Senior Product Manager- Engine (Brazilia)

About Meridia

Meridia is an AgTech company specialised in software solutions for field data within complex agri-commodity supply chains.

Meridia Verify a SaaS product verifies supply chain field data against regulatory and voluntary sustainability frameworks in minutes and provides hands-on guidance for risk mitigation. Procurement and sustainability teams eliminate commercial and reputational risk prevent supply-chain disruptions and shift from guesswork to confident evidence-based decisions.

Our mission is to improve the veracity of datasets that drive decision-making in global agri-commodity supply chains. Our purpose is to build transparent and inclusive supply chains.

See for more information on our work.

Job Description

As Senior Product Manager for Meridias Engine you will own the product roadmap and delivery of the Engine a critical component of Meridias Verify platform.

One of Meridias core differentiators is its proprietary methodology for implementing regulatory and voluntary sustainability standards. This methodology is operationalised through a curated suite of tests applied to tabular and geospatial data enabling customers to identify assess and manage sustainability risks with close partnership with the Methodology team our sustainability domain experts the Engine squad is responsible for implementing this methodology into a scalable usable and reliable product experience. This includes building and evolving the Engine that executes these tests and ensures they deliver consistent high-quality insights to Meridias customers.

This role requires balancing strong technical and data understanding with commercial and customer insight. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer you will be part of the Engine squad alongside an Engineering Lead and a team of backend and GIS engineers. You will work cross-functionally with stakeholders across Product Methodology Engineering Data Customer Success and Sales to shape how the Engine evolves to meet customer needs and support business growth.

The Engine squad and broader Product team are distributed across Indonesia and Amsterdam requiring strong collaboration across time zones and disciplines. This is a remote role based in Brasília where a significant part of our Methodology team is located.

Meridia offers a highly collaborative fast-paced environment. Wee looking for a seasoned product manager to join our team someone whos technically and data savvy commercially minded customer centric humble and pragmatic.

Responsibilities

The Senior Product Manager has the following responsibilities:

• Product discovery: accountable for investigating roadmap candidates (using a blend of user interviews surveys product analytics & insights from internal domain experts) to determine the customer value and revenue impact we can deliver by serving specific jobs to be done (JTBD).
• User experience: collaborate with the methodology team engineers and the wider Product team to ideate on concepts for cross-squad initiatives and select a solution to be built. You will be accountable for ensuring the test profiles and overarching methodology have a strong user experience and represent accurately the expected outcomes described by methodology. The product team that is part of the Portal squad will be accountable for ensuring the Portal itself has a strong user experience.
• Product requirements: accountable for delivering requirements that engineers can then decompose into stories and tasks. This will entail working very closely with the Methodology team who own the vision and content of each test profile.
• Communication: proactively communicate with stakeholders across the business to involve them in conversations as appropriate and keep them informed of progress on Engine initiatives
• Execution: support the development process by troubleshooting obstacles on initiatives and collaborating closely with engineers in the Engine squad the Data team and the Portal squad as well as stakeholders in Customer Success Sales and Marketing.
• Roadmap planning: collaborate with the Lead Product Manager CPO and other senior stakeholders to prioritise roadmap candidates and determine the sequence in which theyre built.
• Backlog planning: own prioritisation of the backlog and bugs for the Engine squad
• Success metrics: conceive how we measure success for each Engine squad initiative on the roadmap that enters development
• Domain knowledge: develop a domain expertise on impacts associated to agricultural supply chains such as corporate voluntary commitments and emerging regulatory frameworks such as the EU deforestation regulation (EUDR)
• Market & competitor analysis: Regular analysis of the marketplace and competitors to inform product strategy and ensure Verify remains clearly differentiated
• Documentation: documenting the key decisions and associated evidence & rationale throughout the product lifecycle for roadmap items that enter development
• Enablement: ahead of release of roadmap items proactively train the Sales Marketing & Customer Success in the JTBD were serving as well as high level positioning & messaging

The ideal candidate has/is:

• 5 years experience as a product manager of technically advanced and data heavy products/platforms
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Enjoys working quickly in a fast paced environment
• A passion for owning the detail whether its requirements for an initiative or execution
• Highly collaborative very receptive to feedback and possesses a growth mindset
• Commercially astute and strong influencing skills
• Experience in a startup or early stage scaleup environment preferably in a regulated space
• Demonstrable experience of undertaking user research as well as leveraging customer data to inform decision making and define what success looks like
• Excellent English as the role will involve deep collaboration with teams in the Netherlands and Indonesia and regular calls with English-speaking customers
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Strong appreciation of the opportunities and constraints presented by cloud technologies
• A background in software engineering system analysis or technical business analysis is highly desired
• 2 years of B2B SaaS experience (desirable but not essential)
• Experience with a Geospatial or map related product (desirable but not essential)

Examples of some recent Engine squad projects

• Building alpha and beta version of our new Deforestation and Conversion Free (DCF) test profile (essentially a brand new product)
• Building human rights insights so its available in our EUDR test profile

The benefits package includes

• Competitive compensation aligned with your skills and experience
• Contractor position(4 days per week 32 hours)
• Fully remote working setup
• Preference for candidates based in Brasilia
• Opportunity to be part of a fast-growing impact venture with a professional informal working culture
• International exposure through collaboration with team members clients and users across multiple countries

Apply!

Applications will be processed on a rolling basis. Please apply by submitting your details on Workable: applications submitted through Workable will be reviewed.

The ideal starting date is May 2026.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC