About the position
As a Parcel Product Manager at Uber Freight, you will play a pivotal role in driving the growth and success of our parcel shipping services. You will be responsible for defining a compelling product vision and strategy, planning deliverables, and leading the development and launch of cutting-edge parcel shipping solutions. This role demands a deep understanding of the parcel shipping industry and the ability to drive innovation, profitability, and customer satisfaction. This role requires exceptional communication skills to convey plans, insights, data, and results to internal teams, executives, and external partners. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including sales, software engineering, industry SMEs, marketing, operations, and finance, to ensure the successful execution of our product roadmap with industry-best offerings. You will be thought leader bringing the voice of the customer to product innovation.
Responsibilities
- Define a clear product vision and strategy for the team, identifying both short-term and long-term initiatives to create an effective product roadmap.
- Translate user needs into product requirements by deeply understanding user problems, formulating hypotheses, and articulating desired outcomes.
- Effectively communicate product plans, tradeoffs, and results to a diverse audience, including internal partner teams, executives, end-users, and external customers.
- Launch experiments to test changes and analyze results, making data-driven decisions and tradeoffs to drive product launch decisions.
- Lead the development, launch, and adoption of innovative features and experiences that integrate Uber Freight's TMS Parcel solution seamlessly.
- Partner with various teams within Uber Freight, adapting their features and plans to accommodate planning use cases and parcel shipping needs.
- Collaborate with a world-class team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and user researchers, setting clear team deliverables, defining the roadmap, and driving execution.
- Build and nurture a strong team culture centered around collaboration, execution, and delivering results.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in supply chain, logistics or related field or equivalent professional experience.
- 4+ years of work experience with Product or Operations or Project Management experience in the logistics or retail industry.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage deadlines, and adapt to changing circumstances.
- Be able to identify Parcel product vision and communicate that to all levels of the business.
- Experience partnering with internal and external stakeholders to define vision and deliver the product on time.
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of experience and knowledge of parcel shipping in E-commence or Retail or Transportation industry.
- 3+ years of experience in Parcel Shipping Solutions or Last Mile Solutions.
- Knowledge and experience with data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI.
- Expertise in Agile methodologies and experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
- Stellar design instincts and product taste with ability to translate complex customer insights and market trends into actionable product strategies.
- Deep understanding of product lifecycle management, from ideation to execution and iteration.
- A high level of business acumen and communications skills to communicate effectively externally and internally, with all levels of employees within any size company.
- High standards across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you work on.
Benefits
- Company sponsored health plan.
- Dental and vision benefits.
- 401k match.
- Financial and mental wellness benefits.
- Parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Life insurance.
- Performance or sales incentive bonus program.
- Participation in Uber Freight equity awards.
