Senior Director of Product, Retail

About the role

Our company is on a mission to reduce food waste and make high-quality, affordable food accessible to everyone. Through our innovative app-based marketplace, we connect shoppers with discounted perishable items while helping retailers turn would-be waste into revenue and meaningful environmental impact. We're growing quickly across North America and partnering with retailers of all sizes to expand our reach. If you're passionate about creating real change for people and the planet, we'd love for you to join us. Your work here will directly contribute to a mission that helps families save money, reduces waste, and builds a more sustainable future.

Skills

What we’re looking for:

• Have genuine fluency in retail or grocery — merchandising, store ops, catalog data, and how enterprise grocers make decisions
• Lead with evidence: vet opportunities with data before committing a team, then drive hard to ship
• Are direct, low ego, and energized by defining a category in a lean, fast-moving organization

Nice to have:

• Experience with markdown optimization, pricing systems, inventory management, or shrink-adjacent retail technology
• Familiarity with AI-assisted and agentic product development: products that incorporate LLM agents, automation of operational workflows, or ML-driven pricing and personalization
• Experience building data or insights products for enterprise customers
• Prior experience as the first senior product hire in a domain, building the function around you

Responsibilities

• Own the Product Retail Strategy: define and drive the roadmap for Flashfood's retail platform: partner app, onboarding and activation, catalog integration, dashboards and reporting, and dynamic pricing
• Bring deep retail domain knowledge into every planning cycle so roadmap calls are grounded in how grocers actually operate
• Vet the biggest opportunities with data, size them, and sequence them — your first two quarters set the build plan and the hires that follow
• Lead a Cross-Functional Team: directly manage the Retail pod — engineers, product managers, and designers — with an engineering lead as your player‑coach on architecture
• Own the pod's business goals: stores activated, items posted, partner adoption, and the revenue tied