Head of Product

Location: Nashville, TN (in person, 3 days a week).

Compensation: $200K-$250K (OTE DOE) + meaningful equity

Reports to: Founder & CEO

tl;dr

We’re hiring a Head of Product to own how our roadmap gets built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll shape the product strategy and work with our CEO on the biggest bets while managing the day‑to‑day. As an AI‑forward company, you’ll be hands‑on with real authority for how we build and how we deliver. You’ll help us navigate a world where Product can not only define the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ but also the ‘how.’

We’ll lean on you to deliver the translation of big ideas and bets into sequenced build plans, clear specs, and frequent product releases.

Edgevanta builds pricing intelligence and AI agents that help heavy civil contractors estimate and bid work faster and more accurately. Our Founder and CEO is a 4th generation contractor who worked in the business most of his life before starting the company.

Contractors use Edgevanta to study competitor bids across all 50 state DOTs, forecast unit prices, track the margin they capture, and analyze large bid packages (plans, specs, and forms). We work with top contractors like C.W. Matthews, Barnhill, and Emery Sapp & Sons.

Our goal is to become the mission critical platform for preconstruction in heavy civil: every bid package goes into Edgevanta, agents do the work with a human in the loop, and the whole bid gets built there.

A complex highway bid takes about four weeks, often with two to three people working on it full time. A typical workflow involves reading plans and specs, takeoffs (measuring and counting material quantities from project plans), creating cost estimates, sorting out sub contractor and supplier quotes, and researching prices. Pricing intelligence alone is a grind.

The pool of people who do this work are shrinking. More than 150,000 people estimate civil work in the US, and 40% of the construction workforce will retire in the next seven years. Estimators are retiring faster than they're being replaced, and new ones are hard to train. It's a $15B labor problem.

We think AI can help with the tidal wave of retirements all the while taking those four weeks down to a few minutes, with an estimator in the loop. It succeeds when the agents do the manual work correctly, show their work instead of acting as a black box, and let the estimator override anything. Done right, contractors build for less, estimating stops being the constraint on how much they can bid, and estimators get home earlier and spend more time on job sites.

Every road, bridge, tunnel, and site development you drive through was estimated and built by somebody. We are deeply passionate about improving this process so that our country’s infrastructure is rebuilt as efficiently as possible by these hard working folks.

We ship fast and our roadmap is ambitious: document review, roll plots, takeoffs, and eventually the full estimate. The constraint is no longer ideas. It's sequencing, scope, and getting customers onto new workflows once they ship.

Today the CEO carries both the vision and the day‑to‑day product decisions. We need someone who, initially, owns the second half: deciding what gets built in what order, writing the specs, holding the dates, and making sure what ships get used. We’re looking for someone comfortable owning the roadmap, collaborating with multiple stakeholders, and pushing back constructively when scopes or timelines don’t hold up.

• Own the roadmap: one plan, organized by what matters most, with release dates
• Spend real time with estimators, chief estimators, and VPs. Watch how they bid today and bring it back into the product
• Become the…