Product and Platforms Lead

PURPOSE

Urvara cannot remain a bespoke advisory or founder-led service business. This role turns Urvara's thesis, data, workflows, and partner services into usable products, internal tools, and scalable delivery systems.

The job is to cut scope without shrinking the ambition: prove the wedge now, while building toward market infrastructure later.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL OWN

• Product roadmap across NII, NVaR, Nature Ledger, and service-delivery tooling.
• Platform design for buyer workflows, partner workflows, and internal operating systems.
• Data, AI, backend, automation, tool, and database integrations.
• Product UX that turns complex nature, finance, and conservation workflows into clear user journeys.
• Build-versus-buy decisions, vendor coordination, lightweight technical architecture, and release cadence.
• PRDs, prototypes, QA, sprint planning, and shipped product artifacts.

FIRST 90 DAYS

• Roadmap - Map the proof-object stack into a practical roadmap: benchmark, risk, ledger, exchange-like infrastructure.
• MVP - Scope a tight NVaR MVP and define what should explicitly not be built yet.
• Systems - Create the first internal partner / project / buyer database and reusable delivery templates.
• Shipping - Ship at least one product artifact that improves sales, delivery quality, or investor credibility.

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

• Urvara's product roadmap becomes sharper and smaller, not more sprawling.
• The team can reuse data, partner intelligence, and delivery assets instead of rebuilding from scratch.
• Product artifacts help close conversations and improve delivery quality.
• The product system supports service delivery today while pointing toward market infrastructure later.

IDEAL PROFILE

• 5-10+ years in product management, product operations, data products, climate-tech platforms, fintech, SaaS, or 0-to-1 venture building.
• Strong systems thinker who can turn messy domain material into simple user-facing products.
• Comfortable coordinating designers, engineers, analysts, AI tools, and domain experts.
• Bonus: spatial data, financial risk, ESG datasets, knowledge graphs, AI workflows, or marketplace products.

NOT A FIT IF

• You only want to manage engineers, not own product outcomes.
• You need mature specs before acting.
• You overbuild when a sharp prototype would answer the question.

SHARED BAR

• Builder mindset: willing to create the first version of systems, not just operate mature ones.
• High ownership: can turn ambiguity into priorities, documents, conversations, and shipped artifacts.
• Strong writing: proposals, follow-ups, partner notes, specs, rubrics, and internal memos must be crisp.
• Domain humility: can work across nature, business, finance, data, and field realities without pretending any one lens is enough.
• Low-ego collaboration: the first team is small; everyone will sell, write, coordinate, and fix broken workflows.