Product Manager, Business Aviation SaaS

Help build technology that powers business aviation!

Portside is a venture capital backed company headquartered in San Francisco. We provide modern operational and financial software for the global business aviation industry, currently used by operators of 2,000+ business and government aircraft in 25+ countries.

• We help aircraft operators:
  • aggregate aircraft data from multiple systems in a single data warehouse
  • save thousands of hours every month by automating common business processes, e.g., aircraft owner billing statement (invoice) preparation
  • improve profitability and enhance decision-making by introducing fleet-wide analytics and reporting
• We help aircraft owners:
  • gain access to their aircraft’s data, e.g., plane and crew schedules, financials, upcoming maintenance, subscriptions, budgets, and documents
  • perform self-service, e.g., by requesting flights and approving charter requests
• Unique opportunity
  • In 2021, in addition to our core platform, we are working in partnership with some of the leading private jet operators in the world on several new strategic initiatives
  • You will work closely with co-founders and customers to both execute on the new initiatives and enhance our existing platform, with short development cycles and immediate customer impact
  • Help us grow into the leading financial & analytics platform for business aviation
• Stability
  • We are both well-funded and profitable
  • Led by a seasoned executive team. Harvard Business School and Berkeley graduates. Founded a Y Combinator company before (GetGoing, acquired in 2016). Grew a business to $1B in annual sales. Developed one of Time Magazine’s “50 Best Websites”.

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We are looking for a product manager to help us develop strategic new software modules and critical customer-requested enhancements. Our product and engineering team is currently ~20 strong (and growing). We use a modern technology stack, including:

• Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Back-end: Python, Django, PostgreSQL
• Front-end: JavaScript, React, Typescript
• Devops: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Monitoring: Kibana, Sentry, LogRocket, Pagerduty, Prometheus, Grafana
• Custom reporting: Jaspersoft Studio
• Communication & design: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Figma

What you will do

• Establish strong professional relationships with co-founders, product team, customers, designers and engineers to collaboratively build and then own significant parts of our growing product portfolio
• Connect technical and business worlds
• Break down complex problems into manageable parts ready for development
• Understand customer pain points and own and oversee development through the entire life cycle of designing, prototyping, developing, testing, shipping & supporting a solution

Who you are

• You are a true “roll up your sleeves, take responsibility and get code shipped” product owner. You know how to hustle to get things done. You are most likely coming from a startup, where you had sole responsibility for building and shipping a complex product; you may have co-founded a software startup before or were the first / sole product manager.
• You are very analytical. You like solving complex puzzles.
• You like working with data and have managed complex API integrations in the past.
• You are great with writing specs and technical documentation.
• You are an excellent communicator, and can explain complex concepts in simple terms.
• Last but not least, you are self-driven, well organized, curious, and tenacious. You ask a lot of questions, dig deep, and come up with creative solutions. You execute reliably and with a great sense of ownership and accountability.
• Interest in or passion for aviation are a big plus!

What we offer

• a high-impact job with a unique opportunity to wear many hats, quick professional growth and lots of learning opportunities
• competitive compensation
• ability to work remotely anywhere in the European time zone
• no corporate bureaucracy
• holidays, 20 working days of vacation, and paid sick days