Senior Product Manager-Schematics Solutions

Job Location: Houston, Texas-USA | Madison, Alabama-USA. Workplace Type: Remote.

About the role

Octave is looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for our Schematics solutions — the connected suite of tools spanning Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID), Instrumentation, and Electrical design. These are the applications that plant and process engineers rely on to capture design intent, manage engineering data, and hand off consistent, standards-compliant deliverables across the plant lifecycle. You'll sit at the intersection of deeply technical users, engineering, and the business, and you'll be accountable for a product that engineers trust and that grows Octave's position in the market.

Our users are process engineers, instrumentation & controls (I&C) engineers, and electrical engineers working at owner-operators and EPC firms across industries such as oil & gas, chemicals, power, pharmaceuticals, and water. Understanding their workflows — and the data-centric, standards-driven way they design — is central to the job.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for the Schematics portfolio (P&ID, instrumentation, and electrical), and align stakeholders around it.
• Talk to users constantly — process, I&C, and electrical engineers, plus the EPCs and owner-operators who buy — to build first-hand understanding of their workflows, deliverables, and pain points.
• Understand how schematic design connects to the broader plant lifecycle (engineering data, 3D/plant design, procurement, construction, and handover) and prioritize interoperability and data consistency accordingly.
• Translate customer and market insight into clearly scoped problems, requirements, and success metrics.
• Prioritize ruthlessly across three disciplines and competing opportunities, balancing customer value, business impact, technical effort, and risk.
• Partner day-to-day with engineering and design to ship high-quality releases, making tradeoff decisions as scope and constraints evolve.
• Ensure the product supports relevant engineering standards and conventions (e.g., ISA, IEC, and customer/industry-specific practices, CFIHOS, DEXPI) and the data integrity engineers depend on.
• Define and track the metrics that matter (adoption, retention, engagement, revenue impact) and use them to guide decisions.
• Work with marketing, sales, and customer success on positioning, launches, enablement, and feedback loops.
• Monitor the competitive and technology landscape in plant design and engineering software, and turn it into a differentiated strategy.
• Communicate direction, progress, and reasoning clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years in product management, including experience owning a product or major area end-to-end.
• A track record of shipping software products that solved real user problems and drove measurable outcomes.
• Strong technical fluency — comfortable engaging engineers on architecture and tradeoffs, and able to understand technical, data-centric products deeply.
• Ability to quickly build domain understanding of specialized engineering workflows and translate them into product decisions.
• Excellent judgment on prioritization and scope, with the ability to say no gracefully and defend your reasoning with data and customer insight.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to make complex topics clear for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams without direct authority.

Qualifications

• Experience with engineering, plant design, or CAD/CAE software — ideally P&ID, instrumentation, electrical design, or adjacent plant/process tooling.
• Familiarity with process and plant industries (oil & gas, chemicals, power, pharmaceuticals, water/wastewater) and the EPC / owner-operator landscape.
• Understanding of data-centric engineering design, engineering data management, and design-to-handover workflows.
• Knowledge of relevant standards and conventions (e.g., ISA-5.1, IEC electrical standards, as well as CFIHOS, DEXPI, data exchange standards) and how they shape engineering deliverables.
• Background in chemical, process, electrical, instrumentation, or a related engineering field.
• Experience with usage analytics, experimentation, and quantitative decision-making.

About Octave

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle — Design, Build, Operate and Protect — where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option. Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most. Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries.