Graduate Product Manager

About Us:  

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 on 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 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 an individual contributor, and reporting to the Head of Product Strategy, with multiple interfaces outside of R&D. Together with the wider Product Management and Design team you will work to ensure we continue to provide a market leading analytics platform and build an intelligent energy market.  

You will:  

• Execute and refine the product roadmap for flows and onshore inventory products (crude and refined products), aligned with the product vision and strategy  

• Continuously identify and prioritise customer problems and product ideas, enduring Vortexa’s product efforts focus on high-value areas that make significant impact on the business objectives.   

• Use AI tools to combine quantitative platform analytics with qualitative customer feedback across channels and competitor insights on a regular cadence to identify signals and implement the product lifecycle faster and better, from ideation, rapid prototyping/product discovery through build and post-launch growth.  

• Implement rapid product discovery and prototype tests, including gathering feedback and validation from subject matter experts, customers and prospects.  

• Be responsible for tracking the defined success metrics and KPIs, identifying hits and misses and recommending options to optimise the outcomes or pivot.   

• Own the details including defining clear requirements on user stories, acceptance criteria, priorities, and working closely with technical product manager and engineers to promptly address questions, resolve issues and remove blockers to build and release.    

• Collaborate with technical product managers, design, engineering, product marketing and customer success teams to ensure timely and effective delivery and go to market of new products, features and improvements.  

You Are:  

• Ambitious and eager to develop your product management career in a fast-growing scale-up, with passion for product discovery and delivery in a B2B data and analytics company 

• Ideally someone with experience (including internships) working in a product management team who has made a demonstrable impact in a short time. 

• Adept at utilising AI tools and experimenting with new tools and use cases to enable faster and better product outcomes.  

• Aware of energy commodities markets or similar trading or financial markets with proven learning track record.  

• Data-driven with a customer focus. Customers are at the heart of what you do, and you can identify and validate the customer problems worth solving, explain your rationale with data and use it to measure success.  

• Resourceful and creative with tools to build and iterate data prototypes quickly, collaborating with go-to-market stakeholders to directly engage target customers and run rapid product discovery with target customers.  

• Passionate about building market-leading and category-defining products, tackling genuinely transformative challenges hands-on.  

• Always learning with a self-driven “can-do” attitude. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and learn new skills to unblock a team. “I’ve done my bit” has no place at Vortexa.  

• A strong communicator effective in collaborating across teams to get things done and achieve outcomes.  

• Able to use guided ROI calculations and apply analytical rigour to prioritisation recommendations. 

• Curious about the applications of Silicon Valley Product Group teachings, North Star, Jobs to be Done, RICE models and other evolving tools of the trade. 

• Enjoy flexible hybrid working – split your time between home and our office, with the freedom to work where you’re most productive.
• 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
• 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