Truckstop · 5 days ago
VP of Product
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Responsibilities
Accountable for the product vision, roadmap, and execution through exceptional leadership, business acumen, customer advocacy, and coaching, both with the product team and throughout the organization
Own our product strategy, rooted in our vision, mission, and market opportunity, to deliver against business and growth objectives
Drive meaningful business outcomes for Truckstop by creating customer value across both carriers and brokers as well as shippers
Guide and prioritize the new product efforts based on multiple factors including a deep understanding of customer problems and needs, company strategy, competitive landscape, and technical feasibility
Bring rigor to product management by creating an environment focused on discovery and learning, ruthless prioritization, high-trust collaboration, and urgency in delivering against business outcomes
Gain and continually build a deeper understanding of current and prospective customers, both buyers and end users
Communicate the vision for the Product function internally, and how it makes us better overall, as well as within each function
Set ambitious goals and manage teams to deliver significant impact to our customers and our business
Establish and interpret KPIs to track product outcomes, determine experiment disposition, and predict and drive future performance
Recruit and grow top talent, aligned to the Truckstop core values
Foster a Product culture that promotes psychological safety and embraces continuous improvement, healthy conflict, and empowered teams
Demonstrates exceptional focus on details while adeptly navigating between a strategic outlook and a hands-on approach within a fast-paced environment
Assess new growth opportunities to expand within our customer base and to adjacent markets over the coming years through hypothesis-driven experimentation
Collaborate cross-functionally to connect the dots in our data and across various input sources to derive insights that will help us improve our product
Manage and measure the success of your products with detailed analysis on cost, pricing, and margin across our cloud offerings
Collaborate closely with Product Management leaders across the Enterprise to determine integration opportunities with Truckstop portfolio
Create and lead others for mockups, wireframes or POCs
Gather and incorporate product feedback into subsequent product releases
Continuously improve Truckstop’s product management team’s impact and productivity, building a culture of excellence
Be a product expert and domain expert, participate in conferences, and meetings with customers and partners
Put customers and users front and center, balancing qualitative and quantitative feedback from internal and external sources
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or equivalent work experience
10+ years of Product Management experience, with some of those in a marketplace business and/or a product-led SaaS business
5+ years’ progressive leadership experience
Experience leading product at a growth stage company
Strong track record of developing product leaders and fostering strong product teams
Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, engineering capabilities, and what makes successful Product/Engineering partnerships
Passion for product excellence and experience working in organizations with strong collaboration amongst Engineering, Product, Design, and Business functions
Preferred
Master’s Degree3+ years of experience as VP of Product or above
Logistics industry experience
Experience managing remote teams
A demonstrated track record of using qualitative and quantitative measures to prioritize a product roadmap that drives measurable business outcomes
2+ years of experience as VP of Product or above
Logistics industry experience
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Pendo, and Aha!
Experienced in leading Product at a B2B company with at least 100 employees
Company
Truckstop
Truckstop is a leader in transportation technology and freight matching solutions.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Bregal Sagemount
2019-04-04Acquired· by ICONIQ Growth
2016-04-05Private Equity· Undisclosed
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