Staff Product Manager

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.  

In-office Commitment: This position requires a commitment to contribute to our collaborative culture by working in-office three days weekly, if you are based out of Chiago, IL.

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.