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The Role
Support product management with roadmap planning, backlog maintenance, release coordination, and cross-functional communication. Track dependencies and milestones, assist release readiness, synthesize input from technical and customer-facing teams, participate in customer/technical reviews, and gradually take ownership of product areas.
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About Ocient:
Ocient is building OcientAIQ™ – a complete ecosystem for delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale, for the organizations that can't afford to get AI wrong. Our customers protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy. The problems we solve are genuinely hard, and the work matters.
Founded in 2016 by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM in 2015), Ocient is headquartered in Chicago with a remote-first global team. We are a carbon-neutral company backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Buoyant Ventures.
Job Title: Associate Product Manager
Location: Remote (US Only)
- We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind now or in the future (ex. OPT, EAD, H1B, H4, etc.)*
Hiring Manager: Product Management Leadership
Estimated salary range: $130,000 to $150,000
- The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
Position Overview:
Ocient is seeking an Associate Product Manager (APM) to support the Product Management team with a strong focus on product operations, execution, and cross-functional coordination. This role is designed for a highly technical, motivated individual who wants to grow into a full Product Manager role.
You will work closely with senior product managers, engineering, solutions, and sales to help keep product initiatives moving, improve product processes, and develop a deep understanding of Ocient’s technology, customers, and market. Over time, this role will expand to include direct ownership of product areas and roadmap responsibility.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone transitioning from engineering or technical sales into product management.
Responsibilities:
Product Operations & Execution:
- Support product managers in roadmap planning, execution tracking, and release coordination across multiple initiatives.
- Help maintain product backlogs, documentation, requirements, and prioritization artifacts.
- Track commitments, dependencies, and delivery milestones to ensure product initiatives stay on schedule.
- Assist with release readiness activities, including documentation, enablement materials, and internal communications.
Cross-Functional Support:
- Act as a connective layer between Product, Engineering, Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success.
- Gather and synthesize input from technical teams and customer-facing groups into clear product insights.
- Help ensure product decisions and priorities are well understood across stakeholders.
Product Learning & Growth:
- Develop a deep understanding of Ocient’s platform, architecture, and customer use cases.
- Participate in customer discussions, technical reviews, and internal product forums.
- Gradually take ownership of defined product areas, features, or initiatives as skills and experience grow.
Ideal Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, systems engineering, or technical sales/solutions engineering.
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand complex systems and communicate them clearly.
- Demonstrated ability to organize work, manage details, and follow through in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-motivated, curious, and eager to learn product management best practices.
- Interest in building a long-term career in product management.
An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:
- Someone who is technically strong but wants broader ownership and impact.
- A clear communicator who can translate between engineering and business perspectives.
- A proactive problem-solver who sees gaps and helps close them without being asked.
- An individual excited by complexity, scale, and learning how great products are built.
Interview Requirements: All interviews are conducted via video and require candidates to have their camera on for the duration of the session. The use of video filters, face-altering effects, or virtual backgrounds is not permitted for security and verification purposes.
We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Ocient is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, parental status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please contact [email protected] for more information.
All official Ocient job postings and recruiting communications will come directly from our team via our Careers page, LinkedIn, or from an ocient.com email address. If you receive communication about a role from any other source, please treat it with caution and direct questions to [email protected].
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, systems engineering, or technical sales/solutions engineering.
- Strong technical aptitude with ability to understand complex systems and communicate them clearly.
- Demonstrated ability to organize work, manage details, and follow through in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-motivated, curious, and eager to learn product management best practices.
- Interest in building a long-term career in product management.
- Proactive problem-solver who can translate between engineering and business perspectives.
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What We Do
Ocient is a Chicago-based, venture-funded startup building a SQL compliant, exabyte-scale database platform that achieves better performance than Hadoop and NoSQL systems. It is a distributed system optimized for NVMe drives, RDMA networks and high core count processors and is written in C++. We are led by a management team with seven successful st
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