Product Director, Altana
Knowledge Graph
Supply chain visibility platform
Job no longer available
Supply chain visibility platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
Altana AI's mission is to improve global commerce.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of technical product management and/or data product experience in a hedge fund, data business, or technology company, with a strong preference for experience working closely with enterprise customers, complex user workflows, and intricate business requirements
- Fluency across macroeconomics and a range of business domains that cover the world’s physical economy
- Significant experience with tracking, navigating, and translating vision and mission through to customer needs and outcomes through to development priorities for a platform and data infrastructure and data model team and product
- Comfortable and excited to build, grow, and evolve new teams and capabilities within a fast moving start-up environment
- Must have experience deeply understanding customer segments, needs, and solution scenarios to inform development planning and prioritization with software engineering and ML teams
- Must have deep experience with data-based platforms, and an understanding of modern data infrastructures
- High attention to detail and laser focused on accuracy, freshness, completeness and richness of data feeding application products that ultimately meet customer needs
- Entrepreneurial sense of ownership for the success of the technology infrastructure and data models powering the value management chain system, with full ownership and accountability of internal and customer outcomes depending on the platform, data, and models
- A data-driven approach to decision-making
- Excellent communication skills to clearly and concisely communicate complex topics to diverse stakeholders (product, design, engineers, customers, commercial teams etc.) in written and verbal form
What the job involves
- As the Director of Graph Product Management at Altana you will be responsible for building and delivering a living data asset that codifies, describes, and visualizes the global physical economy, powers downstream AI, and enables customers across national security, trade compliance, business resiliency, carbon accounting, and financial services to see, focus, and act on their value chains using the Altana platform
- You’ll be responsible for deeply understanding and evolving the technical platform infrastructure and data model that feeds the entire value chain management product experience and offering
- You will own a strategic roadmap of data acquisition and origination, including overseeing data partnerships
- You will define and drive the strategy and execution of derived data learnings from third-party and first-party customer data across our federated data and AI platform
- You will collaborate with a world-class team of engineers, product managers, designers, researchers, data scientists, and implementation teams to synthesize a cohesive product experience and execution plan that drives value chain management outcomes for customers
- As a senior member of the product team, this role will provide an incredible opportunity to interface with the founders, executives, and go-to-market teams to interact with our customers and evangelize our product vision and roadmap
- In collaboration with fellow product managers, engineering, AI/ML, and commercial teams, work to develop the overall product strategy, product roadmap, and feature specifications for Altana’s graph, which is the technical infrastructure and data model that feeds the entire value chain management product experience and offering. This includes laying the foundations of a competitively differentiated graph in anticipation of future evolutions
- Partner with ML, data operations, engineering, and application product managers to design knowledge graph enrichments and data quality improvements through operations on customer data and user actions across the platform
- Set data quality, coverage, and reliability standards to meet customer needs across the platform
- Build and manage a team to oversee data ontologies, data partnership business development and relationship management, and data origination
- Work closely with our commercial and product management and marketing teams to build our graph product value propositions in support of go-to-market plans; build a deep understanding of our market trends, partner ecosystem, and competitive landscape
- Connect the dots between underlying technical platform and data infrastructure and models with customer facing experiences through collaboration with product design, engineering, internal subject matter experts, and external customers
- Become the go-to expert for the future of knowledge graphs in the context of global supply chains and physical commerce
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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