Director, Product Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assume responsibility for product management from the founding PM and develop it into a comprehensive product function.

• Establish hiring strategies, define role specifications, and implement practices for discovery, prioritization, and documentation.

• Directly oversee the Feanix data platform, which includes APIs, data products, contracts, and abstractions.

• Streamline farm onboarding processes to enhance speed and flexibility in collaboration with Farm Success and Farm Ops.

• Recruit and nurture PMs as engineering teams are formed, aiming for 2–3 direct reports within the next 12 months.

• Collaborate with the CEO and CTO to contribute to product strategy.

• Manage the product roadmap and prioritization through the delivery of shipped products.

• Operate the platform as a product, evaluating adoption and friction while prioritizing based on farm value.

• Connect legacy dairy management systems with modern product solutions.

• Participate in farm visits to link platform decisions with the customer experience.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of product management experience, including the mentorship and development of PMs.

• Ideally, have experience in both startup environments and mid-sized companies with structured product practices.

• Proven success in establishing product processes, including setting up a product function or defining product methodologies as the first PM.

• Experience as a PM for data platforms, APIs, or infrastructure products aimed at serving engineers and internal teams.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver business value from intricate data types, such as genomics, sensor data, or extensive real-world datasets.

• Possess a forward-thinking vision for product management in an agentic, LLM-driven landscape.

• Regularly utilize LLMs, agents, and automation, with tangible projects developed using these technologies.

• Capable of translating technical platform functionalities into business and customer benefits.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Comfortable operating in a player-coach capacity.

• Willingness to travel 20–25% of the time, primarily to locations in the western U.S., customer sites, and headquarters.

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

• Preferred: experience with decision platforms or decision-support products.

• Preferred: familiarity with genomics or bioinformatics.

• Preferred: experience in the dairy industry or broader agricultural sectors.

• Preferred: experience in extending internal platforms to external consumers via partner APIs or integrations.

• Preferred: foundational knowledge in statistics and machine learning.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical coverage

• Dental coverage

• Vision coverage

• Retirement savings support through CalSavers for employees based in California

• Flexible paid time off

• Paid parental leave, which includes up to four weeks of paid leave and/or coordination of supplemental pay with applicable state benefits

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment for the majority of roles