Product Engineer Procurement

Container xChange • Hamburg, NY

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Container xChange is building the distribution channel for global container trading. We operate in a huge, fragmented and still highly inefficient market. Our ambition is to make it dramatically easier to access the right inventory, compare opportunities, transact and fulfil container purchases across sellers and locations globally. To win, we need to get a few things exceptionally right: more of the right containers, in the right locations, at better prices — from sellers who are fast, reliable and easy to trade with. That is where you come in.

Requirements

• Combines commercial intuition, strong execution and a product/automation mindset.
• Genuine satisfaction from negotiating a better deal and spotting commercial opportunities others might miss.
• Passion for trading, pricing and markets — whether that comes from work, the stock market, sports betting or simply how you think.
• Commercially confident enough to own seller relationships, make decisions independently and push back when needed.
• Perform well under pressure and at speed — matching the pace of Sales without sacrificing accuracy.
• Highly structured and operationally reliable: fast without becoming sloppy.
• Enjoy getting your hands dirty and executing the work yourself.
• Think beyond individual cases and naturally ask how a process can be improved at a system level.
• Can balance short-term execution with long-term improvement — improving processes, automation and scalability over time.
• Data-driven and comfortable using metrics to identify opportunities.
• Already use AI to solve real-world problems and are excited about building prototypes, workflows and automations.
• Can translate a business problem into something Engineering can work with.
• Strong ownership, drive and the learning velocity to grow further into product and automation.
• Do not need to be a software engineer. Ability to understand a problem deeply, imagine a better solution, prototype where possible and collaborate effectively with Engineers.
• Fast judgment under uncertainty.
• Enjoy working in a high-pressure, fast-moving commercial environment where Procurement needs to match the pace of Sales.
• Ability to switch between what needs to happen now, what needs to change commercially, and what needs to improve in the process or product.
• Prefer clearly bounded responsibilities over end-to-end ownership — we expect you to take decisions, push back on sellers when needed, and stay accountable until the issue is actually resolved.

Nice To Haves

• Deep container knowledge
• Traditional Procurement experience

Responsibilities

• Own and run day-to-day Procurement and tactical Seller Management, using what you learn from operating the processes yourself to continuously improve, streamline and automate the function.
• Improve our buying economics and Seller Performance by identifying pricing opportunities, negotiating with sellers, driving promotions and improving listing quality, reply speed, release speed and reliability.
• Use Claude and other tools as part of your day-to-day work to solve problems faster and improve our processes and systems.
• Build lightweight, bootstrapped solutions yourself when they can solve an immediate problem — from deterministic workflows to agentic solutions.
• Work closely with Engineering when those solutions need to become more robust, scalable or part of our core product.
• Build a more systematic, data-driven view of Procurement, so we can identify and prioritize the biggest opportunities across our seller portfolio.
• Drive larger strategic initiatives such as gatebuy, future pickups and new ways of sourcing inventory that help us build a structurally better trading engine.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed