Sr. Product Manager (Oil & Gas)

Zeitview • Houston, TX

4d • $160,000 - $180,000

About The Position

Zeitview is hiring a Senior Product Manager to serve as the customer and industry expert for its Oil & Gas vertical. The role owns problem definition: understanding enterprise customers’ needs, the reasons behind them, and their business value. The Product Manager conducts discovery, builds customer relationships alongside Sales, synthesizes market signals and competitive intelligence, and turns findings into clear, prioritized requirements for platform product managers and engineering teams. The role also defines metrics to demonstrate product and strategy success, develops business cases and go-to-market approaches for expanding offerings, and focuses on growth. It owns the “what” and “why,” working with solutions-side product managers to negotiate the “how” and “when,” rather than owning a backlog or shipping software directly.

In the first six months, the role will define vertical success measures tied to revenue, retention, and customer outcomes; embed with three to five strategic Oil & Gas accounts to understand their inspection workflows, pain points, and decision-making; conduct structured discovery using customer interviews, operational ride-alongs, competitive analysis, and usage data; prioritize problems; and advocate for engineering capacity with platform product managers using data and customer evidence. The role will create requirements that are sufficiently specific for engineering while remaining useful across the platform, and build internal credibility as Zeitview’s Oil & Gas expert.

This is a customer-facing, cross-functional individual contributor role. It includes regular enterprise customer calls and travel to customer sites and inspection locations. It is not a platform backlog ownership or day-to-day software delivery role, a strategy role without customer contact, or a people-management role. Zeitview describes itself as a mission-driven intelligent aerial imaging company serving high-value infrastructure customers in more than 70 countries, with a mission to accelerate the global transition to renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure through advanced inspection solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a science, technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 8 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in product management, solutions consulting, technical sales, or a comparable customer-facing enterprise software role.
• Deep Oil & Gas domain expertise, including familiarity with industry assets, inspection workflows, regulatory context, and business models.
• Track record of building trusted enterprise customer relationships and converting them into insight about underlying needs, not just feature requests.
• Ability to conduct structured discovery and synthesize qualitative and quantitative inputs into a prioritized problem set other teams can act on.
• Commercial acumen connecting product decisions to pipeline, deal size, retention, and competitive positioning in the vertical.
• Exceptional communication skills, including presenting to senior customer stakeholders and translating their input into product briefs for solutions product managers and engineering.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites and inspection locations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with operational or service delivery teams, such as field inspection or drone operations.
• Experience with geospatial data, remote sensing, or asset management platforms.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-powered products and the ability to assess whether they address real vertical problems.
• Experience with go-to-market strategy, including product launches, positioning, pricing, or vertical-specific marketing.
• Experience in mobile application development.

Responsibilities

• Define success measures for the Oil & Gas vertical that connect to revenue, retention, and customer outcomes.
• Develop deep understanding of strategic enterprise customers’ inspection workflows, pain points, and decision-making structures.
• Conduct structured customer and market discovery through interviews, operational ride-alongs, competitive analysis, and usage data.
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative findings into a prioritized problem set for the Oil & Gas vertical.
• Advocate for the vertical’s priorities and negotiate engineering capacity with platform product managers using customer evidence and data.
• Write clear, actionable requirements that withstand engineering scrutiny and can serve platform-wide needs.
• Build trusted relationships with enterprise customers and work alongside Sales on those relationships.
• Conduct competitive intelligence and define metrics to demonstrate product and strategy success.
• Develop business cases and go-to-market approaches for expanding product and service offerings.
• Travel to customer sites and inspection locations.
• Coordinate across functions and informally guide others without direct reports.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary, annual bonus, and stock options.
• Choice of multiple medical insurance plans, including HSA options and 100% premium coverage for the employee and dependents.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Autonomy and upward mobility.
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior