About the Role
As a Product Manager, you will contribute to driving product growth by assisting in key initiatives across the product lifecycle from early-stage discovery to post-launch follow-up. In this role, you will support the team and work closely with product, engineering, analytics, customer success, and go-to-market teams. Your focus will be on coordinating execution, facilitating collaboration, and enabling the delivery of outcomes defined by senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Own
These are tasks the PM is expected to fully own and lead:
Ideation & Opportunity Backlog
- Own the maintenance of the opportunity backlog: gather, document, and refine problem statements.
- Collect customer problems from support tickets, sales calls, feedback, and analytics tools.
Planning & Roadmap Execution
- Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and task board updates (e.g. Jira).
Development Support
- Track delivery progress and unblock by resolving issues and clarifying scope.
- Monitor sprint velocity, burndown charts, and surface blockers early.
Testing & QA Coordination
- Triage bugs and ensure high-priority issues are resolved pre-launch.
- Monitor regression risks and maintain test case traceability.
Post-Launch & Optimization
- Analyze funnel performance and identify improvement areas.
- Conduct follow-up research via interviews and surveys to collect user feedback.
- Run retrospectives and feed insights into future roadmap planning.
Collaborate
These are tasks where the PM collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders:
Market Research & Validation
- Collaborate with the research team to support user segmentation and hypothesis framing (with analyst / UX Researcher).
Planning & Roadmap Execution
- Write clear, concise user stories and acceptance criteria in collaboration with analyst / Engineering.
Prototyping & Usability Testing
- Collaborate with UX designers to develop interactive prototypes and user flows using tools like Figma.
- Support usability testing sessions alongside UX or Analysts by gathering insights and contributing to backlog improvements based on user feedback.
Prototyping & Usability Testing
- Collaborate with engineering to clarify user stories and reduce delivery ambiguity (with Engineering / analyst).
Testing & QA Coordination
- Define QA scope and coordinate test execution in partnership with QA / PM.
Launch & GTM Metrics
- Collaborate with analyst and GTM teams to monitor early signals and anomalies (with Analytics / PMM).
- Ensure documentation and training support is passed to internal stakeholders (with Support / Sales Enablement / PMM).
Support
These are tasks where the PM contributes to or assists other leads:
Ideation & Opportunity Backlog
- Support prioritization of problem spaces based on business impact and urgency.
Market Research & Validation
- Assist in conducting quantitative research such as surveys, funnel analysis, and benchmarks (led by Analytics / UX Researcher).
- Contribute to competitor research by mapping features and market gaps
Planning & Roadmap Execution
- Support sprint rituals and cross-functional communication (led by team and EM).
Development Support
- Participate in code review discussions with the team as a non-technical observer (led by Engineering).
Requirements
Who You Are
- 2–5 years of experience in a product, project coordination, or user research role (SaaS or digital products preferred).
- Comfortable working across teams including design, engineering, and sales.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage documentation and execution rigorously.
- Familiar with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Figma, Miro, and product analytics platforms.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly proactive, curious, and outcome oriented.
Benefits
What You’ll Gain
- Exposure to strategic, monetization, and commercial product development.
- Mentorship from experienced product and growth leaders.
- The opportunity to see the full product lifecycle, from discovery to revenue impact.
- The chance to make a measurable impact on business and customer KPIs.
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What We Do
Marcura is the company behind eight of the leading solutions and brands streamlining processes in the maritime industry. Our solutions include DA-Desk, PortLog, MarTrust, ShipServ, Marcura Compliance and Marcura Claims.
For over 20 years, we’ve been developing platforms that have been digitally transforming the industry. We work closely with our global customers and partners to develop solutions to everyday industry challenges, and together raise standards along the way.
Founded in 2001 on the principles of independence and transparency, we are headquartered in Dubai. Today, we have over 800 customers, making over $14bn of payments on behalf of customers every year, and employ nearly 1,000 team members across the globe – all committed to supporting the front-line of the maritime industry.
United in our vision to support maritime professionals in being the best at what they do, Marcura is pioneering new ways to transform compliance, transparency and efficiency in shipping. Building value through standardisation, data-driven decision making and integration of new technologies, Marcura is driving the era of digitisation across the seas.
