Product Strategist

Location

New York, NY or San Francisco, CA

About Replica

Replica provides data about the built environment and ways people interact with it.

With better data, human‑context and an intuitive design, Replica helps public and private sectors make informed, effective, and responsive decisions.

By showing how people live, move and work, we contextualize hard choices, allowing our clients to see around corners and understand the trade‑offs surrounding their decisions.

Whether for a city planner increasing public transit to underserved neighborhoods or for a grocery chain evaluating where to open a new location, Replica’s insights let customers make more informed, people‑centered decisions.

We spun out of Alphabet in 2019 and recently secured series B funding from venture firms including Founders Fund, Innovation Endeavors, Sidewalk Labs, Firebrand Ventures, and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.

Today, we are a team of 34 employees with offices in San Francisco, New York and Kansas City.

We value our customers, believe in being resourceful, and work in service of each other to scale our product.

As we build our team, we are committed to pursuing and bringing together a diverse workforce and creating an environment of inclusion.

We value our differences and we encourage all to apply.

We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Role Overview

Replica is looking for a high‑ownership individual contributor who can operate across both the technical and strategic dimensions of new product development.

Demonstrate a high sense of ownership and curiosity with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Comfortable talking to customers, deeply understanding their problems, and identifying solutions.

Comfortable building data‑centered applications and working prototypes to solve customer problems with Replica data and modeling.

Role sits in between the product engineering team and business development to explore new product concepts and test product hypotheses.

Comfortable in sales contexts and with building as an individual.

Traditional software engineering experience is not required, but technical abilities and experience are a huge asset.

Understand and demonstrate capabilities around using LLM coding agents and low‑code tools to build systems that work and solve problems.

IC reporting to the VP of Forward Deployed Engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead one or more nascent product concepts from end to end.

Scope, data integrations, data analysis, and build working prototypes as an individual contributor.

On complex concepts, collaborate closely with forward deployed engineering teammates to build new applications together.

Actively identify opportunities for account expansion or new product adoption with customers and prospects.

Develop pricing strategies and proposals for service‑driven pilots and account expansions.

Develop discovery conversations, scoping workshops, executive briefings, and power user development.

Define and deliver Replica’s product roadmap by working across teams and with external users.

Identify gaps, use cases, and opportunities based on field experience.

Work with software engineers and data developers to scope and prototype new features or full applications.

Develop analytical models or apps on top of Replica’s data.

Drive adoption of new features through customer rollouts and iterative feedback.

Own projects or features from problem scoping through deployment.

Qualifications

3+ years in consulting, civic tech, product strategy, or data analytics OR 1+ year of software development.

Familiarity with geospatial data, transportation systems, or urban planning.

Experience using tools like SQL, Python, or low‑code app builders.

Strong interpersonal skills, maturity, good judgment, and capability to communicate with a diverse range of individuals.

Hands‑on, action‑oriented approach that fits well with an entrepreneurial, fast‑paced culture.

Broad functional experience in areas of strategic planning and marketing, sales and market development and planning.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary based on experience and potential for impact.

Equity at an early stage startup.

Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and FSA options; 401(k) account + employer safe harbor contribution.

Offices in San Francisco, CA, New York and Kansas City.

Flexible PTO.

Replica is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Base salary range for this position is $120,000 to $190,000.

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors unique to each candidate.

Total compensation package includes equity stock options, employee benefit package, 401(k) with 3% safe harbor employer contribution, unlimited PTO, and may also include other applicable incentive compensation and/or bonuses.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodation

Replica is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

Additional Information

For more information, visit https://replicahq.com/careers.

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