Bobtail

Product Manager

• Lead product strategy, development, and innovation at Bobtail
• Decide what Bobtail builds and what it deliberately does not build
• Work directly with the CEO to turn strategic options into a sequenced, evidence-backed roadmap
• Develop and maintain product strategy connecting product investment to strategic and financial objectives
• Create a disciplined process for gathering and evaluating ideas
• Establish criteria for building, continuing, changing, or discontinuing initiatives
• Partner with engineering, design, go-to-market, and senior leadership to ship products on a predictable cadence
• Build and defend the revenue potential, development cost, and opportunity cost of roadmap bets to the CFO
• Ensure new products meet operational, financial, regulatory, and risk requirements before launch
• Measure product success based on business outcomes
• Own Bobtail's product across customer and platform experiences
• Conduct customer conversations, understand carrier operations, and analyze competitors and adjacent providers
• Use data, customer research, and experimentation to validate product bets
• Hire and develop Bobtail's product management function as the first dedicated product leader
• Track freight-tech and fintech infrastructure trends, including AI-driven disruption and industry consolidation

Director of Product