Director of Product Management

About the role

nTop builds parametric design software for aerospace, defense, and industrial turbomachinery. The platform enables engineers to explore design spaces systematically, reducing the time from requirements to fielded systems compared to traditional methods.

What You'll Do

• Turn vision into a working system
• Translate nTop's 2–5 year direction into concrete objectives, a resourcing plan, and a cadence the three teams follow
• Coach product management as a craft, in the room
• Sit directly in roadmap and tradeoff decisions with your three PMs
• Set the criteria for when nTop builds, partners, or leaves a capability to the broader ecosystem
• Own the seams between teams — the handoffs where geometry becomes a simulation mesh, where simulation results train faster surrogate models, and where both feed into the UX — plus the metrics that show whether the three teams are reinforcing each other
• Meet with customers and stay connected to the broader industry to pressure-test direction against how design teams actually work
• Manage the UX design and research team directly
• Represent Product Platform on nTop's leadership team and help set company strategy

Must-haves

• 8–10+ years in product management, several of them spent coaching or managing other PMs directly
• A track record of turning a leadership-defined, multi-year vision into concrete objectives and a working system a team can execute against
• Experience managing managers or leading a product organization spanning multiple teams, including managing or closely partnering with a UX design and research function
• Strong communication across technical and executive audiences

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in aerospace, maritime, propulsion, industrial energy, or motorsports, ideally paired with exposure to usage-based or concurrent licensing models
• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant engineering discipline, or an MBA