,000 base, based on experience

Meaningful equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible PTO plus paid company holidays

Paid parental leave

Free Matter meals

Matter is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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Worksite address

new york, NY, 10261, US

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