Senior Product Manager, Transportation & Logistics
Pleasanton, California, United States. Posted 9 months ago
The role
The Senior Product Manager will own the vision, roadmap, and priorities for shipment visibility, ETA prediction, carrier management, load optimization, and global trade compliance on the Avathon platform. This role involves defining requirements across the shipment lifecycle and turning customer deployment requests into reusable product requirements.
What you will do
- Own the vision, roadmap and priorities for shipment visibility, ETA prediction, carrier management, load optimization and global trade compliance
- Decide what is core product, what is a connector and what stays as customer configuration
- Define how logistics connects to Planning, PLM and asset maintenance on the platform
- Define requirements across the shipment lifecycle: booking, tendering, tracking, proof of delivery and freight audit
- Own carrier onboarding, rating and routing, and FTL/LTL load optimization across road, rail, ocean and air
- Drive EDI and carrier API integrations and carrier collaboration workflows
- Define trade compliance features: HTS classification, duty and tariff calculation, denied party screening, export controls, FTA qualification and duty drawback
- Spend real time with logistics, transportation and trade compliance teams at customer sites
- Turn requests from deployments into reusable product requirements
- Write clear requirements and acceptance criteria and run release reviews with the engineering lead
Required qualifications
- 8+ years in product management
- At least 4 years owning a transportation, logistics, visibility or trade management product
- Experience at a vendor such as Oracle (OTM or GTM), Blue Yonder, Manhattan Associates, SAP TM, e2open, Descartes, project44 or FourKites, or leading logistics systems at a large manufacturer
- Deep understanding of TMS, shipment lifecycle management, carrier operations and multimodal freight
- Working knowledge of EDI and logistics data exchange and how shipment data flows into ERP and MES
- Experience shipping AI or ML driven features such as predictive ETA, anomaly detection or route optimization
- Strong written communication and the ability to work across engineering, sales and customers
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain or a related field
Nice to have
- agentic logistics workflows
- Knowledge of global trade compliance (HTS, denied party screening, export controls, FTA, duty drawback)
- MBA or MS
About the company
Avathon is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, helping customers across heavy industries accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations. The platform uses a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation to power AI-driven applications in asset performance management, supply chain intelligence, visual AI, and global trade management.