Chief Product Officer

Chief Product Officer - What We Need Series B (~$15-20M revenue) pivoting from managed-service delivery to a platform sold through IRM operators such as Acuren and Applus+. The CPO owns the product that makes the pivot real, a roadmap spanning cloud inspection, continuous monitoring, and edge autonomy. Houston-based, with heavy travel across the Middle East, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Reports to the CEO; partners tightly with the CRO. Must-haves • Designs for non-technical field users - has shipped tools inspectors actually adopt in the field, not demos. Radical simplicity as a hard constraint; onboarding measured in hours. • Industrial inspection + APM fluency - Meridium, Maximo, SAP PM, AssetWise. Owns the integration-layer product requirements - defines the API, doesn't write it. • Active-learning / human-in-the-loop AI - can make unknown-defect handling experientially simple, not an ML lecture. • Two-sided platform builder - products serving a channel partner and an end beneficiary at once; multi-vertical (oil & gas, power, chemicals) through one channel. • Series B+ operator - stands up a product org from scratch, ships imperfect, scrappy without scaffolding. Holds product ground against a strong CRO without deferring or duplicating. Nice to have • IRM domain depth - knows how IRMs price work, deploy crews, run campaigns, and where their single-digit margins hurt. • Named-operator or regional exposure - direct experience with Acuren, Applus+ or Bureau Veritas, BP, CVX, OXY, etc and/or Middle East market familiarity. Dealbreakers • Background limited to consumer, fintech, or non-industrial software. • Experience only in large, structured organizations; first-time leader or individual contributor. • Designs from features or technical architecture rather than the end user. • Conflict style at either extreme: consensus-seeking to the point of paralysis, or unwilling to defer. Logistics Houston (relocation OK), hybrid • US citizen / green card, no visa sponsorship • 7-20 years PM at CPO/VP level •