Logistics Manager - Remote/Anywhere

Jiga; Philippines; Remote; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Jiga is seeking a Logistics Manager to own the end-to-end movement of parts across global supply chains, from Asia to the US and EU. This role blends operations with commercial savvy, negotiating rates, selecting modes, and guiding trade compliance.

You'll work with Sales and Suppliers, drive end-to-end shipment work, and keep freight recoveries balanced with margins. The team is remote and distributed, with async collaboration across multiple time zones.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in logistics and freight management.
• Strong commercial sense and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work in a distributed, async team across regions.
• Understanding of Incoterms and trade compliance is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end shipment process from supplier to customer.
• Negotiate rates, choose shipping modes based on time and cost, and guide trade compliance.
• Collaborate with Sales and Suppliers to align on commercial and operational goals.

Skills

Freight negotiation

Incoterms expertise

Supply chain operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

What we’re building

Jiga is on a mission to help engineers build physical products faster. The problem: engineers designing physical products waste weeks chasing quotes, vetting suppliers, managing freight, fighting with customs, and recovering from late shipments. Jiga fixes this by connecting engineers directly with vetted manufacturers (CNC, sheet metal, injection molding, 3D printing) and running the entire supply chain on their behalf - from RFQ to the loading dock. We're a small, fully-funded, cashflow-positive team serving enterprise customers like NASA, Google, Tesla, and Apple.

The role

We're looking for a Logistics Manager to own the physical movement of every part Jiga touches - from a CNC shop in Shenzhen to a robotics lab in Boston - and to do it with the commercial instincts of someone who understands that every shipping decision is also a business decision. This is not a freight-booking role. The right person is part operator, part dealmaker: negotiating rates with forwarders, choosing modes based on time, complexity, and constraints, guiding the trade compliance work our logistics admin executes, and pricing freight back to customers in a way that protects both the deal and the margin. You'll work alongside Sales on commercial calls, alongside Suppliers on physical execution, and own the operational seat where these two worlds meet.

How we actually work

We're a small remote team made up of the best of the best. Our team members are distributed around the globe - most of our product and engineering talent sits in Europe and Israel, and you'll work daily with operators, sales, and suppliers across the US, EU, and Asia. Most of our work is async, which is the secret sauce of our success.

• High trust, low bullshit. We don't count hours or peek over your shoulder on Slack. We trust you to get your work done and tell us when something's wrong. You'll have real ownership over how the supply chain runs, no process theater, no busy-work meetings.
• Question everything. See a freight contract that doesn't make sense? Renegotiate it. Think a customs flow is broken? Fix it. We mean it when we say we want people to challenge the status quo. Our internal motto is ‘Don\'t drink the kool-aid’.
• No busy work, no fluff. If you're addicted to building heavy processes and endless meetings, this isn't a fit. If you're addicted to closing the loop and shipping the box, it is.
• Actually friendly, not corporate friendly. We play games online every week. Once a year we fly everyone somewhere beautiful for our offsite. We genuinely like hanging out together - which turns out to be way better than forced team-building.

What we value in logistics

• Own the whole shipment, not just the booking. Quote it, book it, clear it, deliver it, reconcile it. End to end. Don't toss problems over a wall.
• Think commercially, not just operationally. Every lane choice, every Incoterm, every mode decision is also a business decision. The best logistics operators we've met think like partners to Sales, not dispatchers.
• Walk the factory floor. You can't run logistics if you don't understand manufacturing. Learn the parts, learn the lead times, learn what makes a Vietnam machine shop different from a German one. Be the supply chain operator our customers wish they had in-house.
• Get your hands dirty. Before you automate it, do it manually. Before you systematize it, prove it works. The best playbooks come from the people who lived inside the ugly version first.
• Calm under pressure. Shipments get stuck. Customs holds happen. Customers escalates. The job is staying steady, communicating clearly, and resolving - not panicking.

Move parts across the world

• Own international freight across air, ocean, and courier - primarily from Asia (China, Vietnam, India) to Israel, the US, and the EU, with growing volume in defense-adjacent and high-mix industrial lanes.
• Quote, negotiate, and book shipments with global freight leaders - the major express couriers and international airfreight / ocean forwarders - alongside a growing supplier-side network. Select the right mode per shipment based on business requirements: time sensitivity, shipment complexity, and customer or supplier constraints.
• Manage freight cost recovery from buyers and dispute surcharges with forwarders - exchange-rate adjustments, fuel surcharges, dim-weight re-rates.

Lead customs and trade compliance

• Own the customs and trade compliance function end-to-end - set the strategy, build the playbooks, and guide the Logistics Admin who executes the day-to-day filings, broker correspondence, and documentation work.
• Be the in-house expert the team escalates to on the harder questions: HTS classification edge cases, exclusion claims, CBP Form 28 responses, IOR / bill-to / ship-to logic where Jiga, the buyer, or the supplier may be the IOR, and customs holds across the US, Israel, and the EU.
• Keep Jiga compliant