Senior Product Manager

About Us:

Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view on the global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and society as a whole.

The Challenge: 

Ingesting thousands of rich data points per second from multiple external vastly different data sources, moving terabytes of data while processing it in real-time, running complex and complicated prediction and forecasting AI models while coupling their output into a hybrid human-machine data refinement process and presenting the result through a nimble low-latency SaaS platform used by customers around the globe is no small feat of science and engineering. 

As answering the most fundamental and intricate questions posed by traders, analysts, charterers, hedge funds and other global oil trade market participants involves an unprecedented amount of sophistication and effort, the job of ensuring that the right questions are asked and answered in the right order, to the utmost customer delight comes to the forefront. 

Vortexa delivers top-notch high-quality data and market predictions through a frictionless analytics platform, consisting of intuitive front-end applications, an API and SDK. The Product Management department is responsible for leading collaborative product discovery and delivery to ensure the products we build are valuable and usable by customers, technically feasible and commercially viable. For each product, the team ensures alignment with stakeholders on the vision, strategy and roadmap, leading the company to focus its efforts on the right functionality at the right time with clarity over the scope and KPIs. 

You will join our Product Management team as a key individual contributor, and reporting to the VP of Product, with multiple interfaces outside of R&D. Together with the wider Product Management and Design team you will work to ensure we continue to provide a market leading analytics platform and build an intelligent energy market. 

You’ll Be: 

• Leading product discovery and investment rationales, including gathering feedback and validation from subject matter experts, customers and prospects, ensuring that Vortexa’s product efforts are focused on high-value areas, sorting signal from noise as necessary. 

• Developing and executing on a multi-quarter product roadmap that aligns with the company's mission and strategic goals. Driving stakeholder alignment on the roadmap. 

• Responsible for defining and tracking short and long term success metrics and KPIs which demonstrate impact from LNG investments, including ARR analysis, ROI impact and other product metrics. 

• Influencing and inspiring technical product managers, design, engineering, product marketing and customer success teams to ensure timely and effective delivery of new products, features and improvements and to drive product success. 

• Ensuring delivery by owning the details and being a true partner to engineers, spotting problems before they take root, and escalating or resolving them. 

• Shaping the product management function and processes, aligning industry best practices with Vortexa’s unique culture. 

Requirements

You Are: 

• Experienced at building and launching complex analytical products at scale that have driven a positive return-on-investment through a mindset of concurrent discovery and delivery for B2B SaaS. 

• Having awareness, and ideally possessing  knowledge of, energy commodities markets, or at least similar trading or financial markets with proven learning track record. 

• Adept at partnering with industry experts to lean on their multi-year expertise to make better decisions. 

• Familiar with SVPG teachings, North Star, JTBD, RICE, Kano, GIST models and other tools of the trade. 

• Skilled at ROI calculations and forecasting, competitive analysis, sales enablement training and reasoning about medium-term roadmaps. 

• Passionate about building market-leading and category-defining products, tackling genuinely transformative challenges hands-on, and taking full ownership of the customer journey. 

• Data-driven with a customer focus. Customers are at the heart of what you do, and you can identify the customer problems worth solving, explain your rationale with data and use it to measure success. 

• Able to inspire others and lead by influence. Your teams know how to dream big and align on a commonly agreed vision, while iterating in small incremental steps to reach shared goals. 

• Always learning with a self-driven “can-do” attitude. Demoing to prospects, mocking up user interfaces, querying databases; you’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves and learn new skills to unblock a team. “I’ve done my bit” has no place at Vortexa. 

Benefits

• A vibrant, diverse company pushing ourselves and the technology to deliver beyond the cutting edge
• A team of motivated characters and top minds striving to be the best at what we do at all times
• Constantly learning and exploring new tools and technologies
• Acting as company owners (all Vortexa staff have equity options)– in a business-savvy and responsible way
• Motivated by being collaborative, working and achieving together
• A flexible working policy- accommodating both remote & home working, with regular staff events
• Private Health Insurance offered via Vitality to help you look after your physical health
• Global Volunteering Policy to help you ‘do good’ and feel better