Shipping & IOR/EOR flows: Build landed-cost (duties/taxes) and HS-code assist, DDP/DAP selection, document packs, digital PoA, and customs compliance checks.
Integrations: Lead carrier/aggregator, customs broker, IOR/EOR provider, payments/FX, sanctions screening, and e-commerce plugins (Shopify/Woo) integrations.
Data & experiments: Define event schema, instrument funnels, run weekly experiments (pricing, activation, UX), and publish dashboards.
Pricing & unit economics: Model contribution margin per shipment and merchant; run A/B pricing tests; optimize GP/shipment and attach rate of IOR/EOR.
GTM & partnerships: Coordinate merchant pilots, referrals, partner co-marketing, and provider scorecards; support sales enablement and onboarding.
Ops & reliability: Define SLAs, exception playbooks (holds/returns/claims), security & audit trails, and incident response with engineering.
Governance: Drive weekly product council and monthly “board-style” reviews; communicate decisions, risks, and progress.
Success KPIs: North Star GP per Active Merchant; quote→shipment conversion, IOR/EOR attach rate, GM per shipment, customs clearance success %, exception resolution time, time-to-first-shipment, M1/M3 retention, cohort GP, experiment velocity ≥4 meaningful tests/month.
Requirements
30 days: Complete discovery; agree KPIs; publish MVP PRD & analytics spec; line up pilot merchants & providers for 1–2 corridors.
60 days: Deliver core quoting/booking + IOR/EOR attach; run first pricing/UX experiments; start pilot and report conversion/GM.
90 days: Harden ops/SLA, automate key docs/labels, ship merchant plugin v1, and launch publicly with a quarterly roadmap.
6–10+ years in Product Management; at least 3+ years in logistics, marketplaces, fintech, or compliance-heavy platforms.
Hands-on with cross-border/e-commerce shipping, Incoterms (DDP/DAP), HS codes, and ideally IOR/EORmodels.
Strong API/platform integration chops (carrier/broker/payment/tax/identity); comfortable with Postman, reading API docs, and sequencing integrations.
Data-driven: funnel analytics, cohort/retention, margin modeling; working knowledge of SQL or a BI tool (Amplitude/Mixpanel/GA4/Looker).
Excellent PRD writing, stakeholder management, and agile delivery; can turn ambiguity into crisp, testable bets.
Bonus: experience with Shopify/WooCommerce apps, sanctions/KYC/KYB flows, MENA/EU lanes, Arabic a plus.