The Role
The Director of Product at sennder will define and execute the product strategy, leveraging generative AI, leading product lines, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to solve problems for shippers and carriers.
Summary Generated by Built In
sennder is Europe's Leading Digital Freight Forwarder. In a traditional industry, we're moving fast and focusing on the digitalization and automation of road logistics. By leveraging our proprietary technology, we're building an ecosystem that is leading the industry into the 21st century.
WHAT YOU WILL DO …
As Director of Product, you will define and execute the strategy for sennder’s core freight forwarding products, leading efforts to solve high-impact, real-world problems for shippers, carriers, and internal users. Reporting to the VP of Product - Digital Freight, you will shape a product vision that drives scalable, intuitive, and impactful solutions through data-driven insights, customer focus, and emerging technologies like generative AI. In this high-impact leadership role, you will oversee multiple product lines while transforming the Product function into an elite, outcome-focused organization. In this role you will..
- Own and deliver a product strategy and roadmap, delivering measurable business results by solving the most critical problems for shippers and carriers.
- Champion the use of generative AI to amplify creativity, rethink workflows, and scale decision-making in ways that differentiate sennder from competition
- Foster a culture of outcomes-focused execution, where success is measured by customer and business impact—not feature delivery.
- Enable rapid iteration and experimentation to validate ideas, optimize solutions, and adapt initiatives based on learnings.
- Minimize interdependencies to streamline execution and improve efficiency across
- Elevate team capabilities by addressing skills gaps, defining growth paths, and hiring top talent.
- Partner with executive leadership to align product initiatives with business goals, ensuring transparency and shared accountability.
- Foster seamless collaboration across Product, Engineering, Design, and Data teams, emphasizing co-creation and respect for domain expertise.
- Put user needs first, solving real-world problems for both shippers and carriers to deliver measurable business and operational value
- Validate solutions through data, experimentation, and direct customer feedback, ensuring every product decision creates meaningful impact
- Define success metrics (KPIs) and use insights to drive product decisions, measure performance, and deliver continuous improvements that create lasting value
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR …
- 10+ years of Product Management experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership roles at technology-driven companies of similar complexity and scale.
- A successful track record of success in high-growth, fast-paced environments where ambiguity and urgency are constants
- Experience in freight forwarding, logistics, or transportation tech is highly preferred. Background in B2B SaaS, (enterprise) marketplaces, or platform businesses are also valuable.
- Demonstrated ability to scale and elevate teams by hiring and mentoring top talent while fostering a performance-driven, collaborative culture
- Proven success in building outcomes-driven organizations with clear accountability and measurable impact.
- Expertise in using data, experimentation, and customer insights to guide product decisions and optimize outcomes
- Familiarity with A/B testing, KPI definition, and metrics-driven product management practices
- Familiarity with the latest trends in generative AI and the ability to integrate innovative, scalable AI solutions into products
- Deep understanding of modern product development methodologies, including Agile, experimentation frameworks, and roadmap prioritization
WHY CHOOSE sennder…
We believe in empowering our people to grow beyond their limits, embrace challenges, and create solutions that drive our collective success. Our culture thrives on entrepreneurial spirit, resilience, and collaboration.
Dynamic Scale-Up sennder is at a pivotal stage – transitioning from a scale-up to a sustainably growing company. This means we move fast and constantly push ourselves to improve. Joining us means being part of an ambitious, international team of talented individuals who value teamwork as much as bold thinking. Face-to-face connections across our offices remain central – it's not uncommon to travel to our offices across Europe to collaborate as we tackle challenges and celebrate wins, together.
Put Your Stamp on the Industry We operate in a complex and ever-changing industry where your ideas and efforts have tangible, transformative impact. This is your chance to be hands-on in creating sustainable, meaningful solutions that help businesses thrive.
Employee Well-Being We make mental wellbeing and engagement a priority through initiatives like our sennCare program, a partnership with nilo (global wellbeing platform), and regular satisfaction surveys via Culture Amp. And most importantly, work alongside people who truly care about you as a person. There is something special about the people at sennder that goes beyond just ‘work’.
Your Growth, Rewarded We believe in rewarding our team for their commitment and contributions to our long-term success. Our compensation package may include performance bonuses, referral rewards, or equity that align with our goal of building a thriving company together. We're excited to grow with you!
Vibrant Workspaces Our offices are equipped with healthy snacks, focus zones, and social areas to keep you energized and connected. When you walk into a sennder office, you immediately feel the sennder spirit: our shared culture paired with each location’s own unique character. Highlights include a slide in our Wroclaw office and a sunny rooftop terrace in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Milan! We also enjoy coming together regularly, from monthly aperitivos to spontaneous team moments.
We celebrate diversity and value your character just as much as your skills. If you don’t meet every requirement, don’t worry, we still encourage you to take a chance and apply. Bring your authentic self and help us shape the future of logistics in Europe.
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Top Skills
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The Company
What We Do
sennder – Europe’s #1 digital freight-forwarder platform for Full Truck Loads. sennder is a leading digital road freight forwarder in continental Europe, linking large commercial shippers with small freight carriers. With its in-house-developed platform, sennder provides a new level of automation, transparency and efficiency to the European €300 billion road freight market, which until now has been dependent on paper, phone and fax and characterized by multi-layer subcontracting. sennder’s digital connection to over 40,000 trucks allows for almost unlimited capacities, no matter what time of the day. sennder digitalizes the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers and logistics management solutions to shippers. Real-time booking, a designated contact person always on hand, as well as precise live tracking, bring full transparency to any logistics supply chain. By integrating directly with the shippers’ Transport Management and Freight Management Systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middle men, sennder increases efficiency and reduces cost for all stakeholders
