Vice President of Technical Product

AI can be a powerful tool for good in the world – at Altana we apply AI to the world’s largest organized body of supply chain data to power a more resilient, more secure, and more sustainable model of global commerce. Our customers connect to the Altana network to build resilience for critical industries and infrastructure, automate and safeguard cross-border trade, transform insurance underwriting, protect national security, combat modern slave labor, disrupt fentanyl trafficking, and ensure that their products are sustainable.

Altana is backed by leading investors and used by the world’s most important organizations, including Lloyd’s, Maersk, multiple government agencies across the US, UK, EU, Singapore, and Australia, General Atomics, Boston Scientific, and more. We are building a global platform connecting the public and private sectors into an AI-powered network for building trusted supply chains. We operate in accordance with our values: we focus on value creation, not capture; we foster diversity and embrace difference; we embrace reality; we get things done; we amaze our clients. 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.  You’ll be responsible for the product management of the horizontal capabilities which power our applications spanning users in  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 initially report to the CEO of Altana until such time as a Chief Product Officer is hired.

Some key platform surface areas under your stewardship include:

• Federated Data Platform and Knowledge Graph: Altana has pioneered a unique hub-and-spoke federated data platform that connects customer data securely and privately with Altana’s knowledge graph - the world’s most comprehensive map of the global supply chain. We deliver the graph, and match customer data to the graph, across federated deployments that include multiple cloud providers, classified environments, and multiple geographies.
• Machine Learning Services:  You’ll help to apply the latest artificial intelligence technologies to a massive, globally-unique dataset in combination with customer data. You will oversee the product strategy for how we apply AI consistently and efficiently across our product surface areas, and engage in how our product feedback loop creates a differential dataset. 
• Search and Network Analysis: You will deliver a unified set of APIs and services that enable our customers to find what they are looking for in the graph, match and manage their data in the graph, and receive insights from the combined data. You will serve some of the latest technologies across LLMs, graph neural networks, and agentic AI to help our customers get to insights and to answers. 
• Customer Data Management and Permissioning: Altana works with many of the world’s most important government agencies, enterprises, and service providers. They have complex requirements for role-based access controls, data and feature entitlements, and use case-sensitive collaboration authorizations. You will oversee the system-level design and delivery of data onboarding and curation, user registries and permissioning, audit logs, and security services that enable Altana products to serve sensitive, critical missions across national security, global trade, financial services underwriting, compliance, and more.
• Collaboration Services: You will be responsible for the core tools and systems for collaboration across Altana’s platform: the systems for claiming and managing organizational profiles and managing user registries, the systems for communicating and linking data across organizations and their systems of record, and the commenting and chat functions that enable users to connect with each other both within an organization and across organizations. You will work with Altana’s product line managers and designers to build delightful, intuitive, and engaging collaboration functionality that can be embedded across workflows and user experiences.

Your Responsibilities

• 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.

About You

• 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.  

US Salary Range and Benefits

$200,000 - $280,000 USD

The salary range, to the extent specified for this role, is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position.  The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors, including, but not limited to, work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role. Additionally, Altana offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Flexible Time Off: Altana operates with a Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy that gives you agency over your own time off so you can maximize your work-life balance.
• Parental Leave: We offer industry leading Paid Parental Leave (PPL), providing 14 weeks of leave for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents and up to 26 weeks of leave for birthing parents, all paid at 100% of your base salary.
• Health Benefits: We have a full suite of medical, vision, and dental benefits with generous employer contributions, designed to give you flexibility and choice for your individual health situation. Our high deductible health plan is 100% employer paid for employees and supplemented with an employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA). There is also a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.
• Supplemental Benefits: Altana provides life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage, all at no cost to you, so you know that you and your loved ones are covered in case of an emergency.
• 401(k) Savings: Save for and invest in your future using our Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
• Commuter Benefits: Save money on your commute by setting aside pre-tax funds for public transit or parking!
• Wellness: Because we value mental and emotional health, every Altana employee has access to a free premium subscription to Calm, the #1 app for meditation, sleep, and mindfulness.
• Pet Insurance: Pets are family too! Keep them healthy with Wishbone insurance and / or our Total Pet vet service and telehealth discount plan.
• Employee Assistance Program: Free access to confidential personal support.
• Dependent Care FSA: You will have access to a Dependent Care FSA, which allows you to set aside pre-tax funds for childcare expenses

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

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.

Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.