Director, Product Management, Asset Performance

C3 AI is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director, Product Management to lead our product management team for Asset Performance solutions. In today's industrial landscape, organizations struggle with unplanned downtime, inefficiencies, and high maintenance costs due to outdated, reactive operations. C3 AI Asset Performance Applications apply AI-driven predictive maintenance, process optimization, and failure mode analysis, enabling enterprises to take proactive action to maximize value. The C3 Agentic AI Platform integrates real-time sensor data, asset operational data, machine learning models, and generative AI insights to help customers improve uptime, optimize maintenance, and drive operational excellence. The Director, Product Management role is critical in shaping the future of AI-powered solutions, defining the product roadmap, and driving market leadership in this rapidly evolving space.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of product managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Interact with customers and market thought leaders to develop a deep understanding of enterprise business problems and define product requirements and best practices for asset performance solutions.
• Set strategic direction and priorities for your products.
• Define and document business processes impacted by your products.
• Author product specifications, including use cases, activity flow diagrams, screen mockups, and identification of data sources, analytics, reporting, and integration requirements.
• Write detailed Market Requirements Documents for product capabilities and features, identifying innovative ideas to incorporate into the product roadmap.
• Build and evaluate business cases to support product investment decisions.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, and other support teams such as user experience, QA, and documentation to create exceptional solutions.
• Work together with Marketing, Sales, Professional Services, and Support to promote the delivery of product features through training initiatives, documentation efforts, and customer/analyst demonstrations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required from a 4-year university, with a focus on science, technology, engineering, math, or similar.
• M.B.A degree preferred.
• At least 8 years of experience delivering compelling, scalable systems.
• At least 5 years of leadership experience with product, architecture, and technology implementation.
• 3-5 years of experience in developing asset performance software solutions.
• Demonstrated success in defining and launching enterprise software products.
• Experience in writing logical, detailed, and complete product requirements and functional specifications.
• Proven ability to develop and effectively communicate a product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Ability to translate strategy into tactical plans.
• Self-starter with entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong business acumen, quantitative, and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Knowledgeable in technology, software architecture, and software as a service (SaaS) delivery models.
• Outstanding team player with the ability to coordinate people and activities across multiple functional areas.
• Knowledge and experience in agile software development processes.
• Experience in product design and user experience design preferred.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.