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Product manager

Based in
Shanghai
Type
Full-time

We build one product: an AI COO for cross-border commerce. Three business lines run on it. The feature sets differ; we do not build three products.

Working out requirements and turning them into design needs someone whose whole job it is. An engineer facing a requirement naturally slides towards "how do I build this", while this role has to hold on to "what are we actually solving" — two different modes of thought, and steadier when two roles carry them.

All three lines route through you.

What you will do

  • Bring the requirements of three business lines together and judge which are the same thing and which must stay apart
  • Own the whole path alone, from working out the requirement through to a design someone can build from
  • Talk to users directly. A requirement is not filed in a document waiting to be collected; it is asked for
  • Make the trade-off between what a line wants and what the product should be — and own that trade-off

What we look for

  • You can run the whole path alone. Producing the designs yourself is best; if you cannot, you have to be able to drive a contract designer to a buildable one — "I describe, you draw" is a way of working, and getting it to buildable is on you
  • Fluency with tools like Claude Code. A requirement, not a bonus point
  • You learn fast. Cross-border commerce runs deep; what we care about is how quickly you can interrogate an unfamiliar domain into clarity
  • You like talking to people. You will be sent into customers' offices to ask
  • You can give reasons for what we will not build. Three lines cannot all be served; choosing is the main work of this job

How to apply

Send your CV to the address below with the role in the subject line. Include one piece of real work you did with AI — what the job was, how you organised it, what it saved. That paragraph tells us more than the CV does.

hello@theglobaloptima.com