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title: 'Senior Product Manager – Parts Data at Partao'
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# Senior Product Manager – Parts Data at Partao

- **Company:** Partao
- **Location:** South Africa
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/partao/am9icG9zdDqgAeELQS0sTQavcmW8xkkE

## Job description

## About the Role

We're looking for a Product Manager with a deep understanding of data architecture, a sharp technical mind, and a passion for leveraging AI to structure, standardize, and surface complex information. This role sits at the heart of our data platform and will shape how the heavy machinery-parts world connects. This is a fully remote role open to candidates globally. Strong English proficiency is essential, and the role pays approximately €1800 - €2400 per month depending on experience.

## What You’ll Do

Define Data Models

- Design flexible, scalable data schemas to represent agricultural parts, equipment, and compatibility (fitment) relationships
- Work closely with data engineers to refine taxonomies and part hierarchies
- Ensure models support both human usability and AI-readability Drive Data Normalization Algorithms
- Design rule-based and ML-enhanced systems for cleaning and standardizing messy supplier and OEM data
- Prioritize approaches that improve matching accuracy and part deduplication
- Define KPIs and test frameworks to measure normalization effectiveness Leverage AI and Automation
- Partner with ML engineers to identify where AI can improve categorization, entity extraction, and compatibility inference
- Guide AI product strategy—from training dataset definition to UX for AI-powered features
- Stay current with generative and traditional AI techniques relevant to structured data Define Interfaces
- Specify APIs and internal tooling interfaces to power product search, part selection, and fitment validation workflows
- Collaborate with frontend and backend teams to ensure seamless integration and performance
- Champion developer experience and documentation standards

## What You Bring

- 4+ years in product management, ideally in a data-heavy domain (e.g., eCommerce, B2B marketplaces, catalog platforms, or supply chain tech)
- Experience working on schema definition, data pipelines, or data platforms
- Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, and operations teams
- Familiarity with data normalization, entity resolution, or catalog management problems
- Understanding of how to evaluate and integrate AI/ML systems into product workflows
- A builder’s mindset: willing to dive deep, write specs, draw schemas, and iterate quickly
- Excellent written communication and a high bar for clarity and detail
- University degree, ideally in a science, technical or business domain

Bonus Points

- Experience with agricultural equipment, industrial parts, or automotive catalogs
- Exposure to LLMs, embeddings, or vector search applied to structured data
- Prior work in remote-first or distributed teams
- Proficiency in at least one additional European language (e.g., German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish)

Why Join Us?

- Shape the data backbone of a fast-scaling B2B platform
- Work with real-world data that matters to customers every day
- Join a small, sharp, and globally distributed team
- Own critical decisions and make an impact from Day 1

## What We Offer

- Opportunity to be a thought leader with a wide span of control in a fast-growing startup with experienced mentors
- A challenging and rewarding environment where you can directly impact the future of the company and the industry

## About Partao

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Partao is an AI-enabled online marketplace and SaaS platform connecting buyers with over 5 million spare parts for agricultural and construction machinery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage; raised $3.1M in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- **Founded**: 2025 (some sources mention 2023; the most recent structured data states 2025) [linkedin.com]
- **Founders**: Alex Ootes (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet / Agri-Tech / Marketplace for agricultural and construction spare parts.
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – farmers, equipment owners, dealers, and mechanics across Europe.
- **Mission or purpose**: “To keep agriculture and construction moving” by offering the most extensive selection of genuine and quality parts with fast delivery.

## Products & Services
- **Marketplace (Core Platform)**: A digital catalog with 5+ million spare parts for brands like John Deere, Fendt, Case IH, Massey Ferguson, and Kubota. Customers can search, compare, and order parts for delivery across Europe. [partao.com]
- **AI‑Enabled SaaS**: Underlying technology that powers part matching, search, and procurement optimization using machine learning, improving accuracy and speed for users.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of USD 3.1 M (Pre-Seed, February 2025) led by Mangrove Capital Partners [linkedin.com].
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mangrove Capital Partners (lead); additional four investors in the Pre-Seed round.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew +115.4% year-over-year to 25 employees.
  - Monthly website visits: 42,332 (though declining 3.2% month-on-month).
  - Featured as one of 15 startups graduating from Luxembourg’s “Fit 4 Start” program (June 2025) [siliconluxembourg.com via search result].
  - Expanding workforce across 7 countries (Armenia, Luxembourg, South Africa, India, UK, Egypt, Germany).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vast inventory** (5 M+ parts from 2,000+ brands) makes it a one‑stop shop for agricultural and construction spare parts.
- **AI and technology layer** enhances part identification and supply chain efficiency.
- **Fast delivery across Europe** with a centralized logistics approach.
- **First‑mover advantage** in a fragmented $51.3 B global machinery parts market.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continue adding brands and part categories; improve AI‑powered search and recommendation features.
- **Geographic growth**: Deepen presence across European markets while building remote‑first engineering hubs in Armenia and India.
- **SaaS enablement**: Possibly offer the underlying platform as a white‑label solution for OEMs and large distributors.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring for remote technical roles (Backend, Data, QA) and operations roles in Armenia, India, South Africa, and Luxembourg.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Ambition meets impact” – a team that values ownership, collaboration, and solving real‑world challenges for farmers and builders [partao.com/careers].
- **Remote‑first approach**: Many tech roles are fully remote; Luxembourg office supports a hybrid model [builtin.com].
- **Fast‑growing startup**: Opportunity to shape the company’s future as one of Europe’s fastest‑growing agri‑tech marketplaces.
- **Diverse, distributed team**: Employees from 7 countries and a flat structure with strong representation in technical departments (43% of staff).
- **Early‑stage equity & impact**: Joining at pre‑Seed means significant ownership potential and direct influence on product and culture.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com (company profile)](https://linkedin.com/company/partao)
2. [partao.com (homepage)](https://partao.com)
3. [partao.com/careers](https://partao.com/careers)
4. [partao.com/careers2 (second careers page)](https://partao.com/careers2)
5. [jobs.gem.com/partao](https://jobs.gem.com/partao)
6. [builtin.com/company/partao](https://builtin.com/company/partao)
7. [siliconluxembourg.com (via search result – not directly linked but sourced from search)]

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