Principal Product Manager, Altana
Supply Chain Intelligence
$200-255k
Plus discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
Supply chain visibility platform
Job no longer available
Supply chain visibility platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$200-255k
Plus discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
201-500 employees
Company mission
Altana AI's mission is to improve global commerce.
Role
Who you are
- You've worked on products where the core challenge was making complex, high-dimensional data explorable and actionable for people who aren't analysts or engineers. You have real opinions about the right AI-patterns to surface meaningful insights to users
- Altana is defining a new way of working in the trade space. The problems we solve are multi-dimensional, across technology, policy, and user experience. You find working on a complex problem space with no clear right answer to be energizing
- You come from a startup where you owned problems end to end. You default to prototypes and not product specs. You're more interested in learning fast than being right the first time
- You don't add AI to existing workflows. You design workflows differently because AI exists. You build and prototype with AI tools regularly. You have side projects that demonstrate this
- You can explain a data model to a compliance manager and a compliance workflow to an engineer. You write well. You bring people along without over-explaining
- Global trade is complex and consequential. You don't need to come from the domain, but you need to be the kind of person who gets energized by learning it deeply and building products that make it accessible
- 8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time at a high-growth, startup delivering hosted solutions to a wide variety of user personas
- Track record of building data-intensive products: analytics platforms, business. intelligence tools, compliance or risk management software, or similar insight-driven solutions
- Demonstrated AI/ML product experience. You've shipped AI-powered features with measurable results that connect them to customer value. Bonus if you have ML product management experience
- Strong prototyping skills. Comfortable using AI tools, design tools, or code to rapidly test ideas before production investment. Experience using tools to accelerate product development velocity and increase value delivered to customers
- Technical degree (CS, engineering, or quantitative discipline) is a plus
- Familiarity with global trade, supply chain, customs, or regulatory compliance is a meaningful plus, but a fast learner with the right product instincts matters more than domain tenure
What the job involves
- When a new tariff hits, a regulation changes, or a geopolitical crisis reshapes supply chains, companies scramble to understand their exposure and what to do next. Supply chains are vast, opaque, and shaped by complex regulations
- The data needed to act is scattered across systems and buried in value chains that span dozens of countries and hundreds of suppliers. Altana maps these supply chains into a global network, giving companies multi-tier visibility they've never had before
- You will own turning that visibility into prioritized action for importers, logistics service providers, and compliance teams. Help users answer questions like:
- What's the impact of a new tariff on my business?
- How do I ensure my supply chain is free from forced labor?
- Where am I concentrated on a single supplier or region, and what's my contingency?
- This is the product that makes Altana's network intelligence indispensable. You'll define how customers explore and act on supply chain data across use cases: forced labor, critical minerals, foreign ownership, tariff exposure, and more
- You'll design AI-native workflows, build generalizable analytical patterns, and create a bridge between insight and action. The role spans product strategy, complex data modeling, and modern AI
- Engage directly with supply chain managers, importers, brokers, and logistics service providers. Understand how they triage, prioritize, and act on supply chain risks today, where they go off-platform, and where the value proposition needs to be sharper
- Own the product experience for how non-technical domain experts (trade compliance managers, risk analysts, procurement teams, customs brokers) explore and act on supply chain data
- Identify where AI transforms the experience: surfacing highest-priority items and acting, explaining why a risk matters, recommending next actions, generating compliance narratives, enabling natural-language data exploration
- Prototype fast and iterate based on customer feedback. Bring in agentic workflows to drive customer value: agents that monitor supplier networks for changes, flag emerging risks, or draft remediation plans a user reviews rather than builds from scratch
- Define how supply chain intelligence connects to the broader Altana product ecosystem: opportunity identification, trade compliance workflows (classification, country of origin, duty calculation), scenario modeling, and supplier collaboration
- Own the boundary between analysis and action. Make the transition from understanding a risk to resolving it seamless. Partner with PMs across the portfolio so insights flow into actions and users never re-enter context
Our take
Altana’s platform provides a shared source of truth for the global supply chain. The idea is that this will help businesses and governing powers optimize global commerce which, over the past few years, has shot up on the list of international priorities. With three quarters of businesses reporting recent supply chain disruptions, and governments increasingly concerned with mitigating security threats, data-driven visibility is more sought after than ever before.
Crucially, the platform doesn’t require data sharing to create global intelligence, instead using a federated machine learning approach. This is a nut many big-data companies have been trying to crack, and Altana’s success has attracted interest from top-tier investors like Google Ventures and Floating Point alongside contracts with the UK Department of Business & Trade. A number of other headline enterprises and government agencies are already on the company's customer roster.
With companies looking to recoup some of the $4T reportedly lost in supply chain disruptions over recent years, and the push for global databases getting stronger, logistics startups are having a fruitful investment period. Altana is crafting a remarkable product at a highly marketable time, and with partnerships with the likes of Maersk, it has had good uptake so far. Backed by substantial funding, Altana is set for a strong few years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$200m
SERIES C
Oct 2022
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $323.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive base salary: We offer competitive base salaries to recognize the incredible work our employees do.
- Learning & development: We support your development through regular performance check-ins and offer financial support for Learning and Development initiatives.
- Health benefits: We offer full global benefits, including a 100% employer-paid plan and tax-advantaged HSA and FSA options in the US.
- Paid time off: We provide a generous PTO policy, including paid sick time, to support your well-being in and out of the office.
- Equity program: We instill ownership by offering competitive new hire equity grants, plus the opportunity to gain more equity along the way.
- Parental leave: We offer up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave to support you and your family.
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Raphael Tehranian
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously an analyst with J P Morgan, pivoting to engagement at Cleantech Group and then corporate tech strategy with Suncor Energy. After a spell as an investor at Fuller Smith, spent time with global supply chain analytics company Panjiva as a management advisor.
Peter Swartz
(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)An MIT grad in political science who went on to work as Head of Data Science at Panjiva.
Evan Smith
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Yale economics graduate with experience in renewables at Imperium Renewables and Verno Systems, the latter of which they co-founded. Served as a partner at Fuller Smith, before moving on to work in a management advisor role at Panjiva.
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