Product Operations

• Own the data-source strategy and multi-quarter roadmap.
• Define the strategy and prioritization framework for which data sources and partners to integrate.
• Lead the cross-functional team and operating model.
• Establish the cross-functional squad model that executes integrations end to end.
• Own executive-level partner relationships.
• Establish scalable, repeatable processes for onboarding new data sources.
• Own the requirements for data formats, interoperability standards, metadata, and provenance.
• Ensure integrated data is discoverable and well-documented.
• Define, set targets for, and report on the metrics for data coverage, completeness, freshness, quality, and adoption.
• Partner with privacy, security, and regulatory leaders to ensure compliance and help shape data-governance policy.

Director, Data Product – Operations

• Own the data-source strategy and multi-quarter roadmap
• Define the strategy and prioritization framework for which data sources and partners to integrate
• Lead the cross-functional team and operating model
• Own executive-level partner relationships
• Own delivery and operational excellence across the portfolio
• Set data product requirements
• Own the productization strategy for integrated data
• Own outcomes and operational metrics
• Own compliance and risk posture

• Define the vision, roadmap, and core technical requirements for our end-to-end Contract-to-Ledger ecosystem, ensuring our billing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting platforms are architected for long-term scalability.
• Serve as a high-leverage strategic partner to our finance and executive leadership teams, collaborating closely with business units to translate complex commercial strategies and accounting policies into elegant system logic.
• Maintain absolute ownership over the product backlog, functional data schemas, and software capabilities.
• Eliminate manual operational workarounds by designing automated system validation gates, maximizing the native capabilities of our technology stack.
• Establish an uncompromised enterprise data handshake that prepares our business for public-market readiness.

Group Product Manager, Financial Systems

• Provide front-line technical support to customers via phone, email, and chat for DTN grain ERP solutions
• Gather and analyze customer information to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve product issues
• Prioritize and manage support requests to ensure timely resolution based on business impact and urgency
• Troubleshoot issues related to software functionality, application, compatibility, and customer workflows
• Identify, document, and communicate software defects, including clear reproduction steps and recommended resolutions or workarounds
• Partner with customers to optimize operational workflows and maximize the value of their ERP platform
• Resolve complex customer issues while serving as a knowledge resource for peers and team members
• Collaborate with Product, Development, and Implementation teams to diagnose software issues and recommend product improvements
• Document recurring issues, customer feedback, and support insights to drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Contribute to knowledge base articles, support documentation, and best practices for internal and customer use

Product Specialist, Grain Operations

• Own the strategy and execution for InRule's AI, data, and integration positioning
• Map and continuously monitor the AI market ecosystem
• Translate market signals into a validated, defensible InRule position in the agentic AI landscape
• Originate product requirements that identify opportunities, set goals, and define success metrics
• Own the end-to-end strategy, go-to-market positioning and execution roadmap for InRule's AI, agent and MCP initiatives
• Partner with peers to develop InRule's data product strategy and execution

Product Manager – AI Systems

• Own the data-source roadmap.
• Lead cross-functional integration squads.
• Partner with external data providers.
• Drive integrations end to end.
• Define data standards and contracts.
• Make data usable downstream.
• Measure what matters.
• Navigate compliance by design.

Senior Product and Operations Manager

• Own the data-source roadmap. Define and prioritize which new data sources and internal and external data partners to integrate
• Lead cross-functional integration squads. Assemble and coordinate squads comprising Connectivity Engineers, Data Product Engineers, Domain SMEs
• Partner with external data providers. Work alongside business development and legal to evaluate prospective partners, scope data-sharing arrangements, and translate partnership terms into concrete product and integration requirements
• Drive integrations end to end. Lead the technical onboarding of new data sources
• Define data standards and contracts. Establish requirements for data formats, interoperability standards, metadata, and provenance
• Make data usable downstream. Ensure integrated data is discoverable and well documented for the clinical, product, and research teams
• Measure what matters. Define success metrics for data coverage, completeness, freshness, quality, and adoption
• Navigate compliance by design. Partner with privacy, security, and regulatory teams to ensure every integration meets HIPAA and applicable data-governance, consent, and de identification requirements.

