About the role

Forward Deployment Product Manager bridging engineering and oil-and-gas operations at CruxOCM. Delivering industrial automation integrations for customer control rooms.

Responsibilities

Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, story pointing, sprint reviews, and team retrospectives using Agile best practices.
Manage multiple concurrent projects, develop project plans and milestones, align timelines with customers, optimize resource allocation, and identify critical paths.
Leverage AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and LLMs daily to accelerate project management tasks.
Identify and resolve technical or procedural dependencies and blockers.
Identify internal productivity improvements through tooling, standardized processes, playbooks, documentation, automated tests, deployment scripts, and productized custom development.
Ensure deliverables meet safety and reliability standards for heavy industry environments.
Serve as the primary customer contact, manage expectations, and provide transparent progress updates.
Build trust-based relationships with client-side technical leads and plant managers.
Align Deployment, Support, Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams on customer requirements, delivery, and product roadmap.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or related fields.
3+ years of combined experience in engineering, product development, or technical program/project management.
Ability to discuss design tradeoffs, system architecture, and debugging with engineers.
Demonstrated daily experience using AI coding assistants, generative tools, and automated workflows to increase personal and engineering output.
Domain knowledge in oil and gas, hydraulic theory, fluid dynamics, or advanced control is desirable.