Lead Product Manager

<meta><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">About the role</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Shipium is looking for a </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Lead Product Manager</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> to own our </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Product Discovery portfolio</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">—encompassing Delivery Promise, Shipment Planning, and Fulfillment Engine. This is a high-leverage, senior individual contributor role designed for a leader who operates at the founder/executive level on strategy but possesses the technical "craft" to dive into the codebase, design tools, and data warehouse.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In this role, leverage comes from your depth of domain authority and tooling, not headcount. You will be the bridge between visionary strategy and technical reality, ensuring our roadmap is defensible, differentiated, and relentlessly focused on customer value.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What you'll do</strong></b></p><h4 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0px;margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strategic Vision & Product Authority</strong></b></h4><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Portfolio Ownership:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Own the 1–3 year vision for multiple product lines, ensuring they connect into a coherent platform narrative.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Defensible Roadmapping:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Maintain a structured roadmap that serves as a source of truth—integrated with Jira and financial realities (ARR/NRR)—rather than just a slide deck.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Ruthless Prioritization:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Identify and de-prioritize non-differentiated work. Steer the team away from "anti-patterns" like unbenchmarked performance claims or generic AI features.</span></li></ul><h4 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0px;margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hands-on Discovery & Prototyping</strong></b></h4><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Prototype-Led Validation:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Hedge product judgment by building interactive prototypes. Ensure design decisions transfer cleanly to engineering by maintaining mappings to production codebases.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Data Fluency:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Query </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Amazon Redshift</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> and </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">S3</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> directly. We expect you to generate your own first-cut insights without depending on analytics partners for initial answers.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Persona Discipline:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Maintain explicit personas for every product line and insist on persona alignment in every design and roadmap review.</span></li></ul><h4 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0px;margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical Partnership & GTM Support</strong></b></h4><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">GTM Synergy:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Act as the first "product call" for Solutions Engineering on complex technical questions. Partner with Sales on high-stakes discovery calls and technical credibility moments.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Escalation Mastery:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Partner with Customer Success on technical escalations. Investigate logs, APIs, and data to produce customer-facing deliverables that close the loop on issues.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Systematization:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Turn one-off integration work into repeatable workflows, including data validators, runbooks, and intake checklists.</span></li></ul><h4 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0px;margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Influence & Mentorship</strong></b></h4><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Executive Presence:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Present trade-offs and strategies to founders and the board, framing decisions through both customer impact and financial multiples.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Uplift the Team:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Mentor junior PMs and foster "product-thinking" across engineering teams through reusable frameworks and high-quality written artifacts (strategy memos, decision docs).</span></li></ul><hr><h3 style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.6;font-size:15pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin-top:14px;margin-bottom:4px;padding-left:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:15pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">AI-Native Workflow</strong></b></h3><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We expect our Lead PMs to view AI as a core piece of modern infrastructure. You should demonstrate the ability to use </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Claude</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> or equivalent tools as a daily working surface to:</span></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Build reusable agents, skills, or prompt patterns.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Automate multi-step research and documentation pipelines.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Integrate internal data and tools into AI workflows (e.g., MCP-based integrations).</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Scale individual leverage rather than replacing human judgment.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Qualifications</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The "Full Stack" PM:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> You are equally comfortable in a design tool, a SQL editor, and a board meeting.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Proven track record in B2B SaaS, preferably in API-first products with technical-buyer audiences.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Domain Depth:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> High "depth of craft" in logistics, supply chain, or complex distributed systems.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Communication:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> A preference for high-quality written documentation over unnecessary meetings.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Technical Chops:</strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> Proficiency in SQL and the ability to navigate logs and APIs to solve problems.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">At Shipium, Employees enjoy full medical, dental & vision coverage (with 65% coverage for dependents), optional life insurance and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan, fully remote work-from-home options in 28* states, 8 paid weeks of parental leave, paid holidays annually, self-managed vacation time, sick & safety leave, and volunteer time off. </span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Shipium is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. 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 characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please email Human Resources (</span><u><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap;">hr@shipium.com</span></u><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">) and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">This applies to </span><i><em style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">all</em></i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and mentorships. Shipium makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">*Although based out of Seattle, WA, Shipium is 100% remote in the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington & Wisconsin. </span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Salary range 180-190k</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,0);font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Shipium participates in e-verify</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.25pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p>

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