Chief Product Officer

Halter is looking for our first Chief Product Officer. Reporting into the CEO, and a key member of our Executive team you’ll own and shape the strategy behind the future of our product on the global stage.

You will lead our product and design functions end-to-end: bringing the product vision to life, driving strategy, building world class teams, and ensuring what we ship is both technically excellent and genuinely transformative for farmers and ranchers worldwide.

We're looking for a leader who operates at the intersection of strategy, leadership, craft, and execution, someone who leads from the front, sets direction, raises the quality bar, and builds the systems that allow Halter's product to continue to distance itself as globally best in class.

Halter exists to enable half the planet's habitable landmass to be more productive and sustainable. To achieve this, we're building the digital operating system for agriculture - bringing Physical AI to the farm and transforming the hardest real-world problems in pastoral farming into problems we can solve in the digital domain: virtual fencing, animal shifting, pasture management and behavioural and health monitoring, all from a single app. Where competitors offer point solutions, Halter delivers a complete, integrated platform that lets farmers and ranchers do in seconds what once took hours of manual labor.

Halter's recurring revenue grew by over 2.5x through 2025 and has only accelerated in 2026, with over half a million collars deployed across New Zealand, Australia, and the United States - more than all competitors combined. The market opportunity easily exceeds the 10’s of Billions. Agriculture is a massive industry that is currently underserved by technology, providing significant white space for new product lines to come to market.

Valued at $1 billion following its Series D in June 2025, Halter is backed by a world-class investor base including BOND, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, NewView Capital and Icehouse Ventures - collectively behind companies like Airbnb, Stripe, SpaceX, Canva, Shopify, and New Zealand’s own Rocket Lab.

Halter operates in the real world. Our product has become a digital twin of land and animals, guiding livestock, modelling farms, and monitoring behaviour in real time. It’s used by farmers and ranchers in the field 365 days a year, 7 days a week. Our customers span a wide spectrum: some are highly data-driven and AI-fluent, while others may be using digital tools in their business for the first time. Crafting product experiences that are powerful yet intuitive across this range is critical to our success. Much of what we build has no existing template. We regularly tackle greenfield technical and product challenges, and our willingness to push into new territory keeps us ahead of the industry.

Product Vision & Strategy

• Define and lead Halter’s end-to-end product vision, shaping the strategy, principles, and long-term roadmap.

• Ensure the product strategy is tightly aligned with Halter’s mission, business model, and global expansion ambitions, positioning the product as a core driver of our long-term competitive advantage.

• Establish and evolve Halter’s product operating model, how teams prioritise, plan, and execute, enabling our Product org to continue to move quickly while maintaining a consistently high bar for product quality.

• Drive bold product evolution where necessary, balancing rapid iteration with transformational rebuilds that position the platform for the next decade of growth.

• Embed Halter’s AI and data strategy deeply into the product roadmap, ensuring the platform compounds in value as adoption scales.

Product, Engineering & Commercial Partnership

• As a key member of our Executive team, own and drive product strategy in partnership with wider Executive team to deliver meaningful commercial outcomes.

• Ensure product development is grounded in customer insight, operational realities, and commercial impact, balancing user needs with technical constraints and business priorities.

• Drive product strategies that support global scale, including seamless onboarding, product adoption, and platform usability across diverse farming environments globally.

Product Organisation & Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow Halter’s product organisations across multiple product domains.

• Build a high-performing product organisation grounded in ownership, craft, velocity, and accountability for outcomes.

• Raise the talent density of the team by attracting exceptional product talent and investing deeply in their development.

• Establish clear operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and product development practices that allow the organisation to scale effectively as Halter grows.

Execution & Product Excellence

• Maintain a high bar for product quality and execution across every part of the platform, staying close to critical product decisions while empowering teams to move with speed.

• Champion strong product thinking through experimentation, customer insight, AI and data-informed decision making.

• Establish best practices across product discovery, delivery, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

• Foster a culture of rapid, high-quality shipping, where field testing and real-world customer feedback drive constant learning and iteration.

• An experienced product leader or a CTO with a strong product background.

• Technically minded, comfortable in the detail of complex, data-rich, real-time products. Able to think critically and in 1st principles.

• Low ego. Opinionated and fearless, but pragmatic and precise. Hardworking and resilient. Comfortable making hard trade offs in fast moving environments, with what's best for Halter and our customers always in mind.

• Genuinely motivated by real-world impact, building something that will continue to revolutionise one of the world's most important industries.

• Bonus points if you have hardware or deep tech experience but not required.

The standard benefits are there, the things you'd expect from any competitive tech company. But that's table stakes. What's genuinely different here is the impact and ownership. As Chief Product Officer, you won't be inheriting a finished product, you'll be shaping a category. The decisions you make in the next 18 - 36 months will define what this company becomes, who it serves, and how it scales. That kind of foundational influence is rare at this stage, and it's the kind of work that moves markets.

Lastly, when Halter wins, you win meaningfully - and materially. This role carries a current $1M + in total target compensation, inclusive of equity, representing a genuine ownership stake in a company being built to last. As Halter continues to scale in adoption and revenue, so does your overall compensation.

Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace - a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!

If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we’ll be in touch!

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