Chief Product Officer

Abyss Solutions • Houston, TX

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Abyss Solutions is reinventing industrial asset management both above and underwater for step-change improvements in asset life, maintenance cost, and reduction of failure risk. We utilize sophisticated, unique (and patented) Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning software together with a deep understanding of our customers’ asset integrity needs and processes. We create a 3D ‘digital twin’ of customer assets. Using drones and Abyss analytics is just the beginning, Abyss comprehensively classifies the ‘state’ of the asset to identify exactly what maintenance is required, providing precise direction. Abyss is driving to fully automate the maintenance process, expanding applications and capabilities into other verticals. This role is for a Series B (~$15–20M revenue) company pivoting from managed-service delivery to a platform sold through IRM operators such as Acuren and Applus+. The CPO owns the product that makes the pivot real, a roadmap spanning cloud inspection, continuous monitoring, and edge autonomy. This is a Houston-based role, with heavy travel across the Middle East, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The CPO reports to the CEO and partners tightly with the CRO.

Requirements

• Designs for non-technical field users — has shipped tools inspectors actually adopt in the field, not demos.
• Radical simplicity as a hard constraint; onboarding measured in hours.
• Industrial inspection + APM fluency — Meridium, Maximo, SAP PM, AssetWise.
• Owns the integration-layer product requirements — defines the API, doesn’t write it.
• Active-learning / human-in-the-loop AI — can make unknown-defect handling experientially simple, not an ML lecture.
• Two-sided platform builder — products serving a channel partner and an end beneficiary at once; multi-vertical (oil & gas, power, chemicals) through one channel.
• Series B+ operator — stands up a product org from scratch, ships imperfect, scrappy without scaffolding.
• Holds product ground against a strong CRO without deferring or duplicating.
• US citizen / green card, no visa sponsorship
• 7–20 years PM at CPO/VP level

Nice To Haves

• IRM domain depth — knows how IRMs price work, deploy crews, run campaigns, and where their single-digit margins hurt.
• Named-operator or regional exposure — direct experience with Acuren, Applus+ or Bureau Veritas, BP, CVX, OXY, etc and/or Middle East market familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Owns the product that makes the pivot real, a roadmap spanning cloud inspection, continuous monitoring, and edge autonomy.
• Designs for non-technical field users — has shipped tools inspectors actually adopt in the field, not demos.
• Owns the integration-layer product requirements — defines the API, doesn’t write it.
• Builds products serving a channel partner and an end beneficiary at once; multi-vertical (oil & gas, power, chemicals) through one channel.
• Stands up a product org from scratch, ships imperfect, scrappy without scaffolding.
• Holds product ground against a strong CRO without deferring or duplicating.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed