Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Octave is a company that provides mission-critical software to empower organizations in making informed decisions across the asset lifecycle. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the Tempo Operations Management product team, focusing on product management, customer engagement, and sales enablement.
Responsibilities
- Serve as Operations Management subject matter expert to support engineering team, marketing, field sales, partners, and customers
- Plan and own the product roadmap and support the release plan based upon guidance from market, customers and competitive positioning
- Define and champion the product vision and roadmap, translating market insights and strategic objectives into clear feature direction for engineering teams
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, ensuring engineering efforts are continuously aligned with strategic market outcomes
- Engage with engineering team to support development process to ensure market problems are appropriately addressed by capabilities delivered
- Measure product performance & drive improvement programs for usage, improved user experience, operating costs and more efficient product ops
- Drive business outcomes of improved win rates, better quality and larger pipelines and improving revenue and investment profiles
- Provide cross functional team leadership by working with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer support to ensure all teams are aligned with the product’s goals
- Ensure the product meets all quality standards, internal and external regulatory requirements by setting and measuring key metrics
- Manage User forums and Strategic steering board accountabilities for product segments and quarterly communication to ensure continuous improvement and implementation of customer feedback
- Guide enhancement request process and execute new feature ramp-up engagements to ensure continuous product innovation
- Research and assess advanced analytical approaches leveraging AI to advance strategic product initiatives
- Provide SME support to sales and technical enablement to ensure field teams are fully trained in product capabilities
- Contribute to creation of product marketing materials, such as brochures, videos, and other media
- Support and/or lead as a Subject matter expert and thought leader in customer-facing webinars and other external presentations
- Engage with marketing and strategy team in the execution of product customer advocacy program
- Engage with analysts and analyst relations to provide Brand positioning and extract market movements
Skills
- 10 years in frontline operational roles OR 3 years in an operational leadership role in an industrial facility. Additional consideration for previous role as plant manager, operations manager, superintendent or supervisory roles in operations or production
- Engineering degree in Chemical engineering, process engineering or process safety OR equivalent industrial experience
- Experience of industrial regulations, regulatory frameworks and recommended practices around Process safety management, Control of work, Management of change and Critical communications
- Strong business analysis skills – requirements gathering, documentation (requirements and technical), process mapping, etc
- Excellent communication, problem solving and leadership skills
- Experience managing multiple product solutions within broader solution portfolio
- Membership in professional bodies with leadership or technical committee roles considered a plus
- Previous product management experience or product owner roles for industrial technology considered a plus
- Familiarity with cloud-based deployment models and subscription-based entitlement models
- Familiarity with advanced analytical techniques including machine learning, automated text classification and large language models
- Familiarity with The Pragmatic Framework for product management (preferably certified) or similar product management frameworks
- Familiarity with AI tools especially Claude and Copilot
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