Position: Senior Product Manager (Technology Consulting, Business Analysis)
Location: Sydney, Australia
WorkStyle: Sydney Hybrid based
Simple Machines. Data Engineered to Life™

Simple Machines is a leading independent boutique technology firm with a global presence, including teams in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and New Zealand. We specialise in creating technology solutions at the intersection of data, AI, machine learning, data engineering, and software engineering. Our mission is to help enterprises, technology companies, and governments better connect with and understand their organisations, their people, their customers, and citizens. We are a team of creative engineers and technologists dedicated to unleashing the potential of data in new and impactful ways. We design and build bespoke data platforms and unique software products, create and deploy intelligent systems, and bring engineering expertise to life by transforming data into actionable insights and tangible outcomes.

About You

We are looking for a consultant-minded individual who is passionate about working closely with clients to solve complex problems and lead them on a journey from discovery to technical implementation. You have a knack for understanding client needs and delivering market-leading solutions and have worked in Technology Consulting | Business Analysis | Software Development

You will love and excel in this role if you:

• Have a strong background in Technology Consulting, played a Senior Manager role within a top-tier consulting company.
• Have a refined understanding of how modern software is built and delivered (tools, methodologies, roles, common challenges etc.)
• A demonstrated knowledge of different methods and tools that help you to perform analysis, testing, product management and delivery in a range of environment
• Know how to effectively communicate information between people at all levels of the business, in written and verbal form
• Have a passion for accruing knowledge, and using that knowledge to continuously improve yourself and the team’s performance
• Personal interest in best practice and trends of the technology industry, with the ability to apply these to your day-to-day work
• A relationship builder by nature, and someone who can thrive in new teams and new situations
• A proactive person who knows what needs to be done, how to approach it, and how to influence others to move things forward
• An ambitious person who is excited about the prospect of joining a small, close-knit ANZ team of experts and helping it to grow

The Exciting Part

Simple Machines is not your average consultancy or software engineering firm. Our team is comprised of inspiring industry leaders in Consulting, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Our projects, for a global client base, are data-focused and drive real change.

About the Role

We are looking for someone to join our close-knit team of experts to help deliver our client engagements as we scale our ANZ business. If you excel in client facing roles, have a deep understanding of how modern software is built and delivered, and have a passion for technology then we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s a brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:

Drive the engagement

• Understand each clients’ unique business needs, the ‘why’ behind each project and develop solutions that will fulfil each clients’ success criteria
• Act as a translator between business teams and technology delivery
• Develop domain expertise unique to each engagement

Feed the engineering team

• Provide high quality written requirements, acceptance criteria, feature overviews, test cases and other artefacts for the team to work from
• Run effective meetings with team and stakeholders

Drive the team’s direction

• Clearly articulate the business needs and work with the tech team to translate these into technical requirements
• Persuade the client and the SM team on what should be done and why

Increase the team’s speed

• Understand and anticipate dependencies in software delivery
• Enable decision making through excellent communication

Assure the team’s focus

• Protect the engineering team from day to day ‘noise’
• Embed and optimise processes to handle our scope of work and new demand

Assure SM’s position with the client

• Build and nurture relationships with clients at all levels
• Help to manage SM’s delivery risk

Who is ShiftCare?

ShiftCare is a fast-growing SaaS scale-up and its innovative software is a market leader that helps Australian & American disability support providers, in-home aged carers, and allied health professionals streamline the way they work by creating efficiencies in rostering, client management, and billing, enabling businesses to grow.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Customer Success Manager focused on onboarding to join our team. Our ideal candidate will engage and manage relationships with our customers, ensuring their satisfaction with our products and services, and driving retention and expansion of our customer base.

Responsibilities

• Product Mastery: Develop an in-depth understanding of our product and its features, and work closely with customers to help them maximise the value of our solution.
• Customer Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with our customers, acting as their primary point of contact for any questions, concerns, or issues that may arise.
• Onboarding Ownership: Take ownership of the customer onboarding process, collaborate closely with different stakeholders to understand requirements, and ensure a seamless onboarding experience for our customers.
• Customer Health Monitoring: Monitor customer health and engagement metrics, and develop and execute strategies to improve retention and reduce churn.
• Product Adoption: Drive adoption and usage of our product by providing guidance, training, and best practices to our customers.
• SLA Management: Ensure SLAs are met and workloads are managed across all allocated onboarding setups.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build relationships with cross-functional teams (Operations, Engineering, Sales, Product, Marketing) to deliver the best experience for our clients and enhance the company's NPS.
• Customer Advocacy: Represent the voice of the customer to internal teams, providing feedback and insights to help drive product and service improvements.
• Upselling and Cross-Selling: Proactively identify opportunities to upsell and cross-sell our services.

