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Hybrid." }, { "slug": "frontend-engineer-dispatch", "title": "Frontend engineer, dispatch app", "team": "Engineering", "location": "Remote, UK", "type": "Full-time", "salary": "£55,000–£65,000", "summary": "Build the dispatch screens that drivers and dispatchers use on busy mornings, on a laptop and on a phone at the kerb.", "body": "<h2>What you'll do</h2><ul><li>Build and test dispatch screens in TypeScript and React, from the first sketch to the release.</li><li>Make the map and the timeline fast on an older phone, because drivers use them standing at the kerb.</li><li>Work with the designer on the details, and say so when a design cannot be built well in the time.</li><li>Look at the error logs with the team every week and fix the ones that cost a dispatcher time.</li><li>Work from anywhere in the UK, with a team day at Gantry Wharf once a quarter, travel paid.</li></ul><h2>What you'll bring</h2><ul><li>Several years of frontend work, with at least one product that people used every day.</li><li>A clear sense of accessibility, including keyboard use and text that stays readable in a van.</li><li>Patience with the detail, and a habit of writing down what you changed and why.</li></ul><h2>Nice to have</h2><ul><li>Experience with maps, charts or real-time data.</li><li>Time spent building for a mobile-first audience.</li></ul><h2>How we hire</h2><p>Four steps, the same for every role: an application read within five working days, a 30-minute intro call, a paid task of about three hours, then a final conversation. The How we work page sets out the timelines.</p>", "closing": "Open until filled", "seo_title": "Frontend engineer, dispatch app, remote UK · Tidewater Labs", "search_summary": "Frontend engineer role at Tidewater Labs: build the dispatch app courier firms use on busy mornings. Remote within the UK, with a few days a year in Selbury Docks." }, { "slug": "product-manager-dispatch", "title": "Product manager, dispatch", "team": "Product", "location": "Selbury Docks, hybrid", "type": "Full-time", "salary": "£58,000–£68,000", "summary": "Decide what the dispatch desk gets next, by spending a week a month in the depot with the people who use it.", "body": "<h2>What you'll do</h2><ul><li>Own the roadmap for the dispatch product, and explain each choice to the customers it affects.</li><li>Spend time with dispatchers and drivers, and write up what you saw before you decide anything.</li><li>Shape the work with engineering and design, from the first problem statement to the release.</li><li>Decide what not to build, and tell the customers who asked for it why.</li></ul><h2>What you'll bring</h2><ul><li>Experience managing a software product that people use at work, ideally in logistics or operations.</li><li>Good judgement about trade-offs, and the habit of checking a decision after it ships.</li><li>Clear writing, because the best product decisions here are written down.</li></ul><h2>Nice to have</h2><ul><li>Time on a dispatch desk, a fleet, or a small courier firm.</li><li>Experience with pricing or with onboarding new customers.</li></ul><h2>How we hire</h2><p>Four steps, the same for every role: an application read within five working days, a 30-minute intro call, a paid task of about three hours, then a final conversation. The How we work page sets out the timelines.</p>", "closing": "Open until filled", "seo_title": "Product manager for dispatch software · Tidewater Labs", "search_summary": "Product manager role at Tidewater Labs in Selbury Docks: set the direction for the dispatch product small courier firms use every morning. Hybrid." }, { "slug": "product-designer", "title": "Product designer", "team": "Design", "location": "Selbury Docks, hybrid", "type": "Full-time", "salary": "£52,000–£60,000", "summary": "Design the map and timelines so a dispatcher can read a whole day's plan at a glance.", "body": "<h2>What you'll do</h2><ul><li>Design the map, timeline and driver screens, from the first sketch to the finished component.</li><li>Test your work with dispatchers in the depot, and change it when they find something you missed.</li><li>Keep the component library tidy, so the next screen takes a day instead of a week.</li><li>Write short notes on each decision, so the engineers know why it looks the way it does.</li></ul><h2>What you'll bring</h2><ul><li>A portfolio of product design work, with at least one piece that used real data.