Product Manager Intern

OVRSEA is a next-generation multimodal freight forwarder committed to simplifying & optimizing international freight management through technology. OVRSEA provides its clients with industry expertise and high end-to-end visibility to meet their needs on sea, air, road and rail over all transport stages, from loading to customs declarations.

Founded in 2017, OVRSEA currently supports +700 clients from its offices in Paris, New York, Barcelona, Milano and will double its workforce by the end of 2022.

OVRSEA is a next-generation multimodal freight forwarder committed to simplifying & optimizing international freight management through technology. OVRSEA provides its clients with industry expertise and high end-to-end visibility to meet their needs on sea, air, road and rail over all transport stages, from loading to customs declarations.

Founded in 2017, OVRSEA currently supports +700 clients from its offices in Paris, New York, Barcelona, Milano and will double its workforce by the end of 2022.

The Product Team :

Our Product team is the armed wing of OVRSEA's vision : our tools will revolutionize international freight transport ! Our Product Managers are discoverers of solutions in a market that is not very digitalized. They provide our customers with new solutions for transport management. They also enable our Operations teams to be the most efficient on the market.

The team's challenges in 2023 :

- Build new products to better address our larger clients (stock vision, Net Zero Initiative, customs management, supplier interface, etc.) and explore new value streams (automatic document reading, etc.)

- Open international offices and adapt our internal products

- But also, at the level of our organization: annual strategy, ProductOps, DesignOps structuring... and many others !

Job description :

As a Product Manager intern, you will be trained on Product’s best practices with a top-notch team, from user research to monitoring impact, writing crystal-clear specs and working hand in hand with our amazing Tech-team.

Product Managers are autonomous at OVRSEA and are involved at all levels: they are operational on their entire perimeter, but they also bring a strategic vision for the quarterly roadmaps.

After a few months with us, not only will you reach this level but also lead team-wide projects.

Reporting to the Product team, managed by Georges, our CPO, you will work closely with Martin, Clara, Nader, Donatella, Léa and Jérémie on :

- Our 2 products : Hermes for our external customers and Atlas our internal product, with their respective specificities and challenges.

- Product Operations hand in hand with Georges and Martin

Our Product organization is a product for us : we contribute to improve it every month with a retrospective and a training session organized by a PM.

Finally, we have the privilege of building a product in a market that is complex and not very digitalized. We are therefore pioneers and the challenge is extremely interesting !

Here are the missions you will be leading with us  :

Product Ops (60%) :

- Brainstorm & work closely with Georges our CPO & Martin our lead PM whilst leading team-wide projects that will challenge & reshape our org

- Lead cross-team challenges. To name recent projects lead by Pierre-Antoine, our current PM intern :

- Revamping the internal knowledge management @ OVRSEA

- Interviewing prospects and implementing with the tech team a new translation system

- Interact with numerous stakeholders on your projects and thus develop deep management skills

Product Management (30%) : 

Discover the PM job & integrate a squad with a seasoned PM :

Discover :

- Discover and prioritize the hottest issues through frequent user interviews (user research, demo participation, customer calls)

- Identify behaviors, trends and blocking points through data analysis (Heap, Metabase)

- Monitor updates in the industry / in our competitors and updates in product practices

Deliver :

- Write specs for new features and model them

- Work with Engineers & Designers to build the best product solutions

- Monitor our impact and features’ performance to improve them (or remove them if needed)

- Inform our users about new products and spread the product culture at OVRSEA !

Strategy (10%) : 

- Feed back the various insights gathered (user interviews, fieldwork, data, competitive intelligence, etc.) to feed the Product Strategy

- Participate in prioritization meetings for the next quarters' projects

- Pushing for ideas to improve our processes

🎁 What will you find at Ovrsea ?

- The opportunity to join one of the French Tech companies 🐓 in hyper-growth, to participate in an incredible human adventure and in the international transport revolution

- The opportunity to work independently on various projects in collaboration with other teams and with a high degree of responsibility

- A team of talented people who all share a strong team identity: analytical spirit, quality of execution and willingness to learn

- Horizontal management and a high degree of initiative

- A unique working environment at the foot of Montmartre! 🕌

- 50% of the cost of your transport ticket is covered

- Swile card (5,5 euros paid by Ovrsea for your meals)

- Regular events (afterworks, team lunch, culture sharing, ...)

Still not convinced ? 🤔

You can consult our Notion’s presentation page to discover our history, our products, our teams, our commitments and the many benefits we offer to our employees !

To know more about the Product team, check out Our dedicated Notion ⚗️

We also offer you a short video to familiarize you with our culture and to learn more about Ovrsea's #1 value : Pedagogy.

This value translates into : The implementation of webinars, PIC and PEC (our internal and external cultural presentations), a culture of writing via Notion, an onboarding promoting a complete immersion in the world of international transport, ... and more !

You are planning to join us ? Don't hesitate anymore and apply to join the crazy Ovrsea adventure ! ✈️

🔎 Who are we looking for ?

Recruitment Process :

At Ovrsea, we are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment process and fostering diversity within our teams