Product Manager
Company Overview
project44 is revolutionizing the freight and logistics industry by applying cutting edge technologies to automate the entire lifecycle of freight shipments including quoting, scheduling, and real-time visibility. project44’s network of APIs is capable of optimizing the shipment lifecycle, empowering companies to deliver the best customer experience possible, and provide up to date data while cutting costs along the way.
Key Responsibilities
- Assume product ownership and manage the entire product lifecycle from strategic planning to tactical execution
- Contribute to product strategy and roadmaps, develop product opportunity assessments, conduct competitive analysis, define user and buyer personas
- Lead the definition of product requirements using input from various sources including external sources such as market trends, technology innovations, industry regulations, competitive intelligence, and customers as well as internal sources such as sales, marketing, and customer support
- Define and drive priorities for engineering sprints and product releases
- Work closely with customers to garner feedback and understand their evolving business needs
- Organize and implement product launch plans in collaboration with Product Marketing
- Perform and report on competitive positioning and financial results
Qualifications:
- 2-3 years of product development experience, preferably with creating & launching new products, ideally in the Shipping & Logistics industry
- Direct experience developing technology products for cloud-based SaaS companies, preferably with portfolios that feature modern API or middleware products
- Demonstrated success defining, launching, growing and supporting market-leading products
- Strategic thinker who can blend business strategy with knowledge of products and technology to develop and execute a compelling vision
- Strong communication skills; ability to speak to, as well as influence, engineers, project managers, sales counterparts, corporate leadership, partners, and clients
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to rapidly develop and cultivate relationships with peers, partners, and key influencers
- Ability to identify and discuss both the big picture as well as necessary details to bring ideas to fruition
- Ability to see all tasks through to completion, consistently, with a high attention to detail
- Experience with Agile Development methodologies
- Undergraduate degree required
- This position requires occasional travel to customer and non-customer sites in North America
Benefits and Perks
project44 takes care of its employees with a benefits package that goes above and beyond. We believe that happy, healthy employees produce the best work, and we’ve constructed our benefits to reflect that. In addition to a modern workspace, casual dress code, ping pong and arcade, healthy snacks, LaCroix, and more, project44 offers the following:
- We offer Medical, Dental and Vision plans, which you are eligible on first day of employment 401k
- Pre-tax RTA
- 3 weeks vacation annually
- Reimbursement up to $35 a month for health club memberships
- Paid federal holidays and ½ days on the Eve’s
- Pay you for a Volunteer day-
- Employee referral program $1,000 to $3,000 depending on the role