We’re looking for a Product Manager to lead our ShipperConnect product team, including both product management and people management responsibilities. This is a full-time remote role with a flexible geographic location, but most of the team is in the U.S. Eastern Timezone (ET), so you’ll need significant overlap with ET working hours.
You’ll own all the product and engineering initiatives for the ShipperConnect product, and work closely with the Director of Product Engineering on company-wide product processes. While this role includes managing engineers, a deep technical background is not required. Our senior engineers and CTO will provide technical leadership and guidance, and this role will be more focused on the product direction and people management.
Day-to-day responsibilities include: tracking requests from customers and internal stakeholders and prioritizing them, talking to customers about existing and upcoming features, communicating about product priorities and timelines, documenting and educating others on how the application works, removing blockers from the ShipperConnect team so they can be effective, having 1:1s with the ShipperConnect team and addressing their concerns, conducting yearly reviews and supporting employee growth, hiring and onboarding new team members, working with company leadership on planning future initiatives, managing communications and mitigations for service outages, ensuring the correct balance of work between technical initiatives and product initiatives, making sure the engineering team knows the why behind the work, and maintaining the strong culture the team already possesses.
Travel is required for this role approximately three times a year. Current trips include:
All-staff company onsite, typically in October (location varies)
User event and golf tournament, typically in August (Nashville, TN)
Engineering team onsite (location and timing vary)
Key Responsibilities
Product Management:
Meeting with customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders to understand their needs
Making sure the team understands customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders’ needs
Refining and carding up work
Prioritizing work
Planning for future product initiatives
Tracking product metrics
Documenting and educating others on how features work
Owning the delivery of product commitments
People Management
Conducting 1:1s
Conducting yearly and new hire reviews
Interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and corrective action
Supporting career path growth
Giving and receiving feedback
Maintaining team culture
Engineering Management:
Owning incident response communication and follow up mitigation work
Managing on-call rotations
Working with the team to understand their technical priorities
Making sure balance of technical work and product work is correct
Owning the quality of what the team delivers
What Success Looks Like
Enabling the ShipperConnect team to be productive and happy at work
Focusing the ShipperConnect team on the most impactful work
Educating the rest of the company about product features and priorities
Staying on top of many incoming requests with timely and effective written communication
Noticing areas that could be improved and fixing them without being explicitly told
Cultural Qualities
Desire to help others
Personable, with a sense of humor
Excels in ambiguous, highly autonomous situations
Very organized at managing todos, and following up
Flexible and willing to experiment with new ways of doing things
Qualifications
3+ years of relevant product management experience
Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving abilities
Experience managing people, previous experience managing engineers is a major plus
Familiarity with EDI, integrations, APIs, or logistics tech strongly preferred
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, early-stage environment
Bitfreighter is a fast-growing freight tech company transforming how brokers and logistics providers manage integrations and EDI. We provide a modern, managed integration platform that eliminates operational headaches, accelerates onboarding, and drives efficiency across the supply chain. By combining two products required to operate a logistics company into one platform, we help our customers cut costs and increase revenue.
75% paid Health, dental, and vision benefits
Unlimited PTO
Summer Fridays - one Friday off each month during the summer
401k match
Monthly wellness reimbursement
100% remote
Flexible work environment
WHY BITFREIGHTER
Opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing company
2000% growth over 3 years
Clear product-market fit with strong customer demand