Product Director, Knowledge Graph

Altana is the world’s first Value Chain Management System, a collaborative, public-private network that enables customers to take command of their extended supplier and distribution networks from raw material origins to the sale of finished products. By applying artificial intelligence to the world’s largest body of supply chain data, Altana reveals these previously opaque global networks and powers workflows across them. Customers like Boston Scientific, L.L.Bean, Maersk, US Customs and Border Protection, and the UK Department of Business and Trade use Altana to build secure, resilient, efficient, and sustainable global value chains.

We have built a fundamental understanding of how the world’s economy works, and the implications for global resiliency, sustainability and opportunity are enormous. Backed by leading investors and used by the world’s most important organizations, Altana’s mission is to power a new era of globalization organized around trusted value chain networks.

This is a lofty mission, and our success depends on building a diverse, global team and creating an environment in which they can thrive. We operate in accordance with our values: we embrace reality as we work to change it; we focus on value creation, not capture; we foster diversity and embrace difference; and, we go on offense. When you join Altana, you’ll be joining a vibrant, collaborative team working together to solve complex problems with the potential for global societal impact.  

The Opportunity at Altana

As the Director of Graph Product Management at Altana you will be responsible for building and delivering a living data asset that codifies, describes, and visualizes the global physical economy, powers downstream AI, and enables customers across national security, trade compliance, business resiliency, carbon accounting, and financial services to see, focus, and act on their value chains using the Altana platform. You’ll be responsible for deeply understanding and evolving the technical platform infrastructure and data model that feeds the entire value chain management product experience and offering. 

You will own a strategic roadmap of data acquisition and origination, including overseeing data partnerships. You will define and drive the strategy and execution of derived data learnings from third-party and first-party customer data across our federated data and AI platform. 

You will collaborate with a world-class team of engineers, product managers, designers, researchers, data scientists, and implementation teams to synthesize a cohesive product experience and execution plan that drives value chain management outcomes for customers. As a senior member of the product team, this role will provide an incredible opportunity to interface with the founders, executives, and go-to-market teams to interact with our customers and evangelize our product vision and roadmap.

You Will

• In collaboration with fellow product managers, engineering, AI/ML, and commercial teams, work to develop the overall product strategy, product roadmap, and feature specifications for Altana’s graph, which is the technical infrastructure and data model that feeds the entire value chain management product experience and offering. This includes laying the foundations of a competitively differentiated graph in anticipation of future evolutions.
• Partner with ML, data operations, engineering, and application product managers to design knowledge graph enrichments and data quality improvements through operations on customer data and user actions across the platform.
• Set data quality, coverage, and reliability standards to meet customer needs across the platform.
• Build and manage a team to oversee data ontologies, data partnership business development and relationship management, and data origination.
• Work closely with our commercial and product management and marketing teams to build our graph product value propositions in support of go-to-market plans; build a deep understanding of our market trends, partner ecosystem, and competitive landscape.
• Connect the dots between underlying technical platform and data infrastructure and models with customer facing experiences through collaboration with product design, engineering, internal subject matter experts, and external customers.
• Become the go-to expert for the future of knowledge graphs in the context of global supply chains and physical commerce.

About You

• 10+ years of technical product management and/or data product experience in a hedge fund, data business, or technology company, with a strong preference for experience  working closely with enterprise customers, complex user workflows, and intricate business requirements.
• Fluency across macroeconomics and a range of business domains that cover the world’s physical economy.
• Significant experience with tracking, navigating, and translating vision and mission through to customer needs and outcomes through to development priorities for a platform and data infrastructure and data model team and product. 
• Comfortable and excited to build, grow, and evolve new teams and capabilities within a fast moving start-up environment. 
• Must have experience deeply understanding customer segments, needs, and solution scenarios to inform development planning and prioritization with software engineering and ML teams. 
• Must have deep experience with data-based platforms, and an understanding of modern data infrastructures.
• High attention to detail and laser focused on accuracy, freshness, completeness and richness of data feeding application products that ultimately meet customer needs.
• Entrepreneurial sense of ownership for the success of the technology infrastructure and data models powering the value management chain system, with full ownership and accountability of internal and customer outcomes depending on the platform, data, and models.
• A data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly and concisely communicate complex topics to diverse stakeholders (product, design, engineers, customers, commercial teams etc.) in written and verbal form.

This role is based in New York, NY or San Francisco, CA and candidates must be within commuting distance from our Brooklyn or San Francisco offices.

Why it’s great to work at Altana

• We love to collaborate, and we win as a team!
• We are committed to engineering excellence
• We value personal and professional development
• We learn from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• We impact the world, from enabling developing countries to identifying drug traffickers

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.