Senior Product Manager, Platform

Product Strategy and Roadmap

Own the vision, roadmap and priorities for ingestion and connectors, ontology and knowledge graph, Model Hub and the agent layer

Know the market. Understand Palantir Foundry and AIP, C3 AI, Databricks, Cognite and the hyperscaler AI platforms, and be clear on where Avathon wins in industrial settings

Own connector prioritization across OT protocols (OPC-UA, DNP3, MQTT, historians) and IT systems (SAP, Oracle and others)

Define the platform contracts that Planning, Logistics, PLM, asset performance and vision applications build on

Customer and Internal Discovery

Treat application teams, forward deployed engineers and partners as platform customers and understand what slows them down

Work with customers on ontology discovery and on how their data should be modeled

Work with security and cloud operations on deployment models: SaaS, customer cloud, on-premise and air-gapped edge

Track platform adoption and value, such as time to first data, connector reuse and time to deploy a model

Execution

Write clear requirements and acceptance criteria for platform engineering and AI science

Run sprint planning and release reviews with the engineering lead

Make trade-offs between platform investment and near-term customer needs, and communicate them clearly

Build developer documentation, release notes and enablement for internal teams and partners

8+ years in product management, with at least 4 years owning a data, ML, developer or platform product

Experience at Palantir, C3 AI, Databricks, Snowflake, Cognite, or a hyperscaler AI or data platform team (Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft) is a strong plus

Deep understanding of data integration, data modeling and ontologies, and ML or LLM operations

Exposure to industrial data (OT systems, historians, SCADA, ERP) is a strong plus

Technical enough to go deep with platform engineers on APIs, data models and architecture

Strong written communication. You can explain a platform decision to an engineer and to a customer executive

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. MS or MBA is a plus

Compensation

Pay Range: $140k - $180k salary annually. Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Location: This role is not remote. Candidates must be based in the Bay Area, CA and are expected to report to our Pleasanton office 5 days a week.

Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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