About Kpler

At Kpler, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex markets with ease. By simplifying global trade information and providing valuable insights, we empower organisations to make informed decisions in commodities, energy, and maritime sectors.

Since our founding in 2014, we have focused on delivering top-tier intelligence through user-friendly platforms. Our team of over 850 experts from 69 countries works tirelessly to transform intricate data into actionable strategies, ensuring our clients stay ahead in a dynamic market landscape. Join us to leverage cutting-edge innovation for impactful results and experience unparalleled support on your journey to success.

About the Role

As Product Owner, Automotive Intelligence, you will own how Kpler’s Automotive Intelligence product works, sitting within the Automotive Sector Squad and working closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Market Intelligence teams.

You will translate sector strategyand validated customer needs into a clear, prioritised product roadmapand backlog, coordinating delivery across engineering, analysts, and the Sector Lead. Your focus will be on turning Kpler’s data foundation into a native automotive intelligence workspace that delivers actionable insightsand enables customers to make better decisions.

The product will span key areas including trade flowsand lane capacity, schedule reliability, fleet supplyand renewal, charter ratesand asset values, portsand terminals, fueland emissions, CII,and bunkering. This is an exciting opportunity to help build a new product vertical within Kpler, shaping both the customer experienceand the way our data is transformed into intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Automotive Intelligence product roadmapand backlog, translating sector strategyand validated customer needs into well-defined epics, user stories,and acceptance criteria across the product’s seven intelligence modules.
• Prioritise product initiatives by balancing customer value, commercial impact, technical effort, data readiness,and delivery constraints, ensuring the team focuses on the highest-impact opportunities.
• Partner closely with the Sector Lead, Data Engineers,and Automotive Analyst to translate market intelligence, customer discovery,and business requirements into scalable product capabilities.
• Coordinate delivery across engineeringand data teams, ensuring the roadmap accounts for technical dependencies across Kpler’s AIS, ownership, emissions,and other underlying data sources.
• Defineand shape the automotive workspace experience, ensuring it integrates naturally within Kpler’s platform, surfaces the most important executive KPIs,and delivers actionable insights rather than simply presenting data.

• Own the product delivery cadence, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, release coordination,and stakeholder communication, ensuring the Q4 2026 launchand subsequent roadmap remain on track.

• Conduct customer discoveryand continuously incorporate customerand market feedback into product requirements, prioritisation,and roadmap decisions.

• Defineand track product success metrics, measuring adoption, engagement, customer outcomes,and commercial performance against ARRand logo targets.

• Maintain a healthyand predictable backlog, ensuring clear requirements, effective refinement, delivery visibility,and strong collaboration between Product, Engineering, Data,and commercial teams.

• Uphold strong Productand Engineering standards for quality, documentation,and ways of working as the Automotive Intelligence squad scales.

Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of Product Owner or Product Management experience, ideally delivering B2B data, analytics, or SaaS products within a cross-functional Agile environment.

• Strong track record of translating strategyand customer needs into a prioritised roadmap, well-defined backlog,and clear product requirements, with a focus on delivering against deadlines.

• Experience working with data-heavy productsand technical teams, with the ability to understand data sources, pipelines, technical dependencies,and their implications for product development.

• Strong experience in customer discovery, with the ability to translate customer insightsand market feedback into actionable product requirementsand roadmap decisions.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Product, Engineering, Data,and customer-facing teams.

• Strong understanding of Agile product ownership, including backlog management, user story writing, acceptance criteria, sprint planning, release coordination,and roadmap planning.

• Strong dataand analytical literacy, with the ability to interpret data, define meaningful product metrics,and measure outcomesand product adoption.

• Familiarity with productand delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, roadmap management,and product analytics platforms.

• Excellent communicationand collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate clearly across different disciplinesand levels of seniority.

• A decisiveand structured approach to prioritisation, with the confidence to make trade-offs, say no when required,and clearly communicate the rationale behind product decisions.

• An ownership mindset, comfortable operating with ambiguityand working at pace in a newand evolving product area.

Nice to Have

• Experience or knowledge of maritime, shipping, logistics, automotive, commodities, or trade intelligence.
• Familiarity with AIS, vessel tracking, freight/charter markets, emissions, or portand terminal operations.
• Experience launching new products or modules within an existing platform.

Our Values

We are a dynamic company dedicated to nurturing connectionsand innovating solutions to tackle market challenges head-on. If you thrive on customer satisfactionand turning ideas into reality, then you’ve found your ideal destination. Are you ready to embark on this exciting journey with us?

We make things happen

We act decisivelyand with purpose, going the extra mile.

We build together

We foster relationshipsand develop creative solutions to address market challenges.

We are here to help

We are accessibleand supportive to colleaguesand clients with a friendly approach.

Our People Pledge

Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that womenand people of color are less likely than others to apply if they feel like they don’t match 100% of the job requirements. Don’t let the confidence gap stand in your way, we’d love to hear from you! We understand that experience comes in many different formsand are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.