Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Octave is a company that provides mission-critical software for asset lifecycle management. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for their Schematics solutions, focusing on Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams and related engineering disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Own the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for the Schematics portfolio (P&ID, instrumentation, and electrical), and align stakeholders around it
- Talk to users constantly - process, I&C, and electrical engineers, plus the EPCs and owner-operators who buy - to build first-hand understanding of their workflows, deliverables, and pain points
- Understand how schematic design connects to the broader plant lifecycle (engineering data, 3D/plant design, procurement, construction, and handover) and prioritize interoperability and data consistency accordingly
- Translate customer and market insight into clearly scoped problems, requirements, and success metrics
- Prioritize ruthlessly across three disciplines and competing opportunities, balancing customer value, business impact, technical effort, and risk
- Partner day-to-day with engineering and design to ship high-quality releases, making tradeoff decisions as scope and constraints evolve
- Ensure the product supports relevant engineering standards and conventions (e.g., ISA, IEC, and customer/industry-specific practices, CFIHOS, DEXPI) and the data integrity engineers depend on
- Define and track the metrics that matter (adoption, retention, engagement, revenue impact) and use them to guide decisions
- Work with marketing, sales, and customer success on positioning, launches, enablement, and feedback loops
- Monitor the competitive and technology landscape in plant design and engineering software, and turn it into a differentiated strategy
- Communicate direction, progress, and reasoning clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners
Skills
- 5+ years in product management, including experience owning a product or major area end-to-end
- A track record of shipping software products that solved real user problems and drove measurable outcomes
- Strong technical fluency - comfortable engaging engineers on architecture and tradeoffs, and able to understand technical, data-centric products deeply
- Ability to quickly build domain understanding of specialized engineering workflows and translate them into product decisions
- Excellent judgment on prioritization and scope, with the ability to say no gracefully and defend your reasoning with data and customer insight
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to make complex topics clear for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams without direct authority
- Experience with engineering, plant design, or CAD/CAE software - ideally P&ID, instrumentation, electrical design, or adjacent plant/process tooling
- Familiarity with process and plant industries (oil & gas, chemicals, power, pharmaceuticals, water/wastewater) and the EPC / owner-operator landscape
- Understanding of data-centric engineering design, engineering data management, and design-to-handover workflows
- Knowledge of relevant standards and conventions (e.g., ISA-5.1, IEC electrical standards, as well as CFIHOS, DEXPI, data exchange standards) and how they shape engineering deliverables
- Background in chemical, process, electrical, instrumentation, or a related engineering field
- Experience with usage analytics, experimentation, and quantitative decision-making
Benefits
- Workplace Type: Remote
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