VP of Product Management

OLI Systems • Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ

92d

About The Position

Define and drive OLI’s product vision and roadmap, transforming customer challenges into breakthrough solutions. You’ll embed AI at the heart of product — accelerating expert workflows, surfacing predictive insights, and lowering the barrier to adoption — all while preserving scientific rigor and trust. Your mission is to cement OLI’s status as the global standard in predictive chemistry, where insight, innovation, and impact converge.

Requirements

• Advanced chemical, petroleum or materials engineering degree strongly preferred.
• 8+ years in product management or adjacent leadership roles in software, modeling, or industrial technology.
• Proven track record of bringing complex technical products to market.
• Design sensibility—experience shaping intuitive, user-centered products or processes.
• Builder-coach leadership style, high integrity, strong communicator and collaborator.

Nice To Haves

• Customer Obsession – Builds direct relationships with customers to understand pain points and future needs; translates these into product requirements.
• Stakeholder Management – Navigates competing demands from vertical leads, research teams, and customers. Gains trust and aligns groups around clear priorities.
• Design Thinking – Brings a structured approach to problem framing and workflow design. Able to simplify complex science into usable, elegant solutions that delight engineers.
• Collaboration – Partners with Technology, Commercial, and Research to ensure seamless execution.
• AI & Data Fluency – Fluency with AI/data: model constraints, feedback loops, human-in-loop workflows.
• Domain Expertise – Is grounded in science, with credibility to engage with customers, researchers, and internal scientists.
• Vision & Road mapping – Is able to chart a product roadmap that aligns technology investments with customer needs and OLI’s BHAG to make OLI a verb.
• Execution & Results Orientation – Translates strategy into delivery milestones. Ensures features are shipped that matter to customers and advance our differentiation.
• Judgment & Prioritization – Is comfortable saying no, focusing resources, and making trade-offs in ambiguous situations and based on incomplete information.
• Leadership & Influence – Inspires cross-functional teams to see the big picture and deliver against it without relying on authority.

Responsibilities

• Define and own OLI’s product vision and strategy to develop a roadmap across verticals.
• Align roadmap with customer feedback, research pipeline, and long-term platform vision.
• Identify where AI can amplify existing use cases or unlock new ones, balance bets accordingly.
• Apply design thinking to workflows and interfaces, ensuring usability and adoption by technical users.
• Architect human + AI interactions: automation, suggestion, confirmation, fallback modes.
• Simplify complexity, turn advanced chemistry models into intuitive tools that engineers and operators can trust and enjoy using.
• Run a structured intake and prioritization process for requests.
• Communicate roadmap decisions with transparency and clarity.
• Act as the voice of the customer in roadmap decisions.
• Lead customer advisory boards, discovery interviews, and feedback loops.
• Partner with engineering and research to translate requirements into deliverables.
• Track progress, resolve blockers, and report outcomes to Leadership.
• Monitor trends in advanced modeling, sustainability pathways, and digital chemistry.
• Ensure OLI stays differentiated against competitors and substitutes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees