Product Manager

About Signal Ocean: Signal Ocean is the technology arm of the Signal Group. Our primary product, The Signal Ocean Platform, helps shipping and commodities professionals navigate their complex decision making. Driven by advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence, our technology suite provides tailored, exclusive insights that support our clients in achieving performance and efficiency. By securely handling and combining private and public shipping data flows, and applying advanced analytics, insights are delivered over web and mobile applications, as well as through a rich set of APIs and SDKs. Our backend architecture is abstracted to modularly offer deep analytics capabilities that are leveraged in the solutions that we offer or can be directly embedded in our client’s system topologies.

About the role: We are looking for a self-driven, inquisitive, fast-learning individual with a passion for technology, data, and product management to join our team in London as a Product Manager. Providing the best user experience to our customers is centrally placed in Signal’s mission.The main scope of the team is to develop new features and functionality within The Signal Ocean Platform, our core SaaS product offering, while in parallel continuously improve the overall User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) of the platform.The Product Manager will develop shipping knowledge plus specific knowledge across business and technical domains and understand the system’s data, pipelines and platform’s functionality in depth. The candidate is also expected to have a bigger overview of the team and company objectives, people supervision, together with ownership over deliverables and deadlines as derived from the Product Roadmap. 

At Signal, we are committed to finding people who are respectful, inclusive, and team players, embodying these values in every role

What you will do in this role:

• Progressively but quickly earn a deep understanding of a complex, large scale solution and the underlying business issues it serves through hands-on product and data work.
• Participate in the development and execution of product roadmaps, working closely with product managers, engineers, designers and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to the collection and management of product requirements and feedback, from external or internal sources. 
• Collaborate with the engineering and design team to reflect product requirements to well defined user stories, ready for development from our engineering team.
• Ensure successful product delivery by working closely with the engineering team. Raise blocked issues and facilitate the communication between product teams.
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) of new features developed.
• Participate in discovery and design sessions, contributing ideas for the product, following up on decisions made with all stakeholders and keeping detailed relevant documentation.
• Collaborate with the marketing team to develop product messaging and in-application campaigns for newly developed product features.
• Assist in monitoring product usage analytics and produce relevant reports for internal use.
• Participate in product demos, user interviews and address product questions.

Requirements

What you bring to the team:

• Bachelor’s or/and Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field.
• 2-3 years of working experience as a business analyst and 3 years of experience as a Product Manager/Owner
• Working experience with agile methodologies (Kanban or Scrum), ideally with hands-on experience in JIRA and Confluence.
• Very good technical data skills, including hands-on experience in SQL. Experience with Python, R or PowerBI is also welcome.
• Working experience on B2B SaaS Client facing products/features with strong knack for UI/Front End product development
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and willingness to work in and help the team.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English (company’s working language).

Benefits

What we offer:

• Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
• Coverage under the company’s collective health insurance plan.
• Opportunity to work alongside experienced people with deep knowledge in software engineering, data science & shipping business who are always eager to mentor.
• Signal’s hybrid remote work policy currently includes 6 working days at premises per month, during which happy hour events take place
• 2-4 weeks of onboarding training to prepare you for your new role, having the opportunity to meet about 30 trainers while diving deep into our products and/or the shipping world.
• Career growth opportunities and a structured development discussion every 4 months.
• Personal learning budget for training, seminars, conferences (750 to 2000 EUR annually depending on seniority).
• Regular team bonding events and activities.

Strict adherence to Confidentiality, Intellectual Property and Non-Compete provisions is expected.

All applications will be considered under the terms and conditions of confidentiality in accordance with the regulations of personal data protection.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. At Signal, we believe that diversity of opinions, approaches and viewpoints is key to our innovation and success and we encourage that with our hiring, development and rewards practices. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristics by law and take actions to eliminate those from our workplace.