</li><li>Strong sense of typography and layout, and a clear view of how colour carries meaning on a screen.</li><li>Comfort working in a small team that ships every fortnight.</li></ul><h2>Nice to have</h2><ul><li>Experience with data visualisation or dense interfaces.</li><li>Time spent with operations or logistics teams.</li></ul><h2>How we hire</h2><p>Four steps, the same for every role: an application read within five working days, a 30-minute intro call, a paid task of about three hours, then a final conversation. The How we work page sets out the timelines.</p>", "closing": "Open until filled", "seo_title": "Product designer, route planning · Tidewater Labs", "search_summary": "Product designer at Tidewater Labs: design the maps and timelines dispatchers read every morning. Hybrid in Selbury Docks." }, { "slug": "customer-success-lead", "title": "Customer success lead", "team": "Customer success", "location": "Selbury Docks, hybrid", "type": "Part-time", "salary": "£34,000–£40,000 a year, pro rata for three days a week", "summary": "Help courier firms set up their first routes, bring their problems back to the product team, and lead our second customer success hire later this year.", "body": "<h2>What you'll do</h2><ul><li>Set up new courier firms on the planner, from their first depot and van to their first full morning of routes.</li><li>Run the weekly check-in with each customer, and log every problem they raise.</li><li>Take the problems that come up most often to the product team, with the evidence.</li><li>Write the help articles that answer the questions you were asked that week.</li></ul><h2>What you'll bring</h2><ul><li>Experience in customer success, account management or dispatch, ideally with small businesses.</li><li>Calm, clear phone and email manners, and an easy way with people who are short of time.</li><li>Careful notes, because the same question often comes back in a different form.</li></ul><h2>Nice to have</h2><ul><li>Experience with logistics software or a route-planning tool.</li><li>Time working in a depot or a courier office.</li></ul><h2>How we hire</h2><p>Four steps, the same for every role: an application read within five working days, a 30-minute intro call, a paid task of about three hours, then a final conversation. The How we work page sets out the timelines.</p>", "closing": "Open until filled", "seo_title": "Customer success lead, part-time · Tidewater Labs", "search_summary": "Part-time customer success lead at Tidewater Labs: help small courier firms set up their routes and turn their problems into product work. Three days a week." }, { "slug": "operations-finance-coordinator", "title": "Operations and finance coordinator", "team": "Operations", "location": "Selbury Docks, hybrid", "type": "Full-time", "salary": "£36,000–£42,000", "summary": "Keep the office, supplier bills and payroll support running, and be the first person people ask when something is missing.", "body": "<h2>What you'll do</h2><ul><li>Run the office on Gantry Wharf: deliveries, visitors, the kitchen and the equipment for new starters.</li><li>Process supplier invoices and expense claims on time, and chase the ones that stall.</li><li>Support payroll with the timesheets and changes that the People team sends you.</li><li>Keep the team calendar, the office days and the learning budget records tidy.</li></ul><h2>What you'll bring</h2><ul><li>Experience in an operations, finance or office support role, in a small company if you can.</li><li>Careful with figures, and comfortable with spreadsheets and accounting software.</li><li>A friendly, practical manner with people at every level, and the sense to ask when you are unsure.</li></ul><h2>Nice to have</h2><ul><li>Experience with payroll or with a UK accounts package.</li><li>Experience running events for a team of thirty or more.</li></ul><h2>How we hire</h2><p>Four steps, the same for every role: an application read within five working days, a 30-minute intro call, a paid task of about three hours, then a final conversation. The How we work page sets out the timelines.</p>", "closing": "Open until filled", "seo_title": "Operations and finance coordinator · Tidewater Labs", "search_summary": "Operations and finance coordinator at Tidewater Labs in Selbury Docks: run the office, supplier invoices and payroll support for a 34-person software company." } ] } ] }