Group Product Manager

Nominal•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

Nominal is building a Hardware Intelligence Platform that helps engineers work with complex physical systems through connected systems, data, intelligence, and applications. Its customers operate across aerospace, defense, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and robotics. The Group Product Manager - Data Foundation owns the strategy, organization, and results for Data Foundation, the platform layer customers use to bring in hardware data, secure it, manage its cost, and operate it reliably. The scope includes data onboarding, developer experiences, security and governance, usage and cost management, and reliable operations. The role translates company priorities into a multi-year plan, builds and develops the product team responsible for these journeys, and partners with the Engineering platform lead as a product peer. The work primarily involves coaching and setting direction, with direct product work focused on high-stakes decisions where the role’s judgment is decisive.

Requirements

Experience setting strategy for a platform or data product area and delivering the resulting roadmap and outcomes.
Track record of building a product management team from a small group into a multi-level organization, including developing at least one product manager into a lead or manager.
Prior ownership of a function’s goals and headcount plan, including accountability for the plan and its outcomes.
Deep knowledge of data systems or developer platforms, demonstrated through products engineers use via APIs, SDKs, or a CLI.
Experience shipping platform products to enterprise customers where security reviews and deployment options influence product decisions.
Experience presenting a product area’s results and investment case to an executive team.
Experience doing hands-on product work on high-stakes decisions while leading, including personally making discovery or trade-off decisions.

Nice To Haves

Prior ownership of a usage-based infrastructure product or a product offered as both multi-tenant and single-tenant.
Background in aerospace, defense, automotive, or industrial products, or in hardware test and telemetry data.
Experience leading product managers who are themselves managers.
Track record of shipping customer- or developer-facing features built on a large language model or agent.

Responsibilities

Set the multi-year Data Foundation strategy and translate company priorities into the function’s roadmap, investment choices, and customer outcomes.
Design the Data Foundation product management organization, determining which journeys need dedicated product managers, when to add leads, and how the team should grow.
Recruit and develop senior product managers with data systems expertise and develop the first product leads in the organization.
Partner with the Engineering platform lead on product direction, staffing, and trade-offs, aligning Product and Engineering around a shared plan.
Set journey-level North Star metrics and establish the operating cadence to hold the function accountable.
Represent Data Foundation’s results to the executive team.
Align Design, Go-to-Market, Finance, and Security on cross-functional decisions, including platform investment versus monetization and enterprise readiness.
Build an AI-native product practice across the function and set expectations for how product managers use AI in discovery and delivery.
Personally lead high-stakes product discovery and trade-off decisions when needed.