Director of Product Management
$225,000–$260,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Translate nTop's 2–5 year direction into concrete objectives, a resourcing plan, and a cadence for three technical product teams. Coach product management as a craft by sitting directly in roadmap and tradeoff decisions with your team. Set criteria for building versus partnering capabilities and own the seams between geometry modeling, simulation, and UX. Manage the UX design and research team directly while representing Product Platform on the company leadership team. Represent the product point of view that ties Modeling, Simulation & Optimization, and Distributed Computing together. Meet with customers to pressure-test direction against how design teams actually work.
Required Qualifications
- 8–10+ years in product management
- several of them spent coaching or managing other PMs directly
- A track record of turning a leadership-defined, multi-year vision into concrete objectives and a working system a team can execute against
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
- hands-on experience running CFD simulations
- experience working in CAD/PLM systems
- building simulation-driven engineering workflows
- Experience managing managers or leading a product organization spanning multiple teams
- managing or closely partnering with a UX design and research function
- Demonstrated use of data and structured frameworks to guide build-vs-partner investment decisions
- Strong communication across technical and executive audiences
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in aerospace, maritime, propulsion, industrial energy, or motorsports
- exposure to usage-based or concurrent licensing models
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant engineering discipline
- an MBA
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