Sr Product Manager - Cost Estimation

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role We are seeking a strategic and technical Product Manager to lead the evolution of our Aspen Capital Cost Estimation solutions and drive growth. In this role, you will drive the product vision and execution for critical CAPEX/OPEX estimation tools for the Process Industry. You will play a pivotal role in a major initiative of transforming our applications. If you thrive in a Scaled Agile environment and enjoy turning complex engineering workflows into seamless user experiences, we want you on our team. Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define and own the product roadmap for our capital cost estimation portfolio, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and user needs. Define strategic priorities and build business cases to justify the priorities. Agile Leadership: Function as the primary Solution Manager for the product within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment. Coordinate with R&D leaders, architects, and Agile Release Trains, manage the product backlog meticulously in Azure DevOps, and write clear, actionable features. Technical Integration: Partner closely with R&D teams to integrate complex calculation and leverage data fabric architectures to ensure high performance and data integrity. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work alongside UX/UI designers, domain experts, and stakeholders to translate deep technical cost-estimation workflows into intuitive, modern web experiences. Support Sales and SC teams with customer engagements. Market & User Research: Conduct continuous discovery with end-users to understand their pain points in capital project planning and cost modeling, incorporating feedback into the product lifecycle. Leverage tools such as usage data, market & competitive research, macroeconomic trends, and close collaboration with Sales organization. Stakeholder alignment: ensure appropriate sign offs and alignment with management and other key stakeholders. What You’ll Need Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related technical or business field. MBA desired. Experience: 5+ years of experience in enterprise software Product Management, preferably within engineering, construction, or adjacent software domains. Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of capital cost estimation processes, cost modeling, or heavy industrial project planning. Technical and Business Acumen: Proven track record of leading product development efforts. Analyze customer feedback, product usage data, and market trends to support software feature planning. Methodology: Deep expertise in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and hands-on experience managing backlogs in tools like Azure DevOps. Skills: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to bridge the gap between highly technical engineering teams and business stakeholders.

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The salary range for this role is $146,900.00 - $183,600.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. paid time off charitable giveback day medical/dental/vision insurance retirement benefits to eligible employees AspenTech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. AspenTech does not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of age, race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or related conditions, marital status, familial status, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, citizenship, military service or protected Veteran Status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Reasonable Accommodation: We will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals who have a disability or sincere religious reasons to request accommodation, when necessary to enable the individual to participate in the job application or interview process. If you wish to request an accommodation, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io. GDPR Privacy Notice: AspenTech collects a range of personal information during the recruitment process. This may include the following personal or special categories of personal data: recruitment information such as your application form and resume, references, qualifications and membership of any professional bodies and details of any pre-employment assessments; your contact details and date of birth; your gender; your marital status and family details; your identification documents including passport and driver's license and information in relation to your immigration status and right to work with us; information about your contract of employment (or services) including start and end dates of employment, role and location, working hours, details of promotion, salary (including details of previous remuneration), pension, benefits, and holiday entitlement; your racial or ethnic origin; any criminal convictions and offences. AspenTech Security and Privacy Policy Plan Participants Enrolled in the AspenTech US Medical Plans: The Transparency in Coverage Final Rules require certain group health plans to disclose on a public website information regarding in-network provider rates and historical out-of-network allowed amounts and billed charges for covered items and services in two separate machine-readable files (MRF’s). The MRF’s for the benefit package options under AspenTech’s US Employee Benefit Plan are linked below: Transparency in Coverage Rule - Machine Readable Files Transparency In Coverage Rule And Consolidated Appropriations Act Overview and FAQS #J-18808-Ljbffr Aspen Technology, Inc.