Vice President of Technical Product, Altana AI
$200-280k
+ Equity grant
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
Supply chain visibility platform
Open for applications
Supply chain visibility platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$200-280k
+ Equity grant
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
101-200 employees
Company mission
Altana AI's mission is to improve global commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience (generally 10+years) as a technology and/or product leader in a complex B2B space with multiple stakeholders
- Experience building and managing high performing teams in a matrixed environment
- Entrepreneurial drive and spirit to deliver business results with full ownership and accountability of outcomes. You have gone from zero to one, and you have built for scale
- Demonstrated success identifying commonalities across seemingly disparate user groups and workflows, and synthesizing shared services and experiences
- Business-driven with a passion for technology - you crave identifying, defining, and solving user challenges through sophisticated technology delivered in intuitive user experiences
- Excellent communication skills to clearly and concisely communicate complex topics to diverse stakeholders (engineers, customers, etc.) in written and verbal form
- Experience in working closely with enterprise customers, complex user workflows, and intricate business requirements
What the job involves
- Altana is looking for an entrepreneurial, hands-on, and mission-driven VP of Technical Product Management to lead the APIs, platform services, and data management capabilities that power our products and those of third party developers
- You will oversee a federated data management, knowledge graph, AI, and collaboration technology stack that connects and manages the world’s largest supply chain data network, and powers collaborative workflows across that network
- You’ll be responsible for the product management of the horizontal capabilities which power our applications spanning users in government, enterprise, logistics, and financial services
- Your customers are Altana’s customer-facing applications and their end-user requirements, as well as third party applications and their developers who are building on the Altana platform
- In this leadership role, you will oversee a team of technical product managers
- You will partner with Altana’s CTO, engineering and AI leadership, and the product line managers and designers overseeing Altana’s front-end product lines
- You will collaborate with product marketing to communicate technical concepts and value propositions to our customers, manage API documentation, and maintain internal documentation and knowledgebases for the benefit of Altana’s developers, product managers, designers
- You will initially report to the CEO of Altana until such time as a Chief Product Officer is hired
- Partner with the founders and the CTO to both execute and advance the product vision and strategy
- Own and execute the roadmap for Altana’s platform capabilities and services
- Manage a team of Technical Product Managers and collaborate with the Product Line Managers and Designers in the Product Organization to ensure that the platform delivers unified, scalable, and stable APIs and services that meet our product requirements
- Collaborate with engineering, commercial teams, internal subject matter experts and external customers to translate market, product, and workflow requirements into requirements for shared platform services
- Maintain the documentation and knowledge management systems to enable Altana PMs, designers, and developers to build on the Altana platform. Partner with Product Marketing to enable third-party developers to build on Altana
- Some key platform surface areas under your stewardship include:
- Federated Data Platform and Knowledge Graph: Altana has pioneered a unique hub-and-spoke federated data platform that connects customer data securely and privately with Altana’s knowledge graph - the world’s most comprehensive map of the global supply chain. We deliver the graph, and match customer data to the graph, across federated deployments that include multiple cloud providers, classified environments, and multiple geographies
- Machine Learning Services: You’ll help to apply the latest artificial intelligence technologies to a massive, globally-unique dataset in combination with customer data. You will oversee the product strategy for how we apply AI consistently and efficiently across our product surface areas, and engage in how our product feedback loop creates a differential dataset
- Search and Network Analysis: You will deliver a unified set of APIs and services that enable our customers to find what they are looking for in the graph, match and manage their data in the graph, and receive insights from the combined data. You will serve some of the latest technologies across LLMs, graph neural networks, and agentic AI to help our customers get to insights and to answers
- Customer Data Management and Permissioning: Altana works with many of the world’s most important government agencies, enterprises, and service providers. They have complex requirements for role-based access controls, data and feature entitlements, and use case-sensitive collaboration authorizations. You will oversee the system-level design and delivery of data onboarding and curation, user registries and permissioning, audit logs, and security services that enable Altana products to serve sensitive, critical missions across national security, global trade, financial services underwriting, compliance, and more
- Collaboration Services: You will be responsible for the core tools and systems for collaboration across Altana’s platform: the systems for claiming and managing organizational profiles and managing user registries, the systems for communicating and linking data across organizations and their systems of record, and the commenting and chat functions that enable users to connect with each other both within an organization and across organizations. You will work with Altana’s product line managers and designers to build delightful, intuitive, and engaging collaboration functionality that can be embedded across workflows and user experiences
Our take
Altana AI’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 AI’s success has attracted the company 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 $4 trillion 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
- Comprehensive healthcare package
- Paid parental leave of 3 months for the primary caregiver and 1 month for the secondary caregiver
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Raphael Tehranian
(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
(Chief Science Officer)An MIT grad in political science who went on to work as Head of Data Science at Panjiva.
Evan Smith
(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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