About Portcast:
Our mission is to transform international supply chains to be more resilient by helping logistics companies realize the full potential of their data. Our customers include some of the world’s largest shipping lines, cargo airlines and international manufacturers. This covers 90% of the world trade volume that travels via ocean and 35% of world trade value that travels via air.
Based in Singapore, and backed by leading VCs and senior industry advisors, Portcast is a team of young tech and industry talent building a game-changing product for the logistics and shipping industry.
About the role:
We are looking for a Product Manager who is passionate about delivering best-in-class products. As the Product Manager, you will play a key role every step of the way from ideation to prioritization, from vision to strategy, from design to implementation, from customer feedback to customer satisfaction, from MAU to ARR. You will become one of our industry experts, combining customer insights, industry knowledge and technical excellence to make our platform best-in-class.
What You’ll Do:
As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for improving the existing product (including the managing the launch of new features) in line with customer requirements as well as shaping the overall product strategy. Some of your responsibilities include:
- Develop deep expertise: Acquire in-depth knowledge of our product, market, and competitive landscape, establishing yourself as a product leader and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Define product strategy and roadmap: Coordinate and define the product strategy and roadmap, driving successful product launches.
- Create product requirement documents: Document comprehensive product requirements aligned with business goals, market trends, and customer needs.
- UI/UX mockups: Collaborate with the in-house designer to create UI/UX mockups for new features.
- Conceptualize product roadmap: Play an active role in the conceptualization of the product roadmap.
- Collaborate with engineering: Work closely with the engineering team to deliver effective solutions.
- Prioritize enhancements and new features: Help drive consensus and prioritize between enhancements to existing functionality and new features.
- Gather and structure customer requirements/feedback: Proactively collect and organize customer requirements and feedback.
- Design and refine product features: Iteratively design new features, mock up concepts, and develop the product roadmap in collaboration with engineering, data science, and business teams.
- Drive ruthless prioritization: Work with the technical team to prioritize product features that deliver value to our users.
- Manage sprint process: Oversee the sprint process, timelines, user stories, roadblocks, and metrics for the engineering team.
- Support commercialization: Support the marketing and sales team in effectively commercializing the product.
To thrive in this role, you must have:
- A bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent, ideally with specialization in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of working experience with 3+ years of product management experience.
- Experience managing a SaaS or data heavy/analytics product.
- Proven success in impactful product initiatives that significantly benefited users.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering scalable and specialized products aligned with business strategies.
- Demonstrable experience balancing the scalability and specialization of a product.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to envision product vision, strategy, roadmap, features through customer discussions as well as through market research.
- Ability to influence and collaborate across functions and locations to reach ambitious goals.
- Ability to connect the dots between consumer insights through data, primary research (user interaction) secondary research (surveys) and market trends (industry and market).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to execute, learn and iterate quickly.
- Experience in startup environments is a plus.
- Understanding of the logistics / analytics / real-time transportation visibility platform is a major plus.
