Product Manager

Your Job

KBX Technology Solutions, LLC is seeking a Product Manager who will represent both the internal and external customer to the product team. As a Product Manager, a key responsibility is the leadership of a particular domain product or group of domain and enabling products. In depth knowledge and understanding of existing platform, microservice, and product functionality along with future feature requests will be key in order to stay market. The Product Manager is responsible for the execution of the product roadmap, leading the KBX vision with the team and evangelizing it with key Stakeholders. This role will lead the product team to develop and deliver new and enhanced product features and use customer and user feedback to drive success and growth.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship

Our Team

This role will set the strategy for transportation software and lead an established Agile product team in execution of the roadmap and coordinating the roll out of the new and updated capabilities. This team uses an Agile methodology to drive results and create a software product that delivers compelling business outcomes and results to customers in the Transportation Management System domain. This team formulates high-quality user stories based on input from interactions with Product Managers, Product Owners, Software Developers, QA, Scrum Masters and UX professionals and customers.

What You Will Do

• Contribute through the leadership of the product team (BA, Tech Leads, Scrum Master, and Engineers) and in working with the Product Director to define a product roadmap and annual initiatives with the objective of accelerating the development of quality software.

• Work collaboratively with other Product Managers to ensure quality, AHA, and ADO standards are defined and followed and that impacts and influences across products are communicated and socialized.

• Use KBX/Koch research, market research, industry, and competitive analysis and environmental factors in determining where the team should focus their efforts.

• Gap analysis research of existing functionality versus KBX, Koch, and Commercial market demand driven functionality.

• Contribute to the prioritization of initiatives, blockers, and the product backlog to meet customer and KBX adoption and time to value.

• Leverage proven change management, continuous improvement, and mutual benefit practices to ensure adoption of delivered capabilities and measure success.

• Lead product management, development, and quality to ensure the on-time delivery of quality code and that the right customer outcome is solved.

• Lead the product team with integrity, confidence, humility, and empowerment.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working in the Transportation and or Logistics Industry

• Experience leading a team of Product or IT professionals.

• Experience managing multi-month software development projects involving multiple teams or workstreams.

• Experience setting strategy for a product or team by leading efforts supporting long-term goals and a roadmap focused on innovation and increasing market share.

• Experience understanding and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and communicating within all levels of an organization.

• Experience influencing cross-functional teams without formal authority, including development teams.

• Experience creating structure and processes in fast paced Agile environment.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience having direct reports and handing performance reviews, feedback, compensation suggestion and recruiting

• Experience supporting Finance or Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable divisions

For this role, we anticipate paying $115,000 - $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

The application window is anticipated to close on 15 days from June 15, 2024.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

KBX Logistics, a Koch company and global leader in transportation, offers world-class, technology-driven capabilities across all modes of managed freight and transportation asset management. KBX is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges shippers face, leveraging decades of firsthand experience and data-driven insights from a large, diverse, and global business network. By building mutually beneficial partnerships and innovative technology, KBX creates a competitive advantage for its customers and meets the growing need for cost effective and reliable supply chain solutions. For more information on KBX, visit www.kbx.com.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.