Chief Product Officer

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.

The Matter app sits at the center of this experience: nutrition coaching, precision ordering, AI-enabled chat and photo logging, with engagement tools to track progress and inspire action. Wearable device and biomarker integrations support a reinforcement learning cycle to better guide each user and adapt to their evolving needs.

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-in-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

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• 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.