• Build, lead, and develop the Product Operations & Delivery organization — including hiring strategy, role definition, performance management, and career development
• Define and continuously evolve the operating model for requirements intake, backlog governance, quality standards, and delivery readiness criteria across DET
• Establish best practices and structured approach with the tools used for Product Development Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle
• Evolve agentification and AI tool enablement to the team and program operating model
• Help drive the definition of product requirements intake and prioritization within program structures
• Translate high-quality, delivery-ready requirements — reducing rework, accelerating delivery, and improving adoption at scale
• Partner with Process Engineering & Optimization (PEO) leadership to ensure as-is and to-be business process changes are accurately translated into product-ready requirements
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders, providing clarity, recommendations, and tradeoff decisions related to requirements strategy, delivery readiness, and execution risk
• Establish enterprise standards for requirements quality, traceability, acceptance criteria, solution validation, UAT support, and release readiness
• Proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks, dependencies, and readiness gaps related to requirements quality, process change, or stakeholder alignment
• Define and track KPIs for requirements quality, delivery readiness, rework reduction, delivery predictability, and business adoption
• Represent Product Operations & Delivery in senior forums, driving alignment across business, product, and delivery stakeholders

Director, Product Delivery – Operations

• Develop and maintain systems and processes to track product performance
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Client Operations, and Sales to set targets and prioritize action plans to achieve them
• Own and evolve the operating system used by Product to plan, track, and communicate work, including roadmaps, planning artifacts, and execution tracking (in close partnership with Engineering)
• Design and run lightweight operating cadences (e.g., planning cycles, product reviews, execution check-ins)
• Improve visibility into priorities, progress, and decisions across the product organization without adding unnecessary process
• Define and own the PM tool stack, evolving the tools and workflows that PMs use every day to ensure the function is operating effectively
• Identify where automation, AI/agents, and other new workflows can materially change how product ideas are surfaced and translate those ideas into adopted capabilities.
• Build systems that capture and share high-quality product work (e.g., great PRDs) and decisions across teams, helping raise the bar and accelerate learning.
• Own and improve core product development processes, tooling, and team rituals (planning cycles, monthly reviews, roadmap prioritization, etc.)
• Drive cross-functional alignment between Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success
• Facilitate roadmap planning by coordinating stakeholder inputs and maintaining transparency across the org
• Design and run Early Access Programs and alpha testing programs that validate product-market fit and surface refinement signals before broad release
• Own launch coordination end-to-end — ensuring timely, high-confidence rollouts with clear success metrics and post-launch monitoring
• Maintain cross-team roadmap visibility that keeps clients, delivery teams, and leadership aligned on what's shipping and why

Product Operations Lead

• Own the MarTech operating cadence end-to-end; facilitate product council sessions, quarterly planning cycles, and retrospectives.
• Manage the roadmap governance process; support tradeoff conversations with portfolio impact analysis when new requests compete for capacity.
• Coordinate cross-functional release readiness checklists for major launches; identify and escalate gaps proactively.
• Facilitate quarterly objective-setting with PMs, engineering leads, and business stakeholders; translate strategic priorities into measurable quarterly deliverables with binary success criteria.
• Build and maintain product investment models that connect roadmap initiatives to revenue impact; support the analytical infrastructure required for R&D ROI attribution, scenario planning, and board-level investment reporting.
• Support adoption of the platform operating model; guide teams through new workflows including outcome-driven thinking through business and adoption metrics.
• Partner with the VP, Product Operations on executive communication; prepare strategic narratives that connect operational metrics to business outcomes.
• Provide cross-functional influence across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success; network with senior internal and external parties as needed.
• Own the Voice of Customer (VOC) infrastructure, with a focus on managing Sales Led and Product Led products in partnership with PMM.
• Drive adoption of the ProdOps operating system across the MarTech product organization.
• Own data hygiene and process compliance; continuously improve the operating model based on feedback and operational insights.
• Manage the feedback loop between internal users and system design to ensure processes are adopted and sustained.
• Engage with modern tooling and ways of working; the ProdOps function invests in advanced tooling for analytical and reporting workloads to enable the team to focus on facilitation, judgment, and relationships.
• Support the operational dimensions of managed-service-to-platform transitions, including beta program design, pilot governance, and the development of structured learning frameworks that separate product validation from commercial readiness.

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