At ZeroNorth, we are at the forefront of transforming the shipping industry through digital innovation. Our solutions go beyond optimising business operations, they are designed to lead the industry in sustainability by significantly reducing CO2 emissions.
Our core mission of making global trade greener drives everything we do. Your contributions will play a crucial role in reducing emissions, aligning commercial success with sustainability, and delivering benefits for both profitability and the environment.
ZeroNorth is powered by a diverse team of 550+ professionals with more than 38 nationalities, operating out of global hubs including Copenhagen (our headquarters), Athens, Chennai, Mumbai, Singapore, Sofia, and Tokyo.
We are leading the industry's green transition, enabling our partners to leverage data for actionable decarbonisation efforts.
Product Manager - Vessel Configuration at ZeroNorth
Vessel Configuration is a newly formed team with a clear mandate: transform how vessels are connected to the ZeroNorth platform in an AI-first world. Creating a digital twin of a physical vessel is the prerequisite for everything else. Get it right and the entire platform delivers value from day one.
Reporting to the Director of Product, you will lead the product strategy and day-to-day execution for a newly formed, strategically important product area. From the moment a contract is signed through to ongoing configuration changes and eventual offboarding, you own the end-to-end lifecycle of how vessels are connected to the platform.
You'll work closely with a dedicated engineering team, design, and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the product areas that depend on accurate vessel configuration data. You will also collaborate with a set of platform and enabling teams covering sensor pipelines, fleet telemetry, and Naval Architecture, whose capabilities underpin your work.
This role is about more than onboarding vessels. It carries a bigger question: what should vessel lifecycle management look like in an AI-first world, where the process shifts from being operated by humans inside ZeroNorth to a semi-automated, self-service experience owned by the customer. You will have real ownership over the answer, leading the product discovery and delivery process from idea to launch, working directly with customers, collaborating with stakeholders, and staying focused on what moves the needle.
Key responsibilities:
The end-to-end vessel onboarding and offboarding experience, with a clear goal of reducing time to value significantly for customers and their fleet managers
Vessel particulars and configuration management, ensuring the platform always has an accurate, up-to-date profile for every connected vessel
Sensor data integration, working with engineering to automate how vessel sensor channels are mapped and validated on the platform
The interface between Vessel Configuration and dependent product areas, ensuring Vessel Reporting, Vessel Performance, and others can reliably access accurate vessel data
Roadmap execution, translating the product vision into a clear, sequenced plan and driving delivery against it.
Your profile:
3+ years in product management, ideally in a domain with technical or integration complexity, with a track record of owning operationally grounded product problems in a B2B SaaS environment
Discovery skills. You know how to get to the real problem, not the stated one, and you approach discovery with structure and curiosity rather than jumping straight to solutions
Data instincts. You define success measures before you build and track them after you ship. Data informs your decisions and keeps the team honest about what is actually working
User empathy. You build understanding of your users through regular, direct contact and a genuine ability to earn their trust. You ask good questions and ensure the team is solving the right problems the right way
Stakeholder management. You work effectively across commercial, customer success, and engineering, navigate competing priorities with clarity, and communicate your thinking clearly to senior audiences
Clear communicator, written and verbal. You write PRDs that engineering teams can act on and present your thinking in a way that drives decisions
AI-native working style. You use tools like Claude as a core part of how you work, to move faster, think more clearly, and do more with less
Comfortable owning products that serve both end users and platform consumers, with an awareness of what each needs
Good technical instincts. You are comfortable working through data modelling, integration design, and automation logic with an engineering team
Systems thinker. You look at a complex workflow and see the product hiding inside it. You understand that changes in this domain can have consequences elsewhere and sequence your work accordingly
Collaborative by nature. This role sits at the intersection of multiple product, platform, and enabling teams. You are energised by cross-functional, technically layered environments rather than intimidated by them, and you know how to keep things moving without owning everything
Maritime experience or education is a plus, but not a requirement. What we value is genuine curiosity about how vessels operate and a passion to transform a centuries-old industry
About ZeroNorth
At ZeroNorth, we aim to make global trade sustainable by steering the maritime industry toward zero emissions. Using advanced technology and trusted data, our platform delivers real-time insights to optimize operations and align commercial success with environmental impact.
We partner with customers on their journey toward sustainability, solving complex challenges and empowering informed decisions that benefit both the planet and their bottom line.
Our culture thrives on growth, inclusion, and collaboration. We value honesty, trust, and the unique contributions of every team member, driving meaningful change together.
Let's make global trade green.
