Director of Product Management - USA

Position: Director of Product Management — USA

Location: Remote USA

Employment Type: Full-time

About Uplift

Uplift is a dynamic agency specializing in global talent search, covering EMEA, LATAM, USA, and APAC. With successful placements in 60 countries, we combine speed and cutting-edge technology to source top executive and mid-senior talent across various functions. Our innovative approach integrates global networks, AI, and advanced recruitment tools. Beyond recruitment, we engage with our audience through our podcast, newsletter, and webinars, ensuring we stay at the forefront of talent acquisition and global HR trends.

Job Description

Our client is a global leader in AI-driven industrial reliability, helping asset-heavy industries prevent unplanned downtime through advanced diagnostics, predictive maintenance, and actionable insights. Their platform combines industrial expertise, sensor data, and machine learning at scale to deliver measurable ROI for manufacturers worldwide. AI is central to their product strategy and long-term advantage.

Role Overview (Fully remote USA)

We are hiring a hands-on, senior Director of Product Management, based in the US, to lead our product strategy across asset reliability, process intelligence, and the PlantOS platform. You will set the multi-year roadmap that moves customers from predictive maintenance to prescriptive and semi-autonomous operations, and you will hire and grow the PM team that delivers it.

This is a senior role. You are expected to write specs, run discovery with customers in cement plants and steel mills, hold the prioritization line with engineering, and represent the product credibly at the executive level.

What you'll own

• Product vision & roadmap. A multi-year vision for PlantOS spanning predictive maintenance, prescriptive decision support, process optimization, and the underlying data platform — translated into a concrete, sequenced roadmap.
• Backlog and execution. A well-prioritized backlog for a sizable, distributed engineering organization. You can hold the line on what ships next without slowing teams down.
• Team leadership. Coaching a team of more junior product managers across reliability, process, and platform. You set the bar on discovery, prioritization, and outcome metrics.
• Customer and partner-facing product leadership. Enterprise accounts in North America and Europe, plus strategic partners (OEMs, CMMS/EAM, GSIs, hyperscalers) and pre-sales.
• Cross-functional alignment. Tight partnership with Engineering, AI/ML, Platform, and Customer Success on architecture, delivery cadence, and security & compliance.

What we're looking for

• 7+ years in B2B product management, including at least 5 years building enterprise platforms for heavy industry — cement, steel, oil & gas, mining, power, or chemicals.
• Deep domain knowledge of equipment reliability and maintenance practices (RCM, PdM, CBM) and the plant systems they integrate with: CMMS/EAM (SAP PM, Maximo), historians, DCS, PLC, SCADA, MES.
• Track record of shipping B2B platform products that engineering teams genuinely want to work on. You manage a backlog as fluently as you write a PRD.
• Demonstrated PM leadership. You have hired, coached, and leveled-up a team of product managers — not just managed projects.
• Hands-on instinct. You would rather jump on a customer call or pair with an engineer than send a status email. Senior, but not removed from the work.
• Executive presence. Comfortable in front of customer C-suite, our executive team, and the board.

Preferred

• Prior PM leadership at industrial software companies or industrial AI / reliability startups.
• Exposure to closed-loop automation, advanced process control (APC/MPC), edge AI, or IIoT platforms.
• Engineering or applied-science background; MBA a plus, not required.

Location

US-based (East or Central time zone preferred). Regular travel to customer sites and to our India engineering hub.