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Senior Product Manager - Platform Products
Shippo, United States
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Oct 27, 2021
Last Date
Nov 27, 2021
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Job Description
Before you read on, take a look around you. Chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. E-commerce and parcel shipping volumes are exploding but so are customer expectations about shipping speed and cost. Managing shipping and logistics operations to meet increasingly exacting demands is an extremely hard endeavor, especially for SMBs who can be left in the dust by larger and far more sophisticated competitors. But this does not have to be so.
At Shippo, our goal is to level the playing field by providing businesses with access to shipping tools and terms that would not be available to them otherwise. We lower the barriers to shipping for businesses around the world, and move shipping from a pain point to a competitive advantage.
Through Shippo, e-commerce businesses, from fast-growing brands to mom-and-pop shops are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard, and seamlessly run every aspect of their shipping operations, from checkout shipping options to returns.
Join us to build the foundations of something hard yet meaningful, roll up your sleeves, and get important work done everyday. Founded in 2013, and funded by top-tier investors likeD1 Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, Uncork Capital, VersionOne Ventures, FundersClub, we are a fast-growing and proudly distributed Unicorn with hubs in San Francisco and Austin. We are also featured in Wealthfront’s Career Launching List and Forbes’ Cloud 100 list of fast growing startups.
We are working on a generational opportunity to create the shipping and fulfillment layer for e-commerce, transforming this industry in a similar way to how Stripe has revolutionized payments, and Twilio has communications. A critical part of that is Shippo building products that enables our shipping and fulfilment services and functionality to be consumed by all businesses who ship in our ecosystem, including hundreds to thousands of store platforms (e.g., Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, etc.) and warehouse operators, and millions of e-commerce merchants. Shippo’s API products and developer experience are at the heart of making this vision a reality.
As the PM for our developer experience team, you’ll lead the strategy and execution of a cross-functional team, delivering high value API improvements and integrations, while also setting and educating on API standards internally across the product and engineering organization. This person will also have an important external role in developer advocacy, helping developers and partners see the value of our solution. Given how horizontal, broad, and strategic this role is, the ability to evangelize and influence will be a key factor in this person’s success. Responsibilities - Understand the complex needs of our platform partners and distill down to the essential components to become a market leader for various shipping interfaces.
- Determine the overall strategy and investment areas to drive platform adoption
- Experience creating embedded experiences within other platforms and other white-label solutions
- Understand the requirements of our various product teams and their customers, ensuring our developer platform supports their needs
- Develop strategic integrations where necessary to ensure Shippo is working with leading e-commerce platforms and carriers
- Collaborate with go-to-market teams to position Shippo’s API, and partnering to develop relevant assets where needed
- Evangelize externally through communication with partners, carriers, and customers, and presentation at relevant industry events to ensure Shippo’s API is seen as a modern, market-leading API for our industry
Requirements- 5+ years of product management at a technology company
- Experience working on platform products within SaaS providers
- Experience working on developer products, API products, and platforms
- Experience working across all phases of the SDLC and understand both the excitement and challenges that developers face at each phase
- Proven experience working cross-functionally and leading through influence, not necessarily through authority
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for a variety audiences with a wide range of skill levels and technical backgrounds
- Experience shipping products in a fast moving environment with a heavy dose of ambiguity.A belief in the power of platforms. You are motivated by making other people suc
Job Specification
Shippo
Information Technology and Services - San Jose, United States