Principal Product Manager

Application Deadline: 1 March 2024

Department: Product

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Oslo (NO) or London (UK)

Reporting To: Fabio Brocca

Description

Key responsibilities in the role

• Define opportunity size and product strategy for our Air Product Portfolio.
• Work to define and prioritize the most valuable market opportunities for Xeneta to continue to grow. 
• Design, prioritize, obtain buy-in, and execute the roadmap for our air products. 
• Influence executive leadership, and collaborate with marketing, customer support, sales, and engineering to solve the most complex challenges for our customers.
• Dive deep into data, to understand our data partners and define the commercial, technical and design integration plans.
• Demonstrate understanding of our industry, our customer, and our data. 
• Own company-level goals and OKRs, reporting progress to executive leadership.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders ensuring that customer feedback is heard and effectively managed. 
• Work is both strategic and tactical. You will manage and prioritise the product backlog effectively, writing user stories in collaboration with UX Designers and Tech Leads to and provide clarity to the product development teams.
• Alongside product marketing, you will run the Go-To-Market process for your products ensuring internal alignment and readiness for launch.
• You will monitor and measure launched products and feed learnings back into the product development process. 
• You will mentor other members of the Product and UX team to raise the bar for Xeneta’s product team.

Required skills and background

• Experience impacting long-term strategy for a major product or suite of product.
• Ability to leverage data and anecdotes to inform product strategy and development.
• Understanding of modern cloud technologies and data processing techniques. Ability to articulate and discuss architectural design decisions.
• Ability to deliver independently but also to know when to escalate. Ability to earn trust and to up-level the entire tech and product organization.
• Continuous improvement of product processes to optimise the business value.
• A desire to mentor team members in the Product and UX function, and across the company.
• An understanding of the shipping and/or air freight logistics industry would be a plus. Likewise experience in a similar industry which has undergone significant digitisation to price transparency.

• You have a positive can-do attitude, can work well both independently and as part of a team – are biased towards action, constantly pushing towards clarity and delivery. You never hesitate to roll-up your sleeves and tackle tasks hands-on.
• You are a champion of product and development working closely together in an agile environment. 
• You are outcome-oriented – able to articulate the customer problem to be solved and focus the team around this goal.
• You are customer-centric and have a passion to instil this focus throughout the product development team, including hands-on experience acting as the voice of the customer and writing user stories. You are passionate about a great user experience which delights our customers.
• You are confident yet humble – we work as a team, solving challenges together.
• You can build collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders – inspiring them with your product strategy and building trust through delivering valuable business outcomes.
• You are fluent in English: oral and written. 

What we offer

• You will be a part of a growing company that is currently redefining a multi-million dollar industry through a period of unprecedented upheaval. Your work will have significant impact on this.
• You will work together with highly motivated colleagues who are curious to learn something new from you, and also to teach you what they are good at.
• You will enjoy our generous vacation plan: 5-10 extra paid days off around public holidays throughout the year, in addition to 5 weeks of paid vacation.
• You can educate yourself during work hours: you can spend several hours each month attending courses, reading books, getting involved in the product management community. We will cover courses, books and conference fees for you.
• We value work-life balance, and we want to make sure you can spend quality time with your family or enjoy your hobbies when your work-day is over.
• We have flexible working hours (core time with meetings is 10:00 to 15:00, the rest is up to you) and you can work remotely for extended periods of time when needed.
• We will help you grow your career: our managers will help identify areas of improvement for you, either if you want to grow into a specialist in your field, or if you want to eventually go into leadership / management direction.

• Our Impact: We’re category leaders digitalizing the way ocean and air freight is procured bringing on-demand actionable data to all industry stakeholders. We’re moving fast.
• Our Technology: Deep data analytics and integrations coupled with a scalable, sleek and beautiful user interface.
• Our Customers: Big companies like Nestle, Electrolux, ABB, John Deere, Unilever, Puma and many others.
• Our Team: Shipping, consulting and tech all-stars on our roster.
• Our Values: We are one. Variety and fairness. Transparency builds trust. Modernization through data.