Product Manager, Geotechnical

Role overview

Product development and strategy

• Establish and prioritize product requirements with clients and internal teams, covering sensor and imaging quality, structural picking, orientation pipelines, classification workflows, validation, and cadence.
• Own and evolve the geotechnical product canvas and roadmap, balancing near-term delivery with long-term competitive differentiation.
• Coordinate projects and priorities across the workstream; assess competitors, emerging trends, capability gaps, and resourcing needs.
• Prototype workflows for fracture and defect detection, RQD, fracture frequency, discontinuity orientation and roughness, and strength proxies.
• Guide prediction-model development with data scientists and software developers, assessing geotechnical plausibility, validation, and product readiness.
• Recruit and mentor team members, provide structured feedback, and support their growth.

Clients, projects, and validation

• Communicate the value of automated structural, strength, and rock-mass data for stability design, mine planning, ground-support optimization, and risk management.
• Support technical product discussions and reviews with client geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists.
• Build relationships with academic institutions and third parties working in automated characterization and rock mechanics.
• Scope geotechnical logging, rock-mass classification, and strength-prediction workflows; review client data and generated outputs for engineering sense and analytical integrity.
• Collaborate with geology, geometallurgy, and RMS product teams on geological, resource, and geotechnical domain models.
• Design or oversee validation studies from individual defect and discontinuity picks to drill-hole-scale domains and laboratory strength testing.
• Perform or supervise calibration and prediction models using core imaging and fused scanning data; ensure suitable inputs, interpretable behavior, and explicit uncertainty.

Required qualifications

• Degree in geological engineering, geotechnical engineering, engineering geology, rock mechanics, or a closely related field.
• Experience converting R&D work into commercial products and leading technical teams through ambiguous R&D-to-product translation.
• Project management, collaboration, prioritization, team-development, and mentoring skills.
• Track record of leading projects and teams in decisions under uncertainty, balancing validation, delivery, simplification, and product integrity.
• Strong working knowledge of geotechnical core logging and rock-mass characterization, including RQD, fracture frequency, discontinuity orientation, roughness and infill, weathering and alteration, and RMR, Q, and GSI.
• Experience comparing automated intact-core imaging and sensor measurements with manual records and laboratory measurements, including calibration and validation implications.
• Familiarity with UCS, point-load, Brazilian tensile, and triaxial tests and their limitations as validation data.
• Technical coding literacy to review notebooks and engage with modeling choices; existing networks in geotechnical, rock mechanics, or mining engineering.

Assets

• Professional registration such as P.Eng., P.Geo., or equivalent is an asset.
• Mining experience with a major producer or consulting company is an asset.
• Technical coding and model-building capabilities are an asset.

Travel

• Travel is required up to 20% of the time for client meetings and site visits.

Working at GeologicAI

• The company describes a casual work environment, flexible schedule, opportunities for remote work, and extended health and dental benefits.

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