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Director of Product, Platform

QAD
Pune, IND
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
Product managementManufacturing data platformsAI and machine learning productsSemantic layer designLLM evaluation frameworksKnowledge graphs

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Organization Overview

QAD provides ERP solutions for manufacturing industries including automotive, life sciences, food and beverage, high tech, and industrial markets.

QAD's Adaptive Manufacturing Cloud serves global manufacturers and supports precise, agile, and intelligent operations.

ERA is QAD's Enterprise Resource Allocation platform, positioned as a domain intelligence layer between ERP systems and AI agents.

Role Overview

The role owns ERA's Manufacturing Data Fabric and Intelligence layer, including semantic data, metric governance, AI Insights, and conversational analytics.

The role reports to the Head of Platform Product and leads Product Managers and Technical Product Owners.

The mandate is to make manufacturing data meaningful, queryable, and AI-ready at enterprise scale.

Platform Strategy and Roadmap

  • Own the multi-year roadmap for the Manufacturing Data Fabric and Intelligence layer.
  • Define a governed manufacturing ontology encoding metric definitions, constraints, supplier relationships, and business rules.
  • Lead AI Insights capabilities including anomaly detection, narrative generation, and agentic root cause analysis.

AI and Conversational Analytics

  • Drive conversational analytics using ontology design, knowledge graphs, context graphs, and intent detection.
  • Own evaluation standards for latency, accuracy, relevancy, LLM-as-judge methods, and human oversight.
  • Define the approach to proactive, action-triggering agentic AI within ERP workflows.

Self-Service Reporting

  • Own self-service reporting strategy for manufacturing, finance, supply chain, and operations users.
  • Define report access controls, sharing permissions, data scoping, scheduling, exports, embedding, white-labeling, and audit trails.
  • Lead rollout, go-to-market, customer adoption, onboarding, and feedback loops for self-service reporting.

Data Infrastructure and Intelligence

  • Partner with Engineering on data lake, pipeline, and event architecture optimized for AI readiness, scale, and cost.
  • Own the metric registry and semantic data model for consistent manufacturing KPI definitions.
  • Maintain data quality and freshness standards and define monetization for governed exports, delta sharing, and partner integrations.

GTM and Customer Partnership

  • Act as product authority for Sales and Marketing on Data, AI, and Analytics capabilities.
  • Create enablement assets and support complex enterprise deals, discovery, RFPs, and proof-of-concept engagements.
  • Conduct customer interviews, site visits, advisory sessions, and discovery-led roadmap development.

Leadership

  • Lead and grow a team of Product Managers and Technical Product Owners.
  • Align Product, Engineering, UX, Customer Success, Sales, and executive leadership on priorities and sequencing.
  • Represent the Data, AI, and Analytics platform in senior leadership and roadmap forums.

Experience

  • 15+ years of product management experience with significant data platform, analytics, or AI/ML product experience in enterprise SaaS.
  • Experience owning 0-to-1 and scale-up AI Insights or analytics platforms through enterprise general availability.
  • Experience with ERP, CRM, or B2B enterprise software and complex enterprise operations data.
  • Experience driving measurable user, satisfaction, cost, or revenue outcomes and building go-to-market motions.
  • Structured customer discovery experience and a track record of building and scaling product teams.

Technical and Leadership Qualifications

  • Hands-on fluency with LLM evaluation, semantic layers, knowledge graphs, RAG, conversational analytics, and agentic AI.
  • Strong command of Snowflake, Databricks, delta sharing, ETL/ELT, event-driven pipelines, and federated search.
  • Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, and API design.
  • Director-level leadership maturity, strong executive communication, and the ability to build consensus across stakeholders.

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