Staff Product Manager

Posted 15 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
Senior level
Logistics • Software • Transportation
We make supply chains work.
The Role
The Staff Product Manager will oversee key product initiatives at project44, working closely with development, marketing, sales, and support teams. Responsibilities include articulating product strategy, managing engineering challenges, launching new capabilities, assessing market competition, and representing the company in customer interactions.
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Why project44? 

At project44, we revolutionize supply chains with our High-Velocity Supply Chain Platform. As the connective tissue of the supply chain, project44 optimizes global product movement, delivering unparalleled resiliency, sustainability, and value for our customers. We operate the world's most trusted end-to-end visibility platform, tracking over 1 billion shipments annually for 1,300 leading brands across various industries, including manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences, food & beverage, and oil, chemical & gas. Our High-Velocity platform eliminates supply chain friction, enabling sophisticated inventory control, exceptional customer experience, and predictive analytics through machine learning and automation. 

If you’re eager to be part of a winning team that works together to solve some of the most challenging supply chain challenges every day, let’s talk. 

Description:  

You’re looking for next opportunity as a Staff Product Manager to bring the passion, work ethic and expertise needed to lead key product initiatives at a fast-growing tech startup. You are very enthusiastic about managing the complete product lifecycle to ensure success in terms of both revenue and the timely release of new products and capabilities. You thrive working closely with your counterparts on the Development team to ensure successful product delivery as well as collaborate with extended team members in Marketing, Sales, Support, and other departments.  

 What you’re most excited for:   

  • Articulate a product strategy leading to solutions that continuously and incrementally improve product culture  
  • Manage challenges for your engineering team, and always ensure they have a strong understanding of customer problems, why those are important, and a robust backlog of well-defined use cases to solve  
  • Work with marketing, sales enablement, and customer success teams to launch new capabilities in a way that empowers those teams to make customers successful  
  • Define and drive success via OKRs and KPIs for end users along a funnel of adoption after launch, troubleshooting areas of friction, and delivering solutions to reduce adoption obstacles  
  • Assess market competition by comparing project44’s products to competitors' products.  
  • Analyze data and collaborate with customers, partners, and x-functional stakeholders to understand the broader business needs and build consensus  
  • Represent project44 as a domain and product expert during customer interaction  

Requirements & Skills:   

  • Bachelor’s degree in any discipline that has propelled you to build tech chops in your career, from computer science to business.  
  • 8+ years overall industry experience with 5+ years of Product Management leadership, experience building enterprise SaaS  
  • Experience building and driving a roadmap, based in customer needs, with a clear path to incremental delivery   
  • Experience presenting to executive leadership, participating in the sales cycle, and handling sensitive customer escalations   
  • Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to rapidly develop and cultivate relationships with peers, partners, and key influencers across a software business   
  • Passion and empathy for the product and for our users and strong belief in the mission of creating customer and user value.  
  • Ability to self-manage and act with autonomy.  
  • Detail oriented, but also strategic. You should be able to context switch from guiding on implementation details to giving a company presentation with ease and aplomb.  
  • This position may require travel to global project44, customers, and partner locations.  
  • Supply chain and/or logistics experience is required.  

Diversity & Inclusion  

At project44, we're designing the future of how the world moves and is connected through trade and global supply chains. As we work to deliver a truly world-class product and experience, we are also intentionally building teams that reflect the unique communities we serve. We’re focused on creating a company where all team members can bring their authentic selves to work every day.  

We’re building a company that every one of us at project44 is proud to work for, and our journey of becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization, where all have a sense of belonging, is shaped through the actions of our leadership, global teams and individual team members. We are resolute in our belief that each team member has an equal responsibility to mold and uphold our culture.  

project44 is an equal opportunity employer seeking to enrich our work environment by creating opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds and experiences to thrive. If you share our values and our passion for helping the way the world moves, we’d love to review your application!  

For any needed accommodations during the hiring process, please email [email protected]. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above job description you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements.  

More about project44   

Since 2014, project44 has been transforming the way one of the largest, most important global industries does business. As transportation and logistics continue to evolve and customer expectations around delivery become more demanding, industry technology must rise to the occasion. In just a few short years, we have created a digital infrastructure that eliminates the inefficiencies caused by dated technology and manual processes. Our Advanced Visibility Platform is used by the world’s leading brands to track shipments, collaborate with supply chain partners, drive operational efficiencies, and create outstanding customer experiences. 

Top Skills

SaaS
The Company
Chicago, IL
1,195 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

project44 is the world’s leading advanced visibility platform for shippers and logistics service providers as defined by number of carriers, number of customers, ARR, net retention, shipments per day, growth rate and gross margin. project44 connects, automates, and provides visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and shorten the time it takes to turn those insights into actions. Leveraging the power of the project44 cloud-based platform, organizations increase operational efficiencies, reduce costs, improve shipping performance, and deliver an exceptional experience to their customers. Connected to thousands of carriers worldwide and having comprehensive coverage for all ELD and telematics devices on the market, project44 supports all transportation modes and shipping types, including Air, Parcel, Final-Mile, Less-than-Truckload, Volume Less-than-Truckload, Groupage, Truckload, Rail, Intermodal, and Ocean. In 2021, project44 was named a Leader among Real-Time Transportation Visibility Providers in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

Why Work With Us

project44 is for the change makers, opportunity takers, future shapers, barrier breakers, and industry shakers. We have ambitious goals to meet with the help of our diverse, global team members who continuously challenge what's possible, roll up their sleeves, and propel growth.

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