Principal Product Manager, Altana
Public Sector
$200-255k
Supply chain visibility platform
Open for applications
Supply chain visibility platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-255k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Altana AI's mission is to improve global commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Mission Alignment Expert: You’ve worked directly with engineering teams to translate high-level government policy into concrete product features
- UX-Centric Technicality: You understand the "plumbing" (APIs, EDI, ETL/ELT, JSON), but you are obsessed with the user experience. You hate clunky integration projects and strive to make user experiences feel like magic, working with your design partners
- Builder: You don’t just write requirements; you define system interfaces of the solution alongside engineering. You have the courage to roll up your sleeves and define API specs and data schemas, especially as it relates to the user experience
- Network Thinker: You understand that trade doesn’t work in isolation—it’s inherently a network system. You are excited about using Graph Technology and AI to uncover hidden connections and insights
- Integration Product Expert: You have 7+ years of Product Management experience, ideally with a deep understanding of integration between complex systems
- Domain Authority: You have 8+ years of experience in Trade Compliance, Customs Enforcement, or Border Security Technology. You know how a port operates. You understand the difference between a Manifest and an Entry Summary
- Security Clearable: Due to the nature of our government work, eligibility for a security clearance (US or UK) is required. Candidates with a prior successful Customs and Border Protection background investigation are preferred
- This role can be based in any of our US Altana hub locations, with hybrid work flexibility: Brooklyn, NY, Washington, DC, Boston, MA, or San Francisco, CA
What the job involves
- As a Principal Product Manager for Public Sector, you will be the owner defining strategy/product vision through feature definition and roadmap prioritization
- You’ll work closely with marketing and finance teams for positioning, naming, GTM/adoption, and financial metrics
- We are looking for an experienced product leader who is passionate about deeply understanding ambiguous customer problems, with demonstrated success working with engineering to deliver solutions, and translating them into disruptive, successful products that delight customers
- As a Principal Product Manager with a focus on Public Sector, you are defining the link between our customers' efforts to improve enforcement efficiency and streamline the shipment of goods with the Altana product network
- Your mission is to accelerate our customers' time-to-mission-outcome
- You will deeply understand customer IT, data, and security needs to architect and build robust, scalable products that help them solve their most pressing trade-related challenges
- For government customers, law enforcement across global supply chains presents a daunting challenge
- Your mission is to make it easier for these customers to receive supply chain information and conduct continuous compliance monitoring, meeting the demands of the new trade environment
- With Altana Product Passports, regulatory agencies can achieve faster approvals, fewer delays, and focus their enforcement efforts
- You will own the end-to-end journey: from the moment a trusted business submits their Altana Product Passport, to AI-powered screening of transactions for risks, to government-to-business collaboration to investigate and clear risks in companies’ supply chains
- As a key technical partner for the customer, your responsibilities will fall into three primary areas:
- Product Passports (Government View): Define how governments consume and validate Altana Product Passports. You will build the "Pre-Clearance" infrastructure that allows trusted traders to submit supply chain visibility data in exchange for expedited treatment and reduced inspections
- Partner Ecosystem and Integration Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for how the product passports interact with customs and other government systems. Identify the most critical systems our customers use and lead the development of configurable integrations that remove the need for custom engineering work
- Streaming & Real-Time: Move us beyond static snapshots. Architect pipelines that support continuous data synchronization, ensuring the customer’s view of product supply chain information is always current
- Trusted Trader Programs: Help the customer implement and/or modernize their trusted trader programs. Shift them from paper-based audits to real-time, data-driven monitoring of supply chain compliance
- Automated Validation: Build tools that automate the validation of HS Codes and Country of Origin claims, helping governments close the "Tax Gap" and prevent duty evasion without slowing down commerce
- Streaming & Real-Time: You will own the suite of integration: high-volume REST APIs for trade facilitation, ensuring that the workflows and systems are compatible with the high volumes of global trade
- Network-Based Targeting: Move customs agencies beyond simple rule-matching (e.g., "Flag all goods from Country X"). Build AI-driven targeting products that analyze the network—identifying shell companies, obfuscated ownership, and anomalous trade routes that indicate evasion or illicit trade
- Enforcement Workflows: Design the "Investigator Workbench" used by officers to review and act on high-risk shipments. You will build the tools for evidence gathering and reporting
- Prescreening: Own the product logic for identifying risky shipments to prevent them from getting close to the border, let alone entering the country
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 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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