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or a related field.
• Experience: 2+ years of experience in a customer success or professional, client-focused account servicing role, preferably within a SaaS business.
• Skills:
• Outstanding execution and product demonstration abilities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Experience providing Zoom training sessions to customers with a broad range of technical aptitudes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex issues.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and customers simultaneously.
• Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with customer success metrics, and the ability to analyse and interpret data to drive action.
• Software Experience: Experience with CRM and customer engagement software (e.g., HubSpot, Intercom, ChurnZero).
• Industry Knowledge: Previous experience working with timesheet, payroll, or accounting software is a bonus.
• Work Ethic: Ability to work independently and remotely, with a strong work ethic and time management skills.
• Industry Familiarity: Familiarity with our industry is a plus.

Key Competencies

• Customer-Centric Mindset: Always prioritising the needs and satisfaction of the customer.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the bigger picture and contribute to the strategic direction of the customer success team.
• Proactive Approach: Taking initiative to anticipate customer needs and resolve potential issues before they escalate.
• Adaptability: Thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with the ability to adapt to changing customer needs and priorities.

Why join Shiftcare?

We offer a competitive salary along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment including:

• Fast-track Growth:
• Experience quick career advancement in our growth-oriented environment, ensuring your potential is recognised and rewarded.
• Job Security:
• Rest easy with stable ownership and meticulous team growth management, building your career on a foundation of stability and forward-thinking.
• Floating Public Holidays:
• Enjoy flexibility to celebrate preferred holidays or personal events with floating public holidays.
• Employee Discount Marketplace:
• Access a wide range of discounted products and services, enhancing your ability to save money and enjoy preferred items.

At Shiftcare, we prioritise creating a workplace where employees can thrive both professionally and personally.

Ready to redefine your career? Join ShiftCare and be part of a revolution in care delivery.

Apply now and be the driving force behind our continued success!

The role: 

You’ll be responsible for maintaining strong relationships across our top 30+ customers, in order to maximise value to Transvirtual. You’ll do this by building a relationship, establishing trust, mapping out their businesses and needs to define opportunities, including adjacent vertical, supporting their business lines not yet using transvirtual. 

You’ll work closely with our existing Customer Success manager who oversees the hundreds of clients we have today, as well as our Support Manager and Technical Product Support Lead. They will help ensure clients needs are completed giving you the support to focus on the commercial aspects of relationships. 

Key to your success will be developing a deep understanding of our products as well as the industry in which we operate in. This will empower you to direct the team on tasks and, where necessary, be autonomous when solving escalated client queries.  

Your focus will be: 

• Building relationships 

• Documenting and detailing out clients businesses to share learnings with the internal team and define opportunities for our growth 

• Report status updates to clients and keep internal stakeholders informed and accountable 

• Ensure client requests are closed to a high standard of satisfaction 

• Collate and share trends and client feedback with product and engineering to ensure improvements are made 

• Provide consultation to customers regarding the most effective use of Transvirtual platform in conducting business 

• Keep HubSpot & Confluence documentation up to date  

Why you will love this role: 

• Become a Client leader in a growing market: We have a growing list of customers in the ANZ markets and looking to expand into more sizable Enterprise level deals in an industry that is growing and evolving rapidly 

• Join a dedicated and experienced team: you’ll work alongside a dedicated and experienced team who have carved out a solid reputation for operational experience 

• Drive your initiatives to success: a large part of this role will have you bringing your own ideas and experiences to challenge how we’ve always done things. As a business we thrive on everyone’s initiative to grow the business.  

• Friendly, with a global presence: we are a fun team, largely based in Australia, but also Philippines, India, USA, and Pakistan. You’ll get the chance to collaborate with multiple teams who are all inclusive and open. 

 
Essential Skills / qualifications: 

• 5 years or more working as a CS or Account Manager in a SaaS or similar business 

• Proven capacity to develop unrivalled product knowledge in a new sector (or Logistics experience) 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Experience managing a team, both in office and remote 

• Demonstrable experience working with teams to align on values and behaviours to make improvements  

Desired Skills: 

• Commercial university degree or equivalent  

• Understanding/experience of the logistics sector / SaaS businesses 

• Excellent communication and negotiation skills  

• Ability to connect with a range of customers and find key buying habits of prospects. 

• Great team player who understands the importance of working together to meet a common goal. 

About Transvirtual: 

Transvirtual is a modern SaaS business, delivering industry-leading logistics solutions.  

Inspired by his family’s involvement in the transport industry, our founder set out to build a truly configurable Transport Management System (TMS) that could adapt to the diverse needs of this sector. We’ve built on our unique selling point of configurability by developing a deep network which allows transport businesses to process more data, more effectively, through extensive integrations.  

Today we have evolved our product set beyond TMS and offer a complete logistics solution, expanding beyond Australia into New Zealand, USA and Canada. 

Our culture is constantly evolving, and we ensure strategic alignment through clear goals set using OKRs. We thrive on positive, consistent, and collaborative communication, necessary for a remote first business. We support that through fortnightly all hands meetings and Quarterly Workshops including Retros. 

We’re always looking for outstanding candidates to join us as Technology, Logistics and Growth experts. So, if you’re excited by this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you! 

The role:

In this newly created role, you will spearhead and lead our acquisition focus in the ANZ market for our industry leading Transport Management System (TMS). 

Established over 18 years ago in the Australian market, TransVirtual is a fully integrated platform connecting agents, carriers, and logistic businesses all over the globe. Its strength is in its simplicity and scalability, as well its ability to integrate multiple carriers for a full 360-degree view of your logistics business.   

This role is of strategic importance to open pathways to introduce our technology with transport and logistics companies all over ANZ. You will have a background in sourcing new business opportunities be it over the phone and face to face; and have extensive experience with negotiating high level deals that may be complex in structure.

Having knowledge of the logistics industry will be a huge benefit, but most importantly your ability to understand quicky the relationships and connections to unlock deals will be paramount. Because of the nature of these partnership opportunities, networking, connecting with key decision makers and having a presence online and in person at key events will play an important role in your success.  

In support, we have a resourceful and dedicated team with decades of experience in the logistics space. As we are making in-roads into this market, this role represents a unique opportunity to make your mark and help grow this exciting technology abroad.    

Your key stakeholders will be our Head of Sales and General Manager. 

Why you will love this role:

• Become a sales leader in a brand-new market: We have a robust plan to expand further in the ANZ market, to connect our platform to businesses in the ANZ market. Get in the door early to grow within the ranks of a fast paced and growing organization.   
• Join a dedicated and experienced team: you’ll work alongside a dedicated and experienced team who have carved out a solid reputation for operational experience.  
• Drive your initiatives to success: a large part of this role will you bringing your own ideas and experiences to meet the needs of our acquisition targets. As a business we thrive on everyone’s initiative to grow the business. 
• The team is built on accountability and trust: we have built our foundations on a Charter of Culture to support the team to meet milestones, drive to better performance and have open and honest communication…. always
• Friendly, remote team: we are a fun team, largely based in Australia, but also Philippines, India, USA, and Pakistan. You’ll get the chance to collaborate with multiple teams who are all inclusive and open.

Essential Skills / qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience in a business development role. 
• Adept at sourcing and following up opportunities to meet sales targets.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Experience in managing a contact pipeline – CRM updates (we use HubSpot)
• Networking experience to connect with business owners and managers. 
• A proven talent for opening doors and negotiating strategic deals.
• Ability to think and act fast as directions change to meet sales quota 
  
  

Desired Skills:

• Marketing university degree or equivalent – maturity in your thinking is what we are after
• Understanding/experience of the logistics sector / SaaS businesses
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills – find and close deals.
• Ability to connect with a range of customers and finding key buying habits of prospects
• Great team player who understands the importance of working together to meet a common goal.

About TransVirtual:

TransVirtual is a modern SaaS business, delivering industry-leading logistics solutions. 

Inspired by his family’s involvement in the transport industry, our founder set out to build a truly configurable Transport Management System (TMS) that could adapt to the diverse needs of this sector. We’ve built on our unique selling point of configurability by developing a deep network which allows transport businesses to process more data, more effectively, through extensive integrations. 

Today we have evolved our product set beyond TMS and offer a complete logistics solution, expanding beyond Australia into New Zealand, USA and Canada.

Our culture is constantly evolving, and we ensure strategic alignment through clear goals set using OKRs. We thrive on positive, consistent, and collaborative communication, necessary for a remote first business. We support that through fortnightly all hands meetings and Quarterly Workshops including Retros.

We’re always looking for outstanding candidates to join us as Technology, Logistics and Growth experts. So, if you’re excited by this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!