Associate Product Manager

Position Available - Associate Product Manager

Job Purpose Summary

The Associate Product Manager is responsible for supporting product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle. This includes gathering and prioritizing customer and product requirements, defining the product vision, and collaborating with cross-functional teams—including engineering, sales, marketing, and support—to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are achieved. The role emphasizes leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and automation where appropriate to enhance product functionality, user experience, and operational efficiency. The Associate Product Manager ensures the product aligns with the company’s strategic goals and continuously evolves to meet customer needs in an AI-driven ecosystem.

Essential Job Duties/Requirements

  • Define, prioritize, and manage the product roadmap to align customer needs with the company’s vision and strategic goals.
  • Develop subject matter expertise in the product and industry over time.
  • Maintain a long-term product vision while guiding day-to-day efforts to achieve business objectives.
  • Partner with other product team members and scrum teams to deliver high-quality products on time and within scope.
  • Support product launches through pilot programs, early customer adoption, and cross-functional enablement with sales and operations teams.
  • Promote consistency and quality in product requirements and design by establishing and advocating for product management best practices.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, customers, and third-party vendors to define and validate business requirements.
  • Participate in translating business needs into functional requirements.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to explore and implement AI tools and frameworks across the product lifecycle—from prototyping and testing to deployment and optimization.

Job Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • Preferred 2 years’ experience as a Product Owner /BA for API integrations
  • Proven track record of defining and delivering successful products.
  • 1+ years of experience in a job in the shipping and logistics software market is preferred
  • Familiarity with the application of AI/ML in software products, including understanding model-driven features, automation, or analytics.
  • Experience working with AI tools during product development (e.g., for prototyping, user behavior analysis, content generation, or testing).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Technical background, with experience in SaaS cloud based solutions
  • Excellent teamwork skills
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
  • Examples of past successful product launches and outcomes are highly desirable.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills

  • Accuracy and Attention to Detail
  • Professional demeanor
  • Work effectively in a team setting
  • Work efficiently across distributed teams
  • Aptitude for learning new technologies and concepts
  • Proficient time management abilities
  • Manage multiple activities in parallel
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability to read and understand API documentation
  • Identify and resolve workflow inefficiencies
  • Communicate technical information to customer, vendor and various organizational units
  • Adapt to Agile Testing practices
  • In-depth knowledge of software testing principles, methodologies, automated testing
  • Proficiency with SQL, .NET & C#
  • Ability to facilitate root cause analysis for critical defects and/or system outages
  • Ability to handle multiple priorities and projects at once

Compensation

  • $60k-125K

About FreightPOP

FreightPOP is a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software, experiencing rapid growth with the support of venture funding. We believe in creating opportunities for our team members, combining accelerated experience with adaptive learning to pave the way for career success. Our shipping and logistics software is user-friendly, highly customizable, offering a rate shopping experience akin to Expedia, and seamlessly integrates with other software for a real-time, unified transportation management solution. Positioned for hyper-growth in a booming global market, FreightPOP is at the forefront of innovation.

We are an equal opportunity employer, seeking driven, entrepreneurial-minded individuals to join our purpose-driven company. At FreightPOP, our culture revolves around innovation, continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability, with a strong emphasis on autonomy and responsibility within our team. Join us as we revolutionize the future of logistics and transportation management.

FreightPOP's Core Values

  • Stay Grounded. Balance the 5 Fs–Faith, Family, Finance (work), Fitness, Fun
  • Dream Big. Shoot for the stars in every endeavor. 
  • Light it up. Strive to be a source of light for those around us.
  • Give Back. Make a difference in our communities.
  • Go the Extra Mile. There's no traffic jam on it.

Perks and Benefits

We encourage our team to have a positive work/home life balance. We know how to make our work environment enjoyable and rewarding. Here are some of the perks our team enjoys.

  • 401k – Available to all employees.

  • Remote Work – Hybrid and full remote options available.

  • Flex Vacation - Take the time you need to spend with family, friends and to recharge.

  • Hopes & Dreams – Employees are invited to meet regularly with a senior leader, one-on-one to map out a path to their personal goals and dreams while at FreightPOP. Hopes & Dreams are not necessarily related to FreightPOP but more importantly, to their personal hopes and dreams.

  • Bi-monthly lunch meetings – We hold lunch meetings with the CEO to communicate what was accomplished, recognize employees, company milestones, strategy, organizational changes, and to give employees an open forum to ask questions to our CEO and leadership team.

  • Give Back Days - Community service takes the focus off you and puts it on others. From that grounded perspective comes passion, passion for helping others. We created a culture that is passionate about serving others.

  • Career Development Program- HR and Executives team up and work with an employee for their career development. The program involves understanding what knowledge, skills, personal characteristics, and experience are required for an employee to progress in their career or through access to promotions and /or departmental transfers or external job searches.

  • Tuition Assistance – We understand the value of a good education and take pride in investing in our employees' professional & personal development.

  • Employee Shadow Program- Employees are given the opportunity to shadow another employee or outside mentor for professional and personal development opportunities. In addition, new employees get assigned a buddy, someone in a similar role but has been in it for a bit, who will help them get acquainted with the company, expectations, and be a go-to person for questions.

  • Stay Interviews- Bi-Annual interviews with current employees to check in and see how they are doing. Take them to lunch and ask what, if anything, would make them leave FreightPOP. This makes our employees feel heard and gives us insight into any issues the executive team might not be aware of.

  • Health Insurance & Wellness – More than just health insurance, the Wellness program provides employees with resources to improve employee health and well-being.

  • Recognition & Reward – Employees are recognized & rewarded by leadership and co-workers for their hard work and dedication. Based on merit, not tenure.

  • Employee Referral- We offer $500 for employee referrals.

  • Employee Miles Stones- Employees are awarded a gift for 3,5 & 10 years of service.

  • Monthly Happy Hours – Join in for food, drinks, and good times with co-workers on two Friday's each month.
 

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