Product Director, Value Chain Management Compliance and ESG

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

The Product team is looking for a Director of Product Management to lead the product and design efforts for our Value Chain Compliance Management System for private sector global enterprise customers. This role encompasses not only compliance with regulations around Forced Labor and Restricted Parties but also compliance with emerging ESG regulations such as deforestation (EUDR), carbon (CBAM), and more comprehensive sustainability directives such as CSRD and CS3D and beyond. 

Building on top of the backbone of Altana’s world class data asset and global Value Chain Management System, this leader will be empowered to work across a diverse set of clients to understand the full scope of their compliance needs and priorities and to leverage the Altana data and technology stack and network ecosystem to bring to market a suite of product offerings. 

This role encompasses three main directives: 

1. Customer-centric product line solutioning: You are building not a single standalone product offering but a suite of product offerings to support multiple customers for multiple regulations on top of a unified data and technology platform. You will be empowered to deeply understand the needs landscape as well as the competitive market and scope end-to-end solutions that include build, buy, partner assessments and recommendations. Your job is to deliver end-to-end solutions for our customers leveraging Altana’s core capabilities across data and value chain creation and build net new capabilities in value chain management for global compliance requirements for global enterprises.

1. Supported decision-making with AI-driven insights:  In order to deliver new value chain management capabilities you will collaborate with a world class Machine Learning team and the Director of Graph PM who are building and deploying models to run on top of the existing core data platform that stitches together Altana proprietary data and customer proprietary data into a bespoke global value chain for each customer. Your job will be to deliver tailored intelligence, such as prioritization of risks and opportunities by things like severity and business impact, across compliance and environmental requirements for a range of users working off of a shared source of truth. You’ll design user interactions that drive model learning loops and enable individual company decision making with real-world mission impact across the shared global network. 

1. Collaborative workflows to take action: Because individual value chains are specific to each customer but the global network of value chains is highly overlapping and connected, especially within and across similar and related industries, you will also partner with our Director of Collaboration PM to establish user network effect through collaborative workflows that enable users to take actions to resolve prioritized risks. These collaborative workflows will be tied directly to the suite of product offerings you are building for compliance with existing regulations such as Force Labor (UFLPA) and Restricted Parties and emerging ESG regulations such as deforestation (EUDR), carbon (CBAM), and more comprehensive sustainability directives such as CSRD and CS3D and beyond. When we say end-to-end solutions this includes the ability for users to work together on a supply chain common operating picture with shared intelligence that enables them to take action on that visibility and intelligence through workflows that help them to manage and govern their global, multi-tier value chain networks.

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.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee processes for user and customer research in order to deeply understand customer needs and preferences across our target customer segments in the value chain compliance management space. 
• Build a deep understanding of market trends, partner ecosystem, and competitive landscape so that you go in wide eyes open with regard to how to effectively capture the value chain compliance market with the broad spectrum of build, buy, partner options at your fingertips. 
• In collaboration with product, engineering, and commercial teams, work to develop the overall product strategy, product roadmap, and feature specifications for Altana’s Value Chain Management Compliance offering including how to phase emerging ESG compliance offerings and the best approach for Altana to quickly and effectively bring end-to-end solutions to market that leverage Altana’s core data and technology stack and network ecosystem assets. 
• Collaborate with the larger product management and product design team, engineering and Machine Learnings teams, internal subject matter experts, and external customers to scope, design, test, and deliver sticky product offerings that create net new value to customers and the market.
• Work closely with Product Marketing and commercial team to build out go-to-market and launch plans and positioning to capture the market opportunity. 

About You

• Significant experience (generally 10+years) as a product manager in a complex enterprise b2b space with multiple product offerings built on a single technology and data platform. Significant experience with tracking, navigating, and translating vision and mission through to customer needs and outcomes through to development priorities for a suite of product offerings. 
• Entrepreneurial approach to  product management, including comfort and desire to take full ownership and accountability for aligning  successful customer outcomes with successful business outcomes for Altana.
• Comfortable and excited to build, grow, and evolve new teams and capabilities within a fast moving start-up environment. 
• Demonstrated success identifying commonalities and patterns across potentially  disparate and conflicting user needs and developing compelling product solutions and transformative experiences that deliver deep value.
• Business-driven with a passion for technology - you crave identifying, defining, and solving customer needs through sophisticated technology delivered in intuitive user experiences.
• 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 and candidates must be within commuting distance from our Brooklyn office.  

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.