About the Role:The Product Manager will report directly to the CEO, and is responsible for the outcome of Manufacturing OS, Heliux's manufacturing execution system:
- Partner closely with our customers' manufacturing engineering and production organizations to gain a continuous understanding of their work-the good, the bad, the ugly.
- Anticipate the capabilities that our customers need and translate them into clearly-defined product requirements that drive our design and engineering work.
- Own end-to-end roadmap for Manufacturing OS, including priorities, development schedule, and release sequencing.
- Author release communications for both existing customers and prospects, across every channel.
- Work with Product Managers across Heliux to ensure the platform is greater than the sum of its modules.
About You:- Proven experience as a manufacturing engineering leader supporting operations that ship complex hardware systems that are used in the field (i.e., not science projects).
- Deep familiarity with (and disdain for) the legacy tools used by hardware engineers, such as CAD, PDM, PLM, ERP, MES, etc.
- Proven systems thinker who finds the root problem rather than the requested feature and converts it into clear product requirements.
- Willingness to be customer-facing-from the sales process, through deployment, and post-go-live.
Technical Environment:- Backend: Rust, Python, high-performance backend services, APIs, data-intensive systems.
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, real-time interfaces, WebSockets, Server-Sent Events (SSE).
- Systems/Integrations: C#, Electron
- Distributed Systems & Orchestration: durable workflow execution, Temporal, event-driven architectures, distributed systems
- Infrastructure: Terraform, AWS, Bedrock, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
- Security/Compliance: CMMC, FedRAMP, ITAR
What We Offer:- Competitive compensation package, including company equity.
- Healthcare coverage across medical, dental, and vision.
- Company-provided lunch and dinner.
- Unlimited PTO.
