Product Manager

Cardata

20d•CA$155,000 - CA$165,000•Remote

About The Position

Cardata is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead a small, self-contained innovation group focused on building product experiences that will provide a competitive edge. This role involves shaping a unified experience for drivers and administrators, guiding concepts from ambiguous opportunities to validated proof of concepts. It's an entrepreneurial role focused on identifying valuable problems, forming hypotheses, defining minimal viable experiences for testing, and iterating rapidly based on customer feedback. The principle is to build to learn first, then build to scale. Once a concept is validated, the role includes assessing scaling requirements, building investment cases, and preparing for handoff to the core product and engineering team. This position is ideal for someone with strong customer instincts, commercial judgment, technical fluency, and a bias for action, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and adapting to new evidence.

Requirements

7–9 years of Product Management experience, including meaningful work in B2B SaaS startups or similarly fast-moving environments
A track record of turning ambiguous customer or market problems into working prototypes and validated product opportunities
Experience leading rapid discovery and iteration cycles directly with customers
Experience building multi-persona products with connected workflows
Strong product judgment: you can identify the riskiest assumption, reduce scope without losing the learning objective, and recognize when evidence is strong enough to proceed
Enough UX fluency to shape coherent workflows and give developers clear direction without depending on a dedicated designer for every iteration
Strong commercial instincts and the ability to connect product decisions to differentiation, revenue, retention, cost, or strategic value
Strong technical fluency, including APIs, data models, system boundaries, integrations, security, and architectural trade-offs
Comfort working day-to-day with developers, making decisions quickly, and adjusting priorities as new evidence emerges
Excellent facilitation and communication skills with customers, developers, executives, and cross-functional partners
High ownership, low ego, and the discipline to abandon or change an idea when the evidence does not support it

Nice To Haves

Experience operating as an early-stage or founding Product Manager
Experience with mobile and web products that work together as one customer journey
Experience with B2BB2C product experiences
Experience in regulated, compliance-heavy, logistics, mobility, or transportation-related industries
Experience taking a validated concept through production hardening, scale, and handoff to a larger product and engineering organization

Responsibilities

Turn company strategy, market insight, and customer problems into focused product bets with clear hypotheses
Define the customer, problem, value proposition, assumptions, and evidence needed to validate each opportunity
Work with developers to shape the smallest end-to-end driver-and-admin experience that can test the idea, often within one to two weeks
Create clear user flows, lightweight requirements, and decision-ready context without slowing the group down with unnecessary process
Recruit and engage customers and the market validation group, lead prototype sessions, and separate useful evidence from individual feature requests
Translate feedback and observed behaviour into rapid V2, V3, and V4 iterations
Make decisive trade-offs across customer value, commercial potential, scope, speed, usability, and technical risk
Keep the team aligned on what it is trying to learn, what has changed, and what comes next
Define success measures and recommend whether to stop, pivot, continue iterating, or invest further
Once a concept is validated, partner with technical leaders to determine what is needed to harden and scale it
Build the business and product case for graduation and prepare the strategy, evidence, requirements, and context for a clean handoff to the core product and engineering team