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Associate Product Manager
About Vortexa
Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view of the global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and society as a whole.
The Challenge
Ingesting thousands of rich data points per second from multiple external and vastly different sources, moving terabytes of data while processing it in real-time, and running complex AI models that coupled their output with a hybrid human-machine refinement process—all while presenting results through a nimble, low-latency SaaS platform—demands groundbreaking science and engineering.
Successfully addressing the intricate questions posed by traders, analysts, charterers, hedge funds, and other global oil trade market participants relies on sophistication and effort. The mission becomes one of ensuring questions are asked and answered efficiently, prioritised for customer delight.
Vortexa delivers high-quality data and market predictions through intuitive analytics platforms—governed by AI-driven front-end applications, APIs, and SDKs. The Product Management team leads collaborative product discovery and delivery, aligning efforts with stakeholders to build products that are valuable, usable, technically feasible, and commercially viable.
Each project ensures clarity over vision, strategy, and roadmap—balancing scope against KPIs and market impact.
The Role
You’ll join Vortexa as a Product Manager, reporting to the Head of Product Strategy, with cross-functional interfaces across the organization.
You Will:
- Execute and refine the product roadmap for flows and onshore inventory products (covering crude and refined products), aligned with overarching product vision and strategy.
- Continuously identify and prioritise customer problems while refining product ideas, ensuring high-value focus areas impact the business objectives.
- Leverage AI tools to unify quantitative analytics, qualitative customer feedback, competitor insights, and industry trends—speeding the product lifecycle from ideation to rapid prototyping, development, and post-launch growth.
- Lead rapid product discovery and low-fidelity prototyping, gathering feedback with subject-matter experts, customers, and prospects to refine features.
- Own success metrics and KPIs, detecting wins and misses, and recommending optimisations or strategic pivots to enhance effectiveness.
- Define clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and priorities, collaborating with technical product managers and engineers to address obstacles promptly and shepherd products to release.
- Ensemble with design, engineering, product marketing, and customer success to streamline timely launches of products, features, and improvements.
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Requirements
To thrive at Vortexa, you’ll be:
- Early-career product manager (1-2 years) with hands-on experience in product discovery and delivery, specifically for B2B data and analytics.
- Adept at leveraging AI tools; open to experimenting with emerging technologies to optimise scalability and solutions effectiveness.
- Familiar (or highly curious) about energy commodities markets, with a proven ability to learn about complex trading or financial systems—whether through experience or external learning.
- A ruthless data-driven problem-solver, with a customer-first mind-set. You should:
- Challenge assumptions with evidence to define the most valuable problems worth solving.
- Measure success with data and advocate for data-driven outcomes.
- Resourceful and resource creating—experimenting quickly with analytical tools to prototype solutions, and segmenting feedback from stakeholders or customers during discovery cycles.
- Resolute about delivering market-leading, transformative products; tackling challenges head-on.
- Self-motivated with an open mindset—unafraid to action problem-solving while sharing knowledge and skills to remove blockers for the team.
- Versed in advanced product methodology frameworks, such as:
- SVPG (Sound Viewpoints) teachings
- North Star strategy
- Jobs to Be Done (JTBD)
- RICE model (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort)
- Kano Model (segmenting features by customer satisfaction)
- Lean GIST approaches for user empathy-building
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Soft Skills & Collaborative Ethos
- Strong cross-functional team player—driving consensus rather than imposing direction.
- Capable of illustrating ROI calculations while rigorously evaluating prioritisation trade-offs.
- Thrives in a flexible/hybrid model, enabling productivity whether in office or remote.
- Adapts to organisational agility—banking tech as a continuing growth frontier.
- Passionate about long-term impact and scalability over short-term output.
- Acts as an equity holder—balancing business intellect with a commitment to organisational goals.
Vortexa Culture:
- A genuine team—diverse leaders united by curiosity and shared purpose.
- Expectations for ownership—equity options reflect this ethos—and every employee’s responsibility.
- Inclusive mindset drives collaboration and continuous learning.
- Vitality Private Health Insurance included—as part of a holistic approach to wellbeing.
- Global volunteering initiatives for employee-driven community engagement.
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