Product Manager

Senior Product Manager Logistics / Shipping Platforms

Role Summary

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the product vision, scope, roadmap, and delivery outcomes for complex logistics and shipping technology platforms. This role is strategic and execution-focused, requiring deep understanding of customer workflows, feature scope, engineering effort, development cost, and long-term roadmap planning.

The Product Manager is expected to think like a business owner, ensuring the right features are built, at the right time, with full awareness of cost, complexity, and value.

Experience & Background

Minimum 8+ years of Product Management experience in SaaS or platform products

Proven experience owning end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery to production

Strong advantage: prior domain experience in Shipping, Freight Forwarding, Logistics, Supply Chain, WMS, or ERP

Experience working closely with engineering, UX, QA, and DevOps teams

Background in startup or scale-up environments where prioritization and trade-offs are critical

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Ownership & Vision

Own the product vision and feature roadmap aligned with business goals

Clearly define what to build, why to build it, and what success looks like

Balance customer needs, operational realities, and technical feasibility

Continuously evolve the product based on feedback, data, and delivery insights

2. Scope Definition & Feature Clarity (Critical)

Translate business and customer requirements into clear, actionable product scope

Define epics, features, and acceptance criteria with zero ambiguity

Ensure teams fully understand functional depth, edge cases, and dependencies

Prevent scope creep by making informed prioritization decisions

3. Cost, Effort & Feasibility Awareness

Work with engineering to estimate development effort and delivery timelines

Understand cost drivers including team capacity, complexity, cloud usage, and technical debt

Evaluate scope vs cost vs timeline trade-offs before committing to roadmaps

Make prioritization decisions grounded in business value and delivery cost

4. Roadmap Planning & Predictability

Own and maintain a realistic, execution-aware product roadmap

Predict delivery timelines based on actual capacity and constraints

Identify future dependencies, risks, and resourcing needs early

Adjust roadmap proactively based on learnings from execution

5. Execution Partnership with Engineering

Partner closely with Engineering Leads and Architects to align product intent with technical reality

Participate actively in planning, reviews, and release readiness

Ensure features are built to production-grade quality, not just functional completion

Balance speed, scalability, and maintainability in product decisions

6. Stakeholder & Customer Alignment

Act as the single product owner for internal stakeholders and leadership

Clearly communicate roadmap, priorities, trade-offs, and impact

Gather and synthesize customer feedback to influence product direction

Ensure alignment between customer expectations and delivery reality

7. Cloud & Platform Awareness (GCP)

Work with teams operating on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to understand platform implications

Be aware of how architectural choices impact scalability, cost, and delivery timelines

Ensure product decisions are compatible with infrastructure and operational constraints

8. Domain-Led Product Thinking (Logistics Advantage)

Understand logistics workflows such as shipments, jobs, documentation, billing, compliance, tracking, and integrations

Design features that reflect real operational complexity, not theoretical flows

Reduce rework by aligning product decisions with real-world logistics operations

Required Skills & Competencies

Strong experience with Agile / Scrum product practices

Excellent prioritization and decision-making skills

Ability to convert ambiguous requirements into structured product scope

Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset

Clear, confident communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Hands-on experience with tools such as Jira, zoho

Added Advantages

Experience building logistics, freight, or shipping platforms

Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS architectures

Experience with API-first or integration-heavy products

Prior ownership of product roadmaps and delivery forecasting