Director of Product Management, Public Sector

Altana • Washington, DC

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About The Position

Altana is seeking a Director of Product Management for Public Sector to lead the team defining how governments utilize the Altana network. This role is crucial for empowering governments to understand, monitor, and act on global commerce, addressing challenges in supply chain transparency, forced labor enforcement, export controls, and economic security. The Director will oversee three public sector product areas, collaborate across the organization, and build the infrastructure for trusted trade. This position is central to solving significant technology problems in global trade and economic security.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience at the intersection of trade, customs enforcement, or border security technology.
• Understanding of operational constraints, data limitations, and political realities within customs and border authorities.
• Understanding of trade as a network system and how consequential risks hide in connections.
• Experience translating high-level mandates (e.g., forced labor enforcement, counternarcotics, trusted-trader modernization, revenue protection) into concrete product features.
• Ability to write requirements an engineer can build and explain data architecture to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience designing for agencies across developed and emerging economies with different legal regimes, data-sovereignty requirements, languages, and levels of digital maturity.
• Experience leading teams that define system interfaces, draft API specs, and prototype workflows.
• Understanding of APIs, EDI, ETL/ELT, JSON.
• Obsession with user experience and making complex workflows feel intuitive.
• 8+ years of experience in customs enforcement, border security technology, trade compliance, or trade facilitation.
• 7+ years of product management experience, ideally spanning complex enterprise or government systems.
• Prior experience with API-based integrations, data pipeline architecture, or enterprise system implementation.

Nice To Haves

• Clearance is a plus, but not required. Some of our government work requires eligibility for a security clearance; eligibility for (or an existing) U.S. security clearance, or a prior successful Customs and Border Protection/DHS background investigation, is a strong plus.
• For engagements with international customs authorities, relevant local eligibility and the ability to work within each authority’s security requirements is what matters most.
• Direct experience with customs agency operations, trusted-trader/pre-clearance programs, or trade facilitation modernization initiatives — in the U.S. or internationally.
• Familiarity with targeting systems, risk scoring, and enforcement workflow design in a customs, border, or law enforcement context.
• Working knowledge of trade data structures: entry summaries, manifests, advance ship notices, HS/HTS classification, and country-of-origin determinations.
• Experience with revenue protection (undervaluation, transshipment/COO laundering, HS misclassification) and/or enforcement missions (counternarcotics, forced labor, TBML, trade diversion) is a strong plus.
• Experience delivering products across multiple countries or agencies, including emerging-market contexts, is a plus.
• Eligibility for a U.S. security clearance, or an existing clearance / CBP background investigation, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision for Altana’s three public sector product areas: Customs and Border Management For Goods, Defense resilience and acquisition, and Economic Security and Policy.
• Engage in how Altana is deployed to governments to meet them where they need us across their varied geographies, security and compliance boundaries.
• Ensure a unified platform and architecture to meet the needs of multiple governments.
• Work in collaboration with our other product areas to define and deliver our core mission sets in ways that work for public sector users.
• Help government customers move beyond transaction oriented, repetitive work, and adversarial sampling by building an agent native intelligence layer.
• Build automated validation tools that close the "Tax Gap" — catching duty evasion, misdeclared origin, and undervaluation without slowing the flow of legitimate commerce.
• Own the integration and user workflow layer: how do we coexist with government systems and user flows to bridge the world to a new future.
• Define a new product capability around economic security — giving government users the analytical tools to understand supply chain concentration, map strategic dependencies, model the impact of tariff and export control policy, and coordinate with allied governments on shared risk.
• Build the "Policy Workbench" that allows trade analysts, national security staff, and senior policymakers to move from raw supply chain data to defensible, evidence-based conclusions.
• Work across the U.S. interagency and with Altana's international government customers to ensure the platform supports the full spectrum of economic security missions.
• Manage a fused data environment that combines Altana’s unparalleled supply chain graph, and enables integration with confidential customer data to support policy analyses.
• Evolve supply chain in defense procurement from one-time design and awards to continuous compliance that fosters an innovation ecosystem.
• Create a marketplace for compliant components that enables defense manufacturers and governments to foster innovation, experimentation and rapid fielding of new capabilities.
• Build the tooling to enable defense contractors to see and manage their supply chains using Altana’s deep tier visibility, analysis and collaboration flows connecting component makers, manufacturers, and certification providers with the public sector.
• Set the product strategy and roadmap for these areas.
• Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, and government affairs to translate policy mandates and operational realities into product capabilities that work at the scale governments require.
• Be the connective tissue between Altana's enterprise product work and its government missions — ensuring that what enterprises submit and what governments receive tells a coherent, trusted story.

Benefits

• Altana offers a diverse workforce enabling greater creativity, performance, and adaptability.
• Equal opportunity employer.
• Employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate.
• Prohibition of discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.

What This Job Offers

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