Product Manager, Professional Services
About the Role
The transportation industry has no shortage of complex problems requiring creative solutions to scale efficiently. In this role, you will help solve those problems by managing the strategy and delivery of a piece of Mastery's Transportation Management System (TMS).
Our Professional Services team is an arm within Mastery’s Product Management department focused on supporting our client implementations through discovery and identifying end to end solutions, collaborating with client engineering teams and being an advocate of our product vision.
In this role, you will use strong analytical sense to evaluate ideas and dissect problems. You must be able to think strategically about your audience and their business needs, understanding what it takes to initiate the product lifecycle, communicate expectations, and provide support throughout the software implementation process.
Responsibilities
- Manage the strategy and delivery of Mastery's proprietary Transportation Management System, MasterMind.
- Work collaboratively with customers and internal stakeholders, primarily through the discovery & solution phase of the customer relationship.
- Support Customers as needed to translate strategy into product requirements.
- Define and document complex business and technology processes to drive product solutioning
- Drive issue resolution by identifying problems, resource constraints, and escalation points as needed.
- Work with engineering team(s) to manage development of product features based on customer requirements
- Develop an understanding of Mastery's users and act as an advocate for their needs
- Design and implement business rules, strategies, and workflows into MasterMind; actively monitor and maintain effectiveness of designs.
- Maintain current documentation on the underlying workflows, rules and processes within the business system.
- Educate and guide new and existing clients on best practices, onboard new clients and proactively address and suggest areas for improvement.
- Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
- Create a “trusted solution advisor” relationship with our customer’s business and technical teammates
- Deliver solutions that allow the business segments to achieve operational excellence.
- Represent the business and contribute to the achievement of association goals and objectives through strategic projects.
- Manage the solution related business initiatives and departmental requests.
Requirements
- Practical experience in software product management
- Experienced with customer engagement in a customer facing role
- Experience successfully delivering a product to end users
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Possess a big picture mind set in combination with the ability to always think beyond a single project or business domain
- Experience documenting complex workflows and visualizations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Compassion and empathy
Preferred
- Transportation and/or supply chain industry experience
- Understanding of SaaS models and the technology layers required to support web applications
About Mastery
Mastery Logistics Systems is building the world’s first lovable Transportation Management System, or TMS.
Our customers – large transportation companies and shippers who need those companies – have struggled with systems that are outdated or inadequate. As shippers or transportation service providers, our customers have in the past been forced to use multiple systems to manage dedicated fleet operations, outsourced or insourced trans management, one way trucking, truckload brokerage, LTL, and Intermodal, or to sub-optimize one or more of those functions by attempting to fit it into a TMS that is adequate at another function.
Mastermind TMS allows our customers to bring all of these functions into a single platform, providing flexibility, visibility, control, and efficiency. Today’s unprecedented global supply chain upheavals underscore how important the transportation industry is. We are building a system to allow this industry to work faster, smarter and more efficiently.
The challenges in this industry are big and exciting! We are tackling everything from fast and efficient data input to ingesting large amounts of data and applying AI to looking at blockchain to securely digitize paperwork. If you are passionate about humanizing an industry, automating in innovative ways, building for quality and scale, helping make people's lives easier and touching every part of our economy then this is the place for you.
Logistics Systems is committed to continuing to build an incredible company. We are a masterful mosaic of incredible people. We are specialists and experienced in our respective fields. We are dedicated to continuous improvement both professionally and personally. We are a collective group of really good people. We have different interests, backgrounds & talents and we work together to create really cool stuff! We believe in diversity of thought and are mindful and inclusive. We have deep respect for each other and work diligently at adding the right people to our teams.
At this moment we are all working from home and doing our part to combat the Covid 19 virus. We are creatively building our new work habits. We are respectful of each other’s time and personal life. We have flexible schedules but share in the mission that we are building and need to get it done. We offer an excellent suite of benefits. We are dedicated to finding new ways to add perks as we live and work from home.
Our team has the domain knowledge and connections to make an impact, and we’re looking for experienced and thoughtful people to who thrive on creating and building great products. We want people who have a true passion for servicing and taking care of our customers. We need people who are flexible problem solvers, thrive on collaboration and consistently know how to communicate their solutions well. We are small and nimble – which is evident in how quickly we could pivot to our new reality. Each member of the team can make a tremendous impact both technically and culturally. While a start-up, we are well-funded, have an initial paying customer with which to test and launch, and are founded by top experts and veterans in the logistics industry.
Join us – you’ll love it – let’s build a masterpiece!
Benefits
Mastery takes great pride in providing our employees a robust and highly competitive benefit package. Our benefits include Medical, Dental and Vision insurance covering 90% of premium costs. Company paid life insurance for 1x salary. Legal, AD&D, Additional Life and other employee assistance benefits. We have a 401k savings plan with a 4% match. We provide opportunities for professional growth and development. We fully support our work from home initiative as we do our part to combat the Covid 19 crisis. We have a manage your life and schedule Paid Time Off program. We are fully devoted to finding creative perks and benefits since we cannot currently enjoy our cool office culture. Our philanthropic partner is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek a diverse community of professionals. Veterans, Women, non-binary, people of color, LGBTQIA, we welcome all to apply!