Senior Product Manager, Transportation & Logistics

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are & Why Join Us

Avathon is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, helping customers across heavy industries -- energy, mining, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, and logistics -- accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations. Our platform is built on a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation that contextualizes and connects operational data across siloed systems, bringing together time series, structured, unstructured, and machine vision data to power AI-driven applications in asset performance management, supply chain intelligence, visual AI, and global trade management. With capabilities spanning digital twins, normal behavior modeling, natural language processing, and computer vision, Avathon delivers real-time predictive intelligence and agentic decision-making at industrial scale.

Cutting-Edge AI Innovation -- Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. High-Growth Environment -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm. Meaningful Impact -- Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.

Learn more at: avathon.com

About the Role: 

We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to own Logistics, Transportation and Global Trade Management on the Avathon platform. Our customers need to know where their parts and shipments are, when they will really arrive, what they will cost to move and clear, and what happens to production when they are late. We bring together data from TMS platforms, carriers, EDI feeds, ERP and MES, model it in our Computational Knowledge Graph, and use AI agents to predict delays, manage exceptions and automate trade compliance. Your job is to turn this into a product with a clear roadmap. This is a product management role in Product Engineering, not a customer delivery role.

• Product Strategy and Roadmap

  • Own the vision, roadmap and priorities for shipment visibility, ETA prediction, carrier management, load optimization and global trade compliance
  • Know the market. Understand Oracle OTM, Blue Yonder, Manhattan, SAP TM, e2open, project44 and FourKites, and where an AI-native approach that ties logistics to production impact wins
  • Decide what is core product, what is a connector and what stays as customer configuration
  • Define how logistics connects to Planning, PLM and asset maintenance on the platform

  Transportation and Trade Capabilities

  • Define requirements across the shipment lifecycle: booking, tendering, tracking, proof of delivery and freight audit
  • Own carrier onboarding, rating and routing, and FTL/LTL load optimization across road, rail, ocean and air
  • Drive EDI (204, 214, 990, 997) and carrier API integrations and carrier collaboration workflows
  • Define trade compliance features: HTS classification, duty and tariff calculation, denied party screening, export controls, FTA qualification and duty drawback

  Customer Discovery and Execution

  • Spend real time with logistics, transportation and trade compliance teams at customer sites
  • Turn requests from deployments into reusable product requirements
  • Write clear requirements and acceptance criteria and run release reviews with the engineering lead
  • Track adoption and value, such as ETA accuracy, expedite cost, freight spend and on-time-to-production
  • Work with sales and marketing on positioning, pricing input and launches

• 8+ years in product management, with at least 4 years owning a transportation, logistics, visibility or trade management product
• Experience at a vendor such as Oracle (OTM or GTM), Blue Yonder, Manhattan Associates, SAP TM, e2open, Descartes, project44 or FourKites, or leading logistics systems at a large manufacturer
• Deep understanding of TMS, shipment lifecycle management, carrier operations and multimodal freight
• Working knowledge of EDI and logistics data exchange and how shipment data flows into ERP and MES
• Experience shipping AI or ML driven features such as predictive ETA, anomaly detection or route optimization; agentic logistics workflows are a strong plus
• Knowledge of global trade compliance (HTS, denied party screening, export controls, FTA, duty drawback) is a strong plus
• Strong written communication and the ability to work across engineering, sales and customers
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain or a related field. MBA or MS is a plus

Compensation

Pay Range: $140k - $180k salary annually. Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Location: This role is not remote. Candidates must be based in the Bay Area, CA and are expected to report to our Pleasanton office 5 days a week.

Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Avathon is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us to discuss how we can assist you.