Pattern provides a proven blend of marketplace analytics, product distribution, MAP compliance, and brand management to drive ecommerce acceleration for premium brands. We thrive on high energy, professional excellence, and disciplined creativity.
Are you obsessed with data, partner success, taking action, and changing the game? If you have a whole lot of hustle and a touch of nerd, come work with Pattern! We want you to use your skills to push one of the fastest-growing companies headquartered in the US to the top of the list.
Pattern accelerates brands on global ecommerce marketplaces leveraging proprietary technology and AI. Utilizing more than 66 trillion data points, sophisticated machine learning and AI models, Pattern optimizes and automates all levers of ecommerce growth for global brands, including advertising, content management, logistics and fulfillment, pricing, forecasting and customer service. Hundreds of global brands depend on Pattern’s ecommerce acceleration platform every day to drive profitable revenue growth across 60+ global marketplaces—including Amazon, Walmart.com , Target.com , eBay, Tmall, TikTok Shop, JD, and Mercado Libre. To learn more, visit pattern.com or email [email protected] .
Pattern has been named one of the fastest growing tech companies headquartered in North America by Deloitte and one of best-led companies by Inc. We place employee experience at the center of our business model and have been recognized as one of Newsweek’s Global Most Loved Workplaces®.
As a Product Manager focusing on Transportation at Pattern, you will play a critical role in enhancing, optimizing, and automating logistics workflows into scalable software solutions. You will lead a dedicated engineering team through two-week sprints to build directed warehouse tools, manage yard operations, and optimize global inventory distribution. This role sits at the intersection of complex supply chain challenges and rapid technology expansion, driving massive cost savings and high-impact operational efficiency across our expanding global footprint.
What is a day in the life of a Product Manager - Transportation?
- Connect daily with the offshore engineering team (8:00 AM–9:00 AM MT) to facilitate standups and align on technical execution.
- Conduct sprint planning, define user stories/tasks, assign sprint points, and run retrospectives every two weeks.
- Partner closely with UX designers to design and refine directed internal tools for warehouse associates.
- Engage with internal stakeholders to identify logistics pain points, gather product requirements, and conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Analyze operational data to identify opportunities for optimizing freight execution, carrier ordering, and yard management processes.
- Deep dive independently into complex supply chain and transportation problem sets to define scalable solution architectures.
What will I need to thrive in this role?
- 2+ years of product management experience, preferably within logistics, transportation, warehousing, or supply chain environments.
- Proven experience leading software engineering teams through full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and two-week sprint cycles.
- Background working with major retailers, e-commerce giants (e.g., Amazon, Walmart), global logistics providers, or freight/trucking companies.
- Strong ability to work independently with minimal oversight, taking full ownership of problem spaces.
- Proficiency with analytical and product tools such as Snowflake, Excel, AI development assistants (e.g., Claude, Cursor), and the Google Workspace suite.
- Exceptional cross-functional communication skills to build trust and align distributed engineering, design, and executive stakeholders.
What does high performance look like?
- Successfully transition legacy spreadsheets and email workflows into automated, in-house software products.
- Execute two-week sprint deliverables on time while maintaining team alignment and sprint velocity.
- Build strong trust, cohesion, and a unified direction across cross-functional US and overseas engineering/design teams.
- Proactively solve complex operational problems and drive measurable financial impact through reduced shipping and chargeback costs.
What is my potential for career growth?
- Opportunity to lead greenfield product initiatives within a fast-growing tech business expanding 30–40% annually.
- Direct exposure to enterprise-level supply chain scaling, double-digit facility network expansion, and global logistics automation.
- Path to take complete ownership over multi-year product roadmaps across complex fulfillment and transportation verticals.
- Professional network development through collaboration with senior leadership and global operations experts.
What does success look like in the first 30, 60, 90 days?
- 30 Days: Build relationships across engineering and operational teams, gain a complete understanding of internal systems, and master the existing multi-year transportation product roadmap.
- 60 Days: Take active ownership of two-week sprint planning cycles, partner with UX to refine warehouse tool designs, and begin delivering early-phase project features.
- 90 Days: Independently lead the execution of primary transportation initiatives, deliver high-impact feature releases, and drive measurable efficiency in logistics workflows.
What is the team like?
This role reports directly to the Director of Product Management. You will be joining a team of growing technology and logistics professionals. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Lead Developers, Software Engineers, and UX Designers, as well as other departments including Warehouse Operations, Supply Chain, and Logistics. This position is mentored by the VP of Product / Director of Product Management.
Sounds great! What’s the company culture?
We Are Looking For Individuals Who Are
- Game Changers - A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.
- Data Fanatics - A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.
- Partner Obsessed - An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations, and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.
- Team of Doers - Someone who is a part of a team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.
What is the hiring process?
- Phone Interview
- Video Interview
- Top-Grading Interview / Panel Interview
- On-Site Visit / Final Interview
- Reference Checks
- Executive Review
- Offer
How can I stand out as an applicant?
Strong Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in global supply chain logistics, cross-border freight distribution, or yard management software.
- Prior background at high-scale e-commerce platforms (Amazon, Walmart) or global logistics providers (e.g., Flexport).
- Hands-on experience utilizing modern AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate product workflow and problem-solving.
Interview Standout Tips
- Demonstrate your ability to take an ambiguous problem space and break it down into structured software requirements.
- Highlight specific examples where you independently owned a product space with minimal daily oversight.
- Show a clear track record of successfully managing distributed offshore engineering and design teams across multiple time zones.
Why should I work at Pattern?
Benefits
Pattern offers big opportunities to make a difference in the ecommerce industry! We are a company full of talented people that evolves quickly and often. We set big goals, work tirelessly to achieve them, and we love our Pattern community. We also believe in having fun and balancing our lives, so we offer awesome benefits that include:
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid Holidays
- Onsite Fitness Center
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Casual Dress Code
- Competitive Pay
- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
- 401(k) match. Pattern matches 100% of the first 3% in eligible compensation deferred and 50% of the next 2% in eligible compensation deferred.
Pattern provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
