ILI Gas, Sr. Product Manager

at  NDT Global

NDT Global is the leading provider of ultra-high-tech diagnostic inspection solutions, advanced data analysis and integrity assessment services for ensuring the safety and longevity of energy-sector infrastructure assets. Recognized as the forerunner in ultrasonic inspection technologies comprising Pulse Echo, Pitch-and-Catch and Phased Array, as well as Acoustic Resonance (ART Scan) methodologies, the company also deploys a range of non-ultrasonic technologies, such as Inertial Measurement Units, with more under development. NDT Global strategically applies its inspection technologies to detect, diagnose and model various types of threat—circumferential or axial cracks, metal loss, geometry, mapping, and more—across diverse classes of assets. By providing predictive, decision-ready insights driven by the world’s most accurate data, NDT Global enables the conditions for asset owners to optimize infrastructure health and drive operational efficiencies while reducing risk and minimizing their carbon footprint.
NDT Global is part of Previan, a fast-growing, innovative industrial technology group focused on advanced diagnostic technologies to monitor the world’s infrastructure health. The Group serves asset owners, large engineering firms, and service companies globally in markets such as Aerospace, Civil Infrastructures, Energy, Mining, Power Generation, and Rail. Previan believes that advancing science and technology via sensors, hardware, robotics, and software makes the world more productive and safer for people, business and nature. The company employs over 1,300 people throughout 28 offices worldwide and serves clients in more than 110 countries
The goal of ILI Product Manager is to lead the strategic direction and development of our ILI Gas product line. The role will focus on identifying key customer pain points with significant financial impact, evaluating market opportunities, and crafting a cohesive product strategy that maximizes customer value. The position will oversee the entire product lifecycle, from ideation and roadmap creation to successful market delivery and ongoing performance monitoring. Success in this role requires strong stakeholder management skills to drive alignment across various functions including engineering, sales, operations, marketing, and finance.
The goal is to ensure our products meet market demands, align with customer needs, and achieve financial targets through data-driven decision-making and problem-solving.

EXPERIENCE:

• Must have proven track record of substantially growing a company through product led growth
• Knowledge of how to improve product management processes, outcomes, and ongoing results
• Highly skilled at defining portfolio and investment decisions that balance new customer needs, install base requirements and long-term differentiation.
• Identified industry dynamics, trends and policies to drive the product team to explore alternate technologies and approaches to solve customers’ problems in a manner that results in significant growth.
• Able to make strategic partnership decisions for product offerings including when to buy, build or partner and creation of new sales channels.
• Is highly skilled with product management best practices such as setting and driving value-based pricing.
• Ability to manage competing stakeholders asks into an aligned roadmap and value proposition for the development team.
• Able to do and articulate a cost, benefit, reliability, and risk analysis of alternatives.
• Assess competitors and create battle cards.
• Strong verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills
• Strong integrity management and inline inspection knowledge including industry standards, best practices, regulatory requirements, and the ability to evaluate trade-offs in technical choices.
• Strong acumen of hardware & software development lifecycle and product design.
• Skilled with executing a continuous delivery methodology of build, test, iterate for hardware, software & service solutions.
• Experience with building data and analytics-based solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as business administration, computer science, engineering, or related discipline is required
• Minimum of eight years of experience in Product Management is required
• Minimum of two years of experience working for data technology companies in the industrial space
• Must be proficient in spoken and written English
• Job location Calgary, CA or Houston, TX

Benefits

• Great long-term career prospects and development opportunities
• Challenging tasks in innovative and diverse teams
• Attractive compensation system
• Flexible working environment

• Ideation and identification of financially material customer problems worth solving.
• Defining market opportunity size, fit & differentiation.
• Creating a cohesive product strategy and roadmap that brings to market solutions that maximizes customer value.
• Ensuring success through data-driven monitoring of financial targets and problem solving when off target
• Driving quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and alignment across a wide set of stakeholders including customers, engineering, operations, sales, marketing and finance.
• Industry and customer engagement including thought leadership, industry trends, technology and innovation partnerships
• Owns and manages the product offerings for a customer segment including releases, roadmaps and go to market activities such as pricing, messaging, customer engagement, sales pipeline generation and sales enablement.
• Creates, identifies, and evangelizes new concepts that result in business model innovation (product, sales, services, and delivery)
• Is accountable for organizational and business objectives/targets and is involved in long-term planning and managing complex issues to ensure success of business strategy.
• Leadsa cross-functional team, distributed team to drive delivery of differentiated high revenue& margin impact products and features.
• Develop specialized knowledge of latest commercial market trends and competition in the inline inspection and integrity management space including factors that differentiate them.
• Defines and implements pricing strategies based on customer value propositions to maximize product value and market competitiveness.
• Owning introduction and growth of software, hardware, and service product offerings including multi-year build outs to increase serviceable market.
• Partner with engineering leaders, project operations and technical product managers to ensure there is a strong development process that delivers continuous, high-quality product and service releases
• Have a strong understanding of technology and architecture and its impact on the solution delivered to the customer, costs (hardware/software) and risks to the product release (including performance specifications).
• Risk assessment and management for new product initiatives and product updates.
• Other duties as assigned