VP, Product Management

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. 

About you: 

You’re an experienced and commercially-minded product lead, looking for your next opportunity as Product Director/VP 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. 

Your responsibilities will include:  

• Define compelling commercial propositions and user stories to assist with development of our platform. 
• Support the global sales teams in responding to customer and sales request (both information and evolutions) and serve as a commercial subject matter expert
• Enable our sales teams and partners with excellent product presentations, product demos, and commercial product training 
• Develop competitive product positioning, perform market analysis, customer surveys and competitor surveillance 
• Launch new products in the marketplace and ensure organizational readiness to maximize commercial success and secure a high-impact execution
• Contribute to the product roadmap, working closely with our technical and development teams
• Translate ambitions for new product launches into impactful marketing plans, and create powerful marketing tools
• Establish internal templates and formalize processes related to development, testing, and deployment 

We are looking for someone with:  

• Direct experience developing technology products for cloud-based SaaS companies, preferably with portfolios that feature modern API or middleware products 
• Ability to thrive in a performance-oriented international environment
• Strategic thinker who can blend business strategy with knowledge of products and technology to develop and execute a long-term product roadmap 
• Strong communication skills; ability to speak to, as well as influence, engineers, project managers, sales counterparts, corporate leadership, partners, and customers 
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to rapidly develop and cultivate relationships with peers, partners, and key influencers 
• Ability to identify and discuss both the big picture as well as necessary details to bring ideas to fruition 
• Experience in Supply Chain Management, Third Party Logistics and Transport Management implementation is an advantage, but you will also be able to rely on strong support from our local Product Managers
• This position requires occasional travel to customer and non-customer sites in North America and Europe

Diversity & Inclusion

We're designing the future of how the world moves and is connected through trade and global supply chains. We can only deliver a truly world-class product and experience if our teams are as diverse and unique communities we are building for. So it's up to us to create a company where anyone can bring their authentic self to work everyday. We're constantly working to improve, and we accept our responsibility to elevate the voices left in the margins. It's on every one of us.

Our focus on inclusion manifests in the way we hire, the customers we serve, and the regions we prioritize. We're building a company that every one of us at project44 is proud to work for: a company that celebrates you for being you.

We pride ourselves on celebrating everyone — project44 is an equal opportunity employer actively working on creating a diverse and inclusive work environment where underrepresented groups can thrive. If you share our values and our passion for helping the way the world moves, we’