Principal Product Manager, Material Science

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $163.2k - $306k / year

⏰ Full Time

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔒 Cybersecurity

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Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Pharmaceuticals

SandboxAQ is a company developing quantitative AI and quantum-inspired technologies to solve real-world problems across drug discovery, materials science, cybersecurity, and navigation. They build large quantitative models (LQMs) grounded in physics and chemistry to predict molecular properties, accelerate therapeutic design, and simulate complex chemical and catalytic processes, while also applying their expertise in AI and post-quantum cryptography to enhance digital security and navigation in GPS-denied environments.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end Catalysis product strategy, vision, and roadmap • Serve as product owner for catalysis within SandboxAQ's $500M CHIPS Act R&D award • Translate contractual objectives into product requirements and external fulfilment • Partner with Program Managers to ensure successful milestone delivery • Build the commercial foundation for catalysis as a product-led business generating recurring revenue • Work with Application Scientists and Business Development to understand customer needs • Synthesize field insights, application benchmarking data, and market feedback into customer personas and performance drivers • Translate customer insights into prioritized product requirements and specifications • Translate catalysis objectives into a vertical roadmap and evidence packages for Fulfillment Notices to the U.S. Department of Commerce • Define dataset, model, chemical coverage, fidelity, and benchmarking requirements with scientific and ML teams • Drive the roadmap from property and energetics prediction toward reaction-level modelling • Quantify customer value including yield, selectivity, catalyst life, energy efficiency, and emissions improvements • Equip Go-to-Market, Application Science, and Business Development teams with value propositions, value models, and commercialization strategies • Contribute to customer segmentation, offer scope, packaging, and pricing models • Build and manage strategic product-level partner relationships • Translate partner requirements into product features • Define and track product and commercial KPIs, including model accuracy, workflow adoption, segment expansion, and recurring revenue growth • Drive course corrections against OKRs • Develop and defend build-vs-buy and build-vs-partner recommendations • Serve as the primary product voice for catalysis to program stakeholders, ecosystem partners, and prospective customers • Define shared capabilities versus market-specific roadmap components

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in product management, including ownership of a technically deep product sold to external customers • Ability to operate in product capacity within software- and service-oriented business models • Strong domain grounding in materials science, catalysis, chemistry, or chemical engineering • Ability to engage computational scientists, experimental validation partners, and domain SMEs credibly • Track record shipping AI/ML-driven scientific or engineering software to external, paying or contracted users • Experience shipping products where the ICP was not clearly understood or demand generation and funnel were not already in place • Experience contributing to scope of offer, packaging, and pricing decisions for technical software, or clear commercial instinct to do so • Ability to engage computational scientists and industrial, refining, chemical, or equipment OEM partners • Ability to translate partner requirements into product requirements • Ability to reason commercially across multiple end markets, size opportunities using evidence, and sequence market entry • Comfort navigating deep ambiguity and translating unclear scientific and customer problems into structured roadmaps, success criteria, and measurable outcomes • Ownership mindset and rigorous operational execution track record • Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or Materials Science or equivalent practical experience • Experience in one or more major catalysis end markets (highly desired) • Familiarity with computational chemistry workflows such as density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics, or microkinetic modelling (highly desired) • Semiconductor or electronic materials process chemistry experience (highly desired) • Familiarity with homogeneous or solution-phase catalysis and heterogeneous surface chemistry (highly desired) • Understanding of machine-learned interatomic potentials, spin polarization in transition-metal systems, and evaluation of ML models against experimental or first-principles reference data (highly desired) • Track record building product-led growth motions for technical or scientific software (highly desired) • Prior product or business development engagement with catalyst manufacturers, chemical producers, refiners, or semiconductor ecosystem partners (highly desired) • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, API governance, and enterprise security and compliance requirements (highly desired) • Advanced degree in Computational Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Catalysis, Materials Science, or a related field (highly desired) • Must be legally authorized to work in the country where the job is located • Cannot currently participate in foreign talent programs sponsored by China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable) • Equity participation • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions • Retirement savings with company matching • Paid parental leave • Inclusive family-building benefits • Fully remote work • Flexible paid time off • Company-wide seasonal breaks • Support for flexible work arrangements • On-the-job development • Cross-functional collaboration • Access to internal learning and development programs

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