Vice President of Technical Product

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 powers a new era of globalization founded on a shared source of truth on the global supply chain.

This is a lofty mission, and our success depends on building a diverse, global team and fostering an environment in which it 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

Altana is looking for an entrepreneurial, hands-on, and mission-driven VP of Technical Product Management to lead the APIs, platform services, and data management capabilities that power our products and those of third party developers. You will oversee a federated data management, knowledge graph, AI, and collaboration technology stack that connects and manages the world’s largest supply chain data network, and powers collaborative workflows across that network, with users spanning government, enterprise, logistics, and financial services. Your customers are Altana’s customer-facing applications and their end-user requirements, as well as third party applications and their developers who are building on the Altana platform. 

In this leadership role, you will oversee a team of technical product managers. You will partner with Altana’s CTO, engineering and AI leadership, and the product line managers and designers overseeing Altana’s front-end product lines. You will collaborate with product marketing to communicate technical concepts and value propositions to our customers, manage API documentation, and maintain internal documentation and knowledgebases for the benefit of Altana’s developers, product managers, designers. 

You Will

• Partner with the founders and the CTO to both execute and advance the product vision and strategy.
• Own and execute the roadmap for Altana’s platform capabilities and services.
• Manage a team of Technical Product Managers and collaborate with the Product Line Managers and Designers in the Product Organization to ensure that the platform delivers unified, scalable, and stable APIs and services that meet our product requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering, commercial teams, internal subject matter experts and external customers to translate market, product, and workflow requirements into requirements for shared platform services. 
• Maintain the documentation and knowledge management systems to enable Altana PMs, designers, and developers to build on the Altana platform. Partner with Product Marketing to enable third-party developers to build on Altana.. 

You Have

• Significant experience (generally 10+years) as a technology and/or product leader in a complex B2B space with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience building and managing high performing teams in a matrixed environment.
• Entrepreneurial drive and spirit to deliver business results with full ownership and accountability of outcomes. You have gone from zero to one, and you have built for scale.
• Demonstrated success identifying commonalities across seemingly disparate user groups and workflows, and synthesizing shared services and experiences.
• Business-driven with a passion for technology - you crave identifying, defining, and solving user challenges through sophisticated technology delivered in intuitive user experiences.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly and concisely communicate complex topics to diverse stakeholders (engineers, customers, etc.) in written and verbal form.
• Experience in working closely with enterprise customers, complex user workflows, and intricate business requirements.

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.