技术副总裁
VP, Technology
Portcast 是一家位于新加坡的物流科技初创公司，获得风险投资支持，致力于打造实时运输可视化的平台，服务于全球供应链。我们帮助发货人、制造商和物流服务提供商将数据转化为决策，并将决策转化为可衡量的业务影响。
我们的平台超越了可视性。Portcast 通过提前识别正确的风险，使团队能够防止滞留和滞期，加快异常处理，并通过内置证据更快地完成发票结算。我们将可视性转化为成果：降低成本、提高运营控制力，并实现更可预测的供应链。
自 2018 年成立以来，我们获得了领先的科技投资者的支持，正在为一个处于数字化转型关键转折点的行业打造解决方案。我们的软件工程师、数据科学家和物流专家团队正致力于让供应链不仅可见，而且从端到端都具备明确的行动力。
职位简介：
我们正在寻找一位技术负责人（AI 与平台方向），负责领导我们的工程、机器学习/数据科学和分析团队，同时紧密关注架构和执行。
该职位将领导并管理工程团队、机器学习/数据科学团队和数据分析团队。您将推动我们如何构建系统、如何使用数据和 AI，以及随着公司成长，我们的系统如何扩展。
我们寻找一位具备扎实技术背景的领导者，能够从基本原理出发思考问题，做出清晰的决策，并保持对技术的深入理解。一位能够解决复杂问题，清晰分解问题，并引导团队找到实用且可扩展解决方案的人。
您将与 CEO、产品、销售和客户团队密切合作，将真实的客户问题转化为系统、工具和 AI 能力，从而驱动成果、为客户和公司创造价值，而不仅仅是功能。
这不是一个纯粹的管理岗位。它需要强大的技术判断力，能够在工程和数据之间自如操作，并具备通过方向和执行来领导团队的能力。您将设定技术标准，加强团队之间的协作，并确保工程、机器学习和分析作为一个统一的能力支持业务发展。
此职位成功的标志是：
- 工程、机器学习和分析团队作为一个明确、结构化且高效运作的单元，拥有清晰的责任划分和强大的交付可预测性。
- 技术决策基于第一性原理思考、可扩展的架构和长期的产品清晰度。
- AI 和数据能力
查看英文原文
Portcast is a venture-backed, Singapore-based logistics technology startup building a real-time transportation visibility platform for global supply chains. We help shippers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers turn data into decisions and decisions into measurable business impact.
Our platform goes beyond visibility. Portcast enables action at scale by surfacing the right risks early, helping teams prevent detention and demurrage, accelerate exception management, and close invoices faster with built-in evidence. We turn visibility into outcomes: reduced costs, improved operational control, and more predictable supply chains.
Founded in 2018 and backed by leading technology investors, we are building for an industry at a critical inflection point of digital transformation. Our team of software engineers, data scientists, and logistics experts is on a mission to make supply chains not just visible, but decisively actionable end-to-end.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We're looking for a Technical Lead, AI & Platform to lead our engineering, ML/DS, and analytics teams while staying close to architecture and execution.
This role will lead and manage the Engineering team, ML/Data Science team, and Data Analytics team. You'll drive how we build, how we use data and AI, and how our systems scale as the company grows.
We're looking for a strong technical leader who thinks from first principles, makes clear decisions, and stays close to the technology. Someone who can step into complex problems, break them down clearly, and guide teams toward practical, scalable solutions.
You'll work closely with the CEO, Product, Sales, and Customer teams to translate real customer problems into systems, tools, and AI capabilities that drive outcomes, value to our customer and company revenue, not just features.
This is not a pure management role. It requires strong technical judgment, comfort operating across engineering and data, and the ability to lead through both direction and execution. You'll set the technical bar, strengthen how teams work together, and ensure engineering, ML, and analytics move as one cohesive capability supporting the business.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THIS ROLE:
- Engineering, ML, and Analytics operate as a clear, structured, and high-performing unit with defined ownership and strong delivery predictability.
- Technical decisions are grounded in first-principles thinking, scalable architecture, and long-term product clarity.
- AI and data capabilities are consistently deployed into production and directly tied to measurable business impact.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN:
Engineering Leadership & Architecture
- Drive technical direction across platform, infrastructure, and product systems
- Define scalable architecture and ensure reliability, performance, and security
- Improve engineering velocity, code quality, and delivery discipline
- Strengthen documentation, ownership, and system clarity
- Mentor tech team: Engineering, ML, Analytics
AI, Data Science & Analytics Strategy
- Define how AI and data drive competitive advantage in our product
- Ensure ML models move from experimentation into production environmentsStrengthen MLOps, data pipelines, and real-time data systems
- Align analytics insights with product and customer decision-making
- Ensure AI investments translate into real outcomes, not just experiments
Product & Business Alignment
- Partner closely with Product to shape technical roadmap
- Work with Sales and Customer teams to understand enterprise requirements
- Guide solution design for complex customer use cases
- Ensure engineering effort maps directly to business impact
Team, Culture & Organizational Development
- Lead and develop Engineering, ML/Data Science, and Analytics teams
- Hire strong senior talent and raise the technical bar
- Create clarity in roles, responsibilities, and technical ownership
- Reduce single-point dependency across critical systems
- Build a culture of accountability, curiosity, and effectiveness
Hands-On Technical Leadership
- Stay close to architecture and key system decisions
- Review critical designs and technical proposals
- Step into complex technical problems when neededPrototype or validate high-impact ideas
- Lead by example in technical depth and problem solving
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
Experience:
- 10+ years in software engineering, data, or ML environments
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience leading technical teams in a startup or product-driven B2B SaaS company
- Track record building and scaling production AI/ML systems
- Experience with distributed systems, real-time data, and cloud infrastructure
- Background in logistics or supply chain industry, or data-heavy SaaS is a strong plus
- Previous experience working in enterprises/fortune 500 is a plus
Technical Depth
- Strong backend and system architecture expertise
- Experience deploying ML/AI systems into production, not just research
- Deep understanding of MLOps, data platforms, and model lifecycle management
- Comfortable operating across engineering, data science, and analytics domains
Leadership & Culture
- First-principles thinker who breaks down complex problems clearly
- High ownership and accountability
- Builder mindset with strong technical judgment
- Clear communicator across technical and business teams
- Focused on effectiveness and real outcomes
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:
- Globally distributed, remote-first flexibility: Work with a fully distributed team across Asia and Europe,built on trust, accountability, and collaboration. Our diversity of perspectives fuels innovation and keeps us curious.
- Tech-first team: You'll work with like-minded individuals who share a passion for solving difficult problem using technology.
- Accelerated growth: Compress the learning curve in a couple of years by owning the web app from day one as your own baby. We are building our company to be the next B2B market leader in predictive global supply chains and you'll be a major part of our story.
- Impact you can see: With a lean structure, your work is effective from the start. You'll see the results of your ideas and decisions directly moving the business forward.
Our CORE Values Guide Everything We Do:
Curiosity: We stay hungry to learn and explore.
Ownership: We act like founders and take responsibility.
Raising the bar: We aim higher, never settling for good enough.
Effective: We focus on impact and outcomes that matter.
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