Principal Product Manager

Octave is a company that provides mission-critical software to empower organizations in managing their asset lifecycle. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead their Tempo Operations Management product team, focusing on product management, customer engagement, and sales/marketing enablement. The role involves engaging with internal stakeholders and customers to deliver a market-leading operations management solution.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• Experience managing multiple product solutions within broader solution portfolio
• Familiarity with The Pragmatic Framework for product management (preferably certified) or similar product management frameworks
• Familiarity with AI tools especially Claude and Copilot