Technical Product Manager

Vortexa is a fast-growing global technology business founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view on the global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and society as a whole.

http://www.vortexa.com/

The Challenge:

Ingesting thousands of rich data points per second from multiple external vastly different data sources, moving terabytes of data while processing it in real-time, running complex and complicated prediction and forecasting AI models while coupling their output into a hybrid human-machine data refinement process and presenting the result through a nimble low-latency SaaS platform used by customers around the globe is no small feat of science and engineering.

As answering the most fundamental and intricate questions posed by traders, analysts, charterers, hedge funds and other global oil trade market participants involves an unprecedented amount of sophistication and effort, the job of ensuring that the right questions are asked and answered in the right order, to the utmost customer delight comes to the forefront.

Vortexa delivers top-notch high-quality data and market predictions through a frictionless analytics platform, consisting of intuitive front-end applications, an API and SDK. The Product Management department is responsible for leading collaborative product discovery and delivery to ensure the products we build are valuable and usable by customers, technically feasible and commercially viable. For each product, the team ensures alignment with stakeholders on the vision, strategy and roadmap, leading the company to focus its efforts on the right functionality at the right time with clarity over the scope and KPIs.

You will join our Product Management team as a key individual contributor reporting to the VP of Product, with multiple interfaces inside, and outside of R&D. Together with the wider Product Management and Design team, by having a detailed view and plan for the Vortexa product application estate both now and into the future, and a passion for delivering exceptional user and customer experience, you will work to ensure we continue to provide a market leading analytics platform and build an intelligent energy market.

You’ll Be:

• In partnership with product managers, VP ADT (Application Development Team) and pod leads, owning and driving day to day execution of the application delivery roadmap of our market leading products, ensuring clarity and alignment of product backlogs with product roadmap and making day-to-day decisions on the best ways to deliver customer value in line with product vision
• Tracking application metrics such as usage patterns & performance versus use cases to provide actionable prioritized recommendations for improvements to product managers and delivery teams
• Working closely with engineering to deliver detailed application feasibility assessments as part of discovery and planning, including working with design and product managers to rapidly prototype, test and define experiences which ensure readiness
• With the support of pod leads, owning the creation and prioritization of engineering delivery tasks for an initiative, including involvement in backlog refinement and sprint planning   
• Supporting pod leads in aligning application priorities within pods to product manager priorities, and also ensuring cross pod dependencies are acted on
• Owning the delivery of selected product initiatives which cross Data Production Team (DPT) and ADT pods, in partnership with product manager and relevant pod lead(s)
• Acting as an expert on all the Vortexa applications, such as GUI, APIs and Excel plug-ins to support other functions

Requirements

You Are:

• Experienced in working with complex, high-volume, high-speed data applications delivered to clients, including user interfaces and APIs
• Exhibiting a passion for details and possessing experience for ensuring Vortexa applications are meeting the needs of technically savvy customers (both internal and external) through the use of data.
• Highly collaborative and can assess and reconcile priorities of multiple requests from multiple stakeholders, using prioritization methodologies and considering interdependencies.
• Can move quickly in decision-making through taking measured bets to learn faster.
• Experienced with UX design thinking, rapid prototyping, application QA, and User acceptance testing principles.
• Capable and keen to learn about the industry you will be working in.
• Familiar with SVPG teachings, North Star, JTBD, RICE, Kano, GIST models, and other tools of the trade.
• Passionate about building market-leading and category-defining products, tackling genuinely transformative challenges hands-on, and taking full ownership of the customer journey.
• Data-driven with a customer focus. Customers, both internal and external, are at the heart of what you do, and you can identify the customer problems worth solving, explain your rationale with data and use it to measure success.

Benefits

• A vibrant, diverse company pushing ourselves and the technology to deliver beyond the cutting edge
• A team of motivated characters and top minds striving to be the best at what we do at all times
• Constantly learning and exploring new tools and technologies
• Acting as company owners (all Vortexa staff have equity options)– in a business-savvy and responsible way
• Motivated by being collaborative, working and achieving together
• A flexible working policy- accommodating both remote & home working, with regular staff events
• Private Health Insurance offered via Vitality to help you look after your physical health
• Global Volunteering Policy to help you ‘do good’ and feel better