Location: Oslo (NO), Hamburg (DE), remote within NO/DE and remote UK.

ABOUT US

Xeneta has been touted one of the hottest companies in the Nordics, as well as one of the leading technology companies transforming the shipping, logistics and supply chain industries by Forbes. Our mission is to become the global reference point for ocean and air freight pricing. We are backed by leading global investors and since our launch in 2012, we have grown to become the world's leading ocean and air freight rate benchmarking and market analytics platform.

We are helping leading global companies like Unilever, Electrolux, Continental, Brother International, L’Oréal, Volvo, Nestle, thyssenKrupp and Puma, to name a few, improve their strategic freight procurement and positively impact their bottom line.
Headquartered in Oslo, with offices in Hamburg and New York, and employees from over 30 different countries, we are a truly international company. Having been named a 'Gartner Cool Vendor' in 2018, and one of the hottest tech scale-ups in Norway by TheNextWeb in 2019, we are excited to continue to grow across the world.

To support our mission, we are looking for an innovative and customer-obsessed VP of Product to establish and evangelize a shared product vision and roadmap across the company. The Product leader will be responsible for leading our product and design teams to develop and accelerate our product strategy.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that will significantly reshape the entire ocean and air freight procurement profession.

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define, own and passionately promote the detailed portfolio product roadmap internally and externally.

• Define, realize and optimize release planning, feature delivery and team engagement metrics.

• Partner with engineering to make swift and smart decisions, move fast, and deliver value for customers.

• Launch new product features and functions with a highly detailed and thoughtful approach with product marketing and customer success.

• Engage with customers during pre-sales and post-sales implementations to ensure the product will help them reach their desired business outcomes.

• Define and execute winning collaboration models with other internal teams and partners to deliver an excellent customer experience.

• Champion the product: Actively participate in industry events, customer briefings, analyst briefings, and advisory boards.

• Manage and grow an existing team of Product Managers and Designers while being a driver for positivity, growth, collaboration and fun.

 

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• An experienced enterprise B2B SaaS product manager capable of creating, defining and delivering product roadmaps.

◦ Prior experience creating products in new categories is ideal.
◦ Prior experience developing data analytics products

• Someone obsessed with UX and UI that relentlessly pushes for improvements in our platform – to drive adoption and retention.

• Acute project management skills, highly structured and a quick thinker to move swiftly from one task to the next without losing sight of time management.

• A people manager capable of recruiting, retaining and developing a strong product focused team.

• A proficient communicator comfortable of entertaining both sales and technical conversations at all levels, from the operational to the strategic.

• Experience with bringing new products to market and retiring old products.

• An innovator capable of finding new solutions to new problems.

• A bar raiser: you inspire others to bring their 'A' game and are continually looking for improvement opportunities. You don't settle and accept, "because that is the way we've always done it."

• Fluent in English

  

WHAT WE OFFER

• A great work environment with highly motivated people

• Competitive benefits including equity, along with a generous vacation plan, flexible working hours and educational opportunities.

• An opportunity to be a part of building and growing a global company that is transforming the shipping and logistics industries

 

WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT HERE

• Our Impact: We’re category leaders digitalizing the way ocean and air freight is procured bringing on-demand actionable data to all industry stakeholders. We’re moving fast.

• Our Technology: Deep data analytics and integrations coupled with a scalable, sleek and beautiful user interface.

• Our Customers: Big companies like Nestle, Electrolux, ABB, John Deere, Unilever, Puma and many others.

• Our Team: Shipping, consulting and tech all-stars on our roster

• Our Values: We are one. Variety and fairness. Transparency builds trust. Modernization through data.

  

Apply here and we'll be in touch! 

Make sure to highlight your past achievements that you think are relevant. Be sure to give us an idea of who you are as a real live person—not just your professional experience. 

Looking forward to hearing from you!

 

About Xeneta

At Xeneta, our goal is to become the global reference point for the ocean and air freight. Since our launch in 2012, we have led the data transformation of the freight industry by providing our customers with market intelligence and freight rate benchmarking through our SaaS platform.

Our data comprises over 200 million freight container datapoints and covers over 160,000 global trade routes. We focus on bringing transparency to the container shipping market, thus enabling our customers to make the best decisions when procuring freight and establishing supply chains. We have amazing customers including big brands like Unilever, Electrolux, Continental, Puma, Nestle and ThyssenKrupp.

Headquartered in Oslo, with offices in Hamburg and New York, and employees from over 30 different countries, we are a truly international company. Having been named Norway's 'Startup of the Year' in 2016, a 'Gartner Cool Vendor' in 2018, and one of the hottest tech scale-ups in Norway by TheNextWeb in 2019, we are excited to continue to grow across the world.

What will you be doing

As part of our Technology team, you will help us improve and polish our internal and external products, and ensure reliable deliveries. You will collaborate with the Tech and Product teams in planning, product testing, and the release process. As a Test Automation Engineer, you will develop and support test automation cases. Manual testing of new features is also part of the job.

Who you are

A person with over 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance of Web projects. You are curious and inquisitive, with interest in web technologies and the ability to analyze and explain complex problems. You care about quality, enjoy learning, and improving yourself and the team around you.

Requirements

• Experience in test automation with Python or other programming languages
• Experience in manual and exploratory testing
• Strong troubleshooting skills, understanding of OS/browsers dependencies
• Experience in Agile/Scrum development processes
• Fluent in English, oral and written

If you are not already authorized to work in Norway, a Bachelor or a Master in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience in API testing
• Experience in functional test plan development
• Relevant higher education

What we offer

• A great work environment with highly motivated people
• Competitive benefits, along with a generous vacation plan, flexible working hours and educational opportunities
• An opportunity to be a part of building a global company that is transforming an industry

Xeneta has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are innovative, funny, and curious and love to learn and be better every single day. Our key aim is to put the customer first and deliver memorable experiences to our audience and our employees. Collaboration is the name of the game. We are one. If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply HERE and we'll be in touch!

Make sure to highlight your past achievements that you think are relevant. Be sure to give us an idea of who you are as a real live person—not just your professional experience.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

 

About Xeneta

At Xeneta, our goal is to become the global reference point for the ocean and air freight. Since our launch in 2012, we have led the data transformation of the freight industry by providing our customers with market intelligence and freight rate benchmarking through our SaaS platform.

Our data comprises over 200 million freight container datapoints and covers over 160,000 global trade routes. We focus on bringing transparency to the container shipping market, thus enabling our customers to make the best decisions when procuring freight and establishing supply chains. We have amazing customers including big brands like Unilever, Electrolux, Continental, Puma, Nestle and ThyssenKrupp.

Headquartered in Oslo, with offices in Hamburg and New York, and employees from over 30 different countries, we are a truly international company. Having been named Norway's 'Startup of the Year' in 2016, a 'Gartner Cool Vendor' in 2018, and one of the hottest tech scale-ups in Norway by TheNextWeb in 2019, we are excited to continue to grow across the world.

 

What we are looking for

A technical writer capable of documenting both user interfaces and development processes. If you’re passionate about writing for a worldwide audience and coming up with solutions for educating users from countless different backgrounds, you could be a great fit for our team.

 

What will you do

•  Work with the product/UX team to deliver clear, concise, and empathetic UI text and documentation
•  Develop and maintain consistent standards for internal and external terminology
•  Work with the development and data teams to document internal procedures
•  Actively maintain our knowledge base and provide easy to understand instructions/information
•  Create high quality and engaging onboarding content for our users
•  Observe and conduct research. Learn about our users and determine how best to connect with them through our product

 

Requirements

•  Native-level fluency in English
•  Familiarity with the software development lifecycle
•  Previous experience documenting technical subject matter such as APIs and similar dev docs
•  Familiarity with the concepts of what makes great UI text
•  Capacity of learning and explaining complex procedures with clarity
•  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline(or equal relevant experience if already authorized to work in Norway)

 

Not sure whether you are the perfect fit? Give it a try regardless - we love to hear from interesting people, especially the ones who are excited to experiment at work and be autonomous! Be sure to give us an idea of who you are as a person — Not just your professional experience.

 

Nice to have

•  Familiarity with the basics of one or more programming languages
•  At least basic working knowledge of HTML/CSS
•  Past experience maintaining a documentation repository or creating onboarding experiences
•  Knowledge of UX best practices and what makes a “good” user experience

 

What we offer

•  An opportunity to take part in standardizing a completely new approach to the shipping industry and face challenges that are typically not common within most content roles
•  A great work environment with highly motivated people
•  Opportunity to grow into a leadership role in all content-related areas within our product and operations, as well as becoming the authority on terminology, processes, and user education
•  A chance to be a part of the Technology department, split into small, agile teams
•  Competitive benefits, including a generous vacation plan and educational opportunities
•  Flexible working hours and ability to work remotely when needed
•  Career progression and personal growth
•  An opportunity to work with a diverse and talented group of people who are currently redefining a multimillion-dollar industry

 

Xeneta has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are innovative, funny, and curious and love to learn and be better every single day. Our key aim is to put the customer first and deliver memorable experiences to our audience and our employees. Collaboration is the name of the game. We are one. If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you.

 

Apply HERE and we'll be in touch!

 

Make sure to highlight your past achievements that you think are relevant. Be sure to give us an idea of who you are as a real live person—not just your professional experience.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

About Xeneta

 

Our company has been touted one of the hottest new companies in the Nordics, as well as one of the leading European companies transforming the shipping and global logistics supply chain industries by Forbes.  

Xeneta is changing the business of the $200B container-shipping industry and has since its launch in 2012 grown to become the world's leading information platform for ocean freight intelligence. With our international background from logistics, technology and business we have managed to develop a solution to the challenges traditionally related to trade in the containerized shipping industry.

 

We are always looking for top software developers, sales and marketing professionals, data scientists, UX designers and anyone else who has what it takes to join our journey and impact the shipping industry. We know very well the meaning of "work-life balance", flexibility and the importance of continuous learning. We treat Xenetians like adults and in return expect everyone to act like it.

 

What we offer

• A young, motivated team and a great working environment.

• Competitive benefits (Salary, vacation, flexible working hours etc.)

• An opportunity to be a part of building a global company that is transforming an industry

 

Apply here and we'll be in touch!

 

Make sure to highlight your past achievements that you think are relevant. Be sure to give us an idea of who you are as a real live person—not just your professional experience.

 

 

Looking forward to hearing